Talk:Preferred stock
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Confusing description
"any combination of features not possessed by common stock including properties of both an equity and a debt instrument, and is generally considered a hybrid instrument": this description is completely useless to someone, like me, who doesn't already know all about stocks. Can the introduction be rewritten to be comprehensible to laymen? MirkMeister (talk) 09:52, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Mobile view
Is it just me or is the mobile view of this article screwed up? This is the first Wikipedia article that I've encountered that didn't have sections hidden from view and accessible from drop-down arrows. 2600:1:D413:C317:42F6:3080:F8EC:8CBE (talk) 08:46, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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If only financial institutions can buy preferred stock - could you list what a financial institution is defined as ( ie banks, ??? What is the yield difference between preferred and common under different scenarios - good times bad times, recession, depression, bankruptcy, etc Thanks 2601:181:8301:4510:1450:8C41:5914:AE0D (talk) 05:18, 6 February 2018 (UTC) 0.
Merge proposal
I propose merging Monthly income preferred stock into Preferred stock. I think the content in 'Monthly income preferred stock' can easily be explained in the context of this article, and merging them would not cause any article-size or weighting problems. Duncnbiscuit (talk) 21:40, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
- This has gone uncontested for two months so I've carried out the merge. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 02:07, 14 March 2026 (UTC)