Common Stock
The standard form of company ownership, carrying voting rights and a residual claim on profits via dividends and growth.
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Stock Splits: Share Counts, Prices and Ownership
Work through forward and reverse stock splits, reconcile share counts and ownership, and separate mechanical price adjustments from investment returns.
Buybacks
How and why a company buys back its own shares: how repurchases shrink the outstanding count and lift per-share figures, why buybacks are an alternative to dividends, the mechanics (open-market and tender offers), the difference between treasury and cancelled shares, and the serious criticisms — buybacks at high prices, debt-funded repurchases, and masking stock-comp dilution.
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