- Industry: Financial services
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The ratio by which a corporation's number of outstanding shares of stock is adjusted on the split date when a stock split occurs. In a split, the share price becomes a fraction of the pre-split prices.
For example: If a stock par value splits 2-for-1, the number of authorised shares doubles and the price per share drops by half.
Industry:Financial services
The right to purchase or sell shares of stock at a fixed price over a specified period of time. Not applicable to employee stock option plan participants.
Industry:Financial services
For participants in employee stock option plans:
The difference between the grant price and the current market price.
Industry:Financial services
A power of attorney enabling a person other than the owner to transfer stock ownership to another party. Stock power is sometimes granted when stock is pledged as collateral for a loan.
Industry:Financial services
The total amount of cash generated through the sale of shares or the exercise of employee stock options.
Industry:Financial services
An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a company's stock, such that proportionate equity of each shareholder remains the same.
Industry:Financial services
This price is above the prevailing market price on a buy stop, or is below the prevailing market price on a sell stop. Buy stop orders are generally used to limit loss or protect unrealized profits on a short sale. A stop order becomes a market order when a stock trades at or through the stop price.
Industry:Financial services
The stated price per share for which the underlying security may be purchased (in the case of a call), or sold (in the case of a put) by the option buyer (holder) upon exercise of the option contract.
Industry:Financial services
Separated Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities. This bond, usually issued by the U.S. Treasury, whose two components, interest and principal, are separated and sold individually.
Industry:Financial services
A bond which can be bought in either a principal only (PO) or interest only (IO) package.
Industry:Financial services
