Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• STOCK ASSOCIATION - a savings and loan association that sells stock to raise capital. It is owned by th...
  
  
• STOCK BONUS PLAN - A plan used as an incentive that rewards employee performance with stock in the comp...
  
  
• STOCK BUYBACK - A corporation's purchase of its own outstanding stock, usually in order to raise the co...
  
  
• STOCK CERTIFICATE - A stock certificate is a paper document that represents ownership in a corporation....
  
  
• STOCK COMPENSATION PLAN - FRINGE BENEFIT that gives employees the option to purchase the employer's sto...
  
  
• STOCK CONSOLIDATION - The opposite of a stock split. A number of existing shares are combined into a sm...
  
  
• STOCK CONTROL ACCOUNT - reflects the total amount or value of all stock items. The balance of each of t...
  
  
• STOCK COOPERATIVE - Ownership of real property by a corporation where each stockholder is entitled to o...
  
  
• STOCK DIVIDEND - Payment of a corporate dividend in the form of stock rather than cash. The stock divid...
  
  
• STOCK EXCHANGE - A market with a trading floor where securities are bought and sold. In the United Stat...