How to Use common stock in a Sentence

common stock

noun

• The move, if approved, would increase the common stock to 4 billion shares.
  — Molly Schuetz, Bloomberg.com, 21 May 2021
• Grace’s common stock will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  — Christopher Dinsmore, baltimoresun.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• During his tenure, Musk won’t be able to own more than 14.9% of common stock.
  — Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2022
• The Mountain Crest deal also includes the sale of $50 million in common stock at $10 a share.
  — John J Edwards Iii, Bloomberg.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• This follows a 1-for-30 reverse split of its common stock on Dec. 1.
  — Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022
• This ignores that there are other sources of funds aside from common stock.
  — Clifford Asness, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• Holders of two-thirds of Tribune common stock not owned by Alden must approve the sale.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• The value of common stock is tied to the business’ performance.
  — Kaitlyn Koterbski, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022
• Each owns a special class of shares that entitle them to 10 times the voting rights of the common stock Robinhood plans to sell in the IPO.
  — Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 19 July 2021
• Until then, shares of common stock, to use a precise though rarely used term, may have less and less in common.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• Shareholders of its common stock won’t be that lucky, though.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 5 July 2020
• Deals that devalue shares of common stock are not out of the ordinary, Cote said.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
• John Hess controls roughly 10% of the company’s common stock and will take a seat on Chevron’s board at the conclusion of the deal.
  — Mitchell Ferman, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• The oil producer slashed its common stock dividend in March for the first time in three decades as the plunge in oil prices weighed on the company.
  — Fortune, 2 May 2020
• The shares are common stock, with no extra voting power.
  — Bloomberg.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• The biggest news to emerge from it was that shareholders had approved a 3-for-1 split of the company’s common stock.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022
• The company's common stock ceased trading and was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.
  — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2019
• True, last year, investors denied the company the chance to issue more common stock.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• TD Bank’s voting stake will be capped at 9.9%, with the balance of its position held in a new, non-voting class of Schwab common stock.
  — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• There are simple solutions to the most common stock tank pool problems.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 23 May 2022
• The transaction is valued at $9.86 per share of Zynga common stock.
  — Michelle Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• Blackstone will emerge from the IPO with 73% voting control of the company’s two classes of common stock, the filing said.
  — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2021
• Upon completion of the deal, Vizio’s Class A common stock will no longer be publicly listed.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
• So shareholders of record on August 21 will get a dividend of four extra shares of common stock for each share held at the time.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2020
• Becker wasn't the only member of SVB's top brass to sell company common stocks.
  — Ali Dukakis, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, the streaming platform noted a new $10 billion share buyback program for its common stock.
  — Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2023
• The company also planned to start a repurchase program of up to $1.5 billion in of the Concho’s shares of common stock, the release read.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2019
• The run-up in common stock prices in the late 1990s, fueled by the internet and a technology boom, was one of the great bull markets in history.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2021
• The hedge fund, which holds 10% of Southwest's common stock, has threatened a proxy fight to carry out wholesale changes to company leadership.
  — Shivansh Tiwary and Rajesh Kumar Singh, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
• The initial tranche of that investment was completed on Friday, with the Canadian bank buying $800 million of KeyCorp common stock.
  — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024