common stock

noun

: stock other than preferred stock

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However, Strategy has seen the value of its common stock plunge along with the bitcoin price over the last year, losing around 80% of its value. — Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026 Now, under its new owners, EA’s common stock has stopped trading and will be delisted from Nasdaq. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026 As part of that arrangement, AMD issued OpenAI a warrant for up to 160 million shares of AMD common stock, equivalent to roughly 10% of the company, with vesting milestones tied to both deployment volume and AMD's share price. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 22 July 2026 Meanwhile, on April 22, Netflix’s board authorized the repurchase of an additional $25 billion of common stock, in a bid to boost the share price. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 16 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for common stock

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First Known Use

1852, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of common stock was in 1852

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