Stock Market Vocabulary

4. The type of stock that generally does not have voting rights, not trades on an exchange, but gets preferential treatment in dividends and payouts.
8. How many shares of stock are out in the market being bought and sold.
10. Contains the most essential information for buying/selling a stock, commodity, etc.
13. The person who actually makes the trade for you.
14. A unique one to five letter code used to identify a publicly traded company.
16. Either a financial pay out or additional issuing of stock for whomever owns a share.
17. Owning a variety of investments.
19. There are 52 weeks in this period.
20. A new issue of stock when a private company decides to go public.

1. Where buyers and sellers come together and the buyers try to get an item for as low a price as possible and the sellers try to sell an item for as high as possible.
2. A group of companies that are engaged in similar businesses.
3. How much buyers in the real market are willing to pay for this stock.
5. A promise that a company makes to pay you back with interest.
6. The lowest price a seller is willing to sell the stock.
7. A share of ownership in a company.
9. To make sure a variety of stocks are purchased in different sectors and/or stocks for greater stability in investments.
11. How many shares of a stock were bought or sold since the last market open.
12. A person who gives money to a brokerage in return for a share of the company.
13. A dividend that is 20% or larger.
15. How much the stock price changed in the last trading day.
18. The most available kind of stock that generally gives one vote at a shareholder meeting.