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Stock is a part of the ownership of a joint-stock company and a certificate of ownership issued by a joint-stock company. It is a kind of securities issued by a joint-stock company to all kinds of shareholders, as a shareholding certificate to obtain dividends and bonuses.
Stocks are long-term credit instruments in the capital market and can be transferred and traded. With it, shareholders can share the company's profits, but also bear the risks brought by the company's business mistakes. Each share represents the shareholder's ownership of the basic unit of the enterprise. Every listed company will issue shares.
Every stock in the same category represents the equal ownership of the company. The share of ownership of the company owned by each shareholder depends on the proportion of shares held by each shareholder to the total share capital of the company. Stock is an integral part of the capital of a joint-stock company and can be transferred and traded. It is the main long-term credit tool in the capital market, but the company cannot be required to return its capital contribution.
The official name of A shares is RMB common stock. It is common stock issued by me and domestic companies for domestic institutions, organizations or individuals (excluding investors from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao) to subscribe and trade in RMB. After several years of rapid development, China A-share market has begun to take shape.
The official name of B shares is RMB special shares, which are denominated in RMB, subscribed and traded in foreign currency, and listed and traded on domestic (Shanghai, Shenzhen) stock exchanges. Its investors are limited to foreign natural persons, legal persons and other organizations, natural persons, legal persons and other organizations in Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan Province Province, and China citizens who have settled abroad.
H shares, that is, foreign shares registered in the mainland and listed in Hong Kong. The English of HOngKOng is Hong Kong, and the foreign shares listed in Hong Kong are called H shares. N shares refer to foreign shares registered in Chinese mainland and listed in new york.
Common stock refers to the shares that enjoy common rights in the company's operation and management, profit and property distribution, and represents the right to claim the profits and remaining property of the enterprise after meeting the requirements of full repayment of creditor's rights and the income and creditor's rights of priority shareholders.