ordinary share
noun[C]
ukus(UKalsocommon share)FINANCE,STOCK MARKET
ashareof acompanyprovidingtheownerwith arighttovoteatshareholdermeetingsand toreceiveapartof thecompanyprofitsas adividend
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preferred share
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ordinary share
Anordinarysharegives the right to its owner to share in the profits of the company (dividends) and to vote at general meetings of the company.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For simplicity a single indicator of interest rates representing the average rate offered by building societies onordinaryshareaccounts is used.
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For that reason, we suggest that the relationship should be to capital employed and not simply toordinarysharecapital.
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One of the big arguments for the small savings campaign is that the small person cannot afford the risk of anordinaryshare.
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Theordinarysharecapital of a company does not by any means necessarily provide a real test of the value of its revenue producing assets.
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A company and a subsidiary in which it holds at least 75 per cent. of theordinarysharecapital may be treated as a group.
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Further, it may benefit a company to have raised loan capital in the past instead ofordinarysharecapital.
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It sets that at a minimum of 10 per cent. of theordinarysharecapital, which must be held by the trustees in one year.
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I do not think that that applies toordinarysharetransactions for the investor or speculator.
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This accounts for the hundreds of millions of pounds which have been distributed inordinarysharedividends since 1950.
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