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Definition of Common shares
1. Noun. Stock other than preferred stock; entitles the owner to a share of the corporation's profits and a share of the voting power in shareholder elections. "Over 40 million Americans invest in common stocks"
Generic synonyms: Stock
Specialized synonyms: Blue Chip, Blue-chip Stock, Classified Stock, Stock Of Record
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Shares
Literary usage of Common shares
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Materials of Corporation Finance by Charles William Gerstenberg (1915)
"Shares hereunder shall be of the par value of one hundred ($100.00) dollars each,
and shall be divided into preferred and common shares. ..."
2. The Statutory and Case Law Applicable to Private Companies: With Special by New Jersey (1901)
"Save as hereinabove provided, the holders of preferred and common shares shall
have equal voting powers at all meetings of the stockholders. ARTICLE IV. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Modern Law of Corporations: With Reference to Formation by Arthur W. Machen (1908)
"For if it be sound, the common shares have one very important preference over
the so-called preferred shares, although the language used nowhere exhibited ..."
4. The Statutory and Case Law Applicable to Private Companies, with Special by James Brooks Dill, Frank White, Frank Cowen McKinney (1911)
"Save as hereinabove provided, the holders of preferred and common shares shall
have equal voting powers at all meetings of the stockholders. Form 303. ..."
5. Oil and Gas Rights on the Public Domain and on Private Lands: Discovery and by Robert Stewart Morrison, Emilio Dominguez De Soto (1920)
"At any time the shareholders may at an annual or special meeting, by a vote of
two-thirds of the common shares outstanding, order the trustees to proceed to ..."
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