Like common stock, preferred stocks represent partial ownership in a company.

Many assessments do not represent ownership as such.

Whereas stocks represent partial ownership of a company, bonds are simply loans.

The investor syndicate led by Colony was issued new common stock representing 100% ownership of the company.

By the late 1990's, stocks had lost any connection to the value of the businesses in which they represented partial ownership.

And in any case, the food shares would still have represented ownership of the whole company, smoke and all.

The medium, or vessel, represents ownership and attached sentiments even if given to someone carrying a special note to the act.

Common shares represent ownership in a company and a claim (dividends) on a portion of profits.

By contrast, standard common shares represent economic ownership of part of the company that issued them.

They have rights and represent ownership in the corporation by the person that holds the shares.