{"id":3860,"date":"2023-03-16T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/capital-stock\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:20:03","slug":"capital-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/capital-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCapital stock means the common as well as preferred shares which a company can issue as per its articles of association. It is the authorised share capital of a company that it is permitted to issue to the public. Outstanding shares are part of the Capital stock of the company.<\/p>\n<h2>Features of Capital Stock<\/h2>\n<p>Features of Capital Stock are:<br \/>\na) The number of shares a company can issue as decided by its Board of Directors.<br \/>\nb) The company keeps a record of all its shareholders.<br \/>\nc) A company\u2019s Capital stock is valued at the Face value of shares issued. Face value or Par value is assigned at the time of issuance of shares.<\/p>\n<h2>Use of Capital Stock<\/h2>\n<p>Some uses of Capital Stock are:<br \/>\na) Capital stock is issued for raising funds.<br \/>\nb) It does not increase the debt but can be used for business expansion.<br \/>\nc) In the process of issuing Capital Stock, a company dilutes its stake.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital stock means the common as well as preferred shares which a company can issue as per its articles of association. It is the authorised share capital of a company that it is permitted to issue to the public. Outstanding shares are part of the Capital stock of the company. Features of Capital Stock Features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}