Share

How it is used

The basic counting unit of ownership: you buy 100 shares, a company issues new shares, and the share price changes during the day. British texts prefer 'shares' where Americans often say 'stock'. Official Turkish documents use 'pay', while everyday speech uses 'hisse'.

Example sentences

1. I bought 200 shares of the airline when the price dropped below 250 lira.

2. The company will issue 50 million new shares to finance the expansion.

Common collocations

• buy shares
• issue shares
• share price
• number of shares
• shares outstanding

Related terms

• stockA type of investment that gives you a small part of the ownership of a company. People also use the word for the shares of one particular company.
• shareholderA person or organisation that owns one or more shares in a company and therefore owns part of it, with rights such as voting and receiving dividends.
• share priceThe amount of money one share of a company costs on the market at a given moment, set by the orders of buyers and sellers.
• equityOwnership in a company in the form of shares. In accounting, it also means the value left for shareholders after all debts are subtracted from the assets.
• IPOShort for initial public offering: the first time a private company sells its shares to the public and lists them on a stock exchange.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• share · Social Media & Content Creation

More terms: Stocks & Shares

• ticker symbol
• blue-chip stock
• listed company
• free float
• growth stock
• small-cap