Stock
A unit of ownership in a company. Holding a stock (or share) makes you a part-owner, with a claim on a portion of the company's assets and profits.
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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.
Dividends
The income side of owning shares: what dividends are, how dividend yield and the payout ratio work, the key dates (declaration, ex-dividend, record, payment), why reinvesting them supercharges compounding, the difference between growth and income investing, and why dividends are never guaranteed.
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