Stock (disambiguation)

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Stock is a representation of capital paid or invested into a business entity by stockholders.

Stock may also refer to:

People

Arts, entertainment, and media

Biology

Animals

  • Stock (cage), a stall or cage used to restrain livestock
  • Fish stock, semi-discrete subpopulations of a particular species of fish
  • Foundation stock, individual or general type of horses used as the foundation animals that create a new breed or bloodline
  • Livestock, animals kept for agricultural purposes
  • Stock fish, a type of dried fish product

People

  • Old Stock Americans, descendants of the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies, of mostly British ancestry, who colonized America in the 17th and the 18th centuries
  • Racial stock, an obsolete term referring to racial groups

Plants

Brands and enterprises

Economics

  • Stock (also capital stock) of a corporation, all of the shares into which ownership of the corporation is divided
  • Stock (variable), in economics, business, or accounting, a variable measured at one specific time
  • STOCK Act, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading
  • Stock in trade or inventory, a supply of goods or materials held in storage by a business or household
  • Tally stick § Split tally, in ancient financial accounting, the part of a split tally stick used as a receipt in a transaction

Clothing

Other uses

See also

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