Market Cap
Market capitalisation — a company's total market value, calculated as its share price multiplied by the number of outstanding shares. The share price alone says nothing about size without the share count.
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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.
Common Stock
The ordinary shares most investors own: what common stock is, the rights it carries (voting and a residual claim on profits and assets), how you make money from it through growth and dividends, why it sits last in line, and how it differs from preferred stock.
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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