common stock

noun

: stock other than preferred stock

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Part of the Intel agreement has Nvidia buying $5 billion in Intel common stock. Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025 As part of the partnership, AMD has issued OpenAI a warrant for up to 160 million shares of AMD common stock. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025 All of Fubo’s outstanding shares of common stock will be automatically converted into shares of the new Fubo, which will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol FUBO. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025 Perry's son, Griffin, owns about 23 percent of Fermi common stock and stands to make even more on the IPO. Fermi, which was only founded in January, is targeting such a high valuation as the boom in AI leads to a surge in interest for the data centers needed to power the technology. Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for common stock

Word History

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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“Common stock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20stock. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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