These articles will teach you perhaps more than you ever wanted to know about publicly traded stocks, including a basic discussion (what is stock?), how to find out what an old stock certificate is worth, how a stock index is computed, and what happens when a stock splits the day after you purchase it, just to name a few.
- Basics
- American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)
- Cyclicals
- Dividends
- Dramatic Price Changes
- Exchange-Traded Funds and Unit Investment Trusts
- Holding Company Depositary Receipts (HOLDRs)
- Income and Royalty Trusts
- Types of Indexes
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Other Indexes
- Market Volatility Index (VIX)
- Investor Rights Movement
- Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
- Mergers
- Market Capitalization
- Outstanding Shares and Float
- Preferred Shares
- Price Basis
- Price Tables in Newspapers
- Price Data
- Replacing Lost Certificates
- Repurchasing by Companies
- Researching the Value of Old Certificates
- Reverse Mergers
- Shareholder Rights Plan
- Splits
- Tracking Stock
- Warrants