Glossary
- Safety cushion
- Sale in the open market
- Same-day settlement
- Scalping
- Schatz future
- SDAX
- Second Quotation Board
- Secondary market
- Secondary Purchase
- Sector funds
- Sector index
- Securities
- Securities account
- Securities exchange
- Securities lending
- Securities Trading Act
- Seed phase
- Semiannual report (funds)
- Sensitivity (warrants)
- Settlement
- Share
- Share buy-back
- Share price (funds)
- Shareholder
- Shareholder rights
- Shareholder value
- Shareholders' record
- Shareholders record
- Shareholders' right to request information
- Sharpe ratio
- Shell corporation
- Short-dates bond
- Short position
- Short sale
- Single cash price
- Small cap
- SMAX
- Special fund
- Specialists
- Spezialized fund
- Spot market
- Spread
- Spread certificate
- Spread Certificates
- Squeeze-out
- Standard deviation
- Startup company
- Startup phase
- Steady
- Stock corporation
- Stock cycle
- Stock exchange
- Stock Exchange Act (Börsengesetz)
- Stock exchange monopoly
- Stock index
- Stock market
- Stock market analysis
- Stock market crash
- Stock option
- Stock option plan
- Stock price
- Stock split
- Stop-buy order
- Stop-limit order
- Stop-loss order
- Stop-market order
- Stop-sell order
- STOXX
- STOXX Europe 50
- STOXX indices
- Strike Price
- Subscription period
- Subscription rights
- Support buying
- Support line
- Suspended
- SWAP
- Switch
- Syndicate
- Syndicate bank
- Synthetic bonds
Share
A security that represents a unit of ownership in a company.
Shares, which are issued by stock corporations, consist of a certificate and a dividend coupon sheet with renewal coupons. The bearer or owner of a share, called a shareholder, owns part of the company's capital stock, indicated either as a percentage of the total share capital or as a par value that is printed on the share certificate. The rights vested in the shares are regulated by the German Stock Corporation Act and the company's charter. Basic shareholder rights include:the right to attend the annual general meeting the right to receive a share of the company's profits the right to subscribe to new shares the right to demand information the right to a share of winding-up revenues. Shares are classified according to various criteria, such as the way in which the capital stock is divided up, the fungibility of the shares, or the type of rights attached to the shares:par value shares vs. no-par value shares bearer shares vs. registered shares (or registered shares with restricted transferability) ordinary shares vs. preferred shares.