{"id":3944,"date":"2023-03-10T19:20:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/issued-outstanding-securities\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:20:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:20:59","slug":"issued-outstanding-securities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/issued-outstanding-securities\/","title":{"rendered":"Issued Outstanding Securities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\u2018Issued shares\u2019 are the total shares issued by a company. These shares are held by its shareholders and investors as well as large institutions.<br \/>\n\u2018Outstanding shares\u2019 are referred to Issued shares without including the \u2018Treasury shares\u2019.<br \/>\nA company places some shares in reserve for its future use and may add shares to this reserve through \u2018buybacks\u2019. These shares are known as \u2018Treasury Shares\u2019. A company\u2019s Outstanding shares are arrived at by subtracting the Treasury shares from Issued shares.<\/p>\n<h2>Differences between Issued and Outstanding shares<\/h2>\n<p>Some differences between Issued and Outstanding shares are:<br \/>\n1. Issued shares are the total shares issued by the company, whereas outstanding shares are the shares with the shareholders, without including the shares repurchased by the company.<br \/>\n2. Issued shares include shares held in treasury, while outstanding shares do not include treasury stock.<br \/>\n3. The number of outstanding shares are used to calculate the Earnings per Share (EPS), while Issued shares do not give a true picture of a company\u2019s financial health.<br \/>\n4. The outstanding shares are less than or equal to Issued shares. These cannot be more than issued shares but can be equivalent to them when there is no treasury stock.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Issued shares\u2019 are the total shares issued by a company. These shares are held by its shareholders and investors as well as large institutions. \u2018Outstanding shares\u2019 are referred to Issued shares without including the \u2018Treasury shares\u2019. A company places some shares in reserve for its future use and may add shares to this reserve through [&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-3944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","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=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}