Stock is a representation of capital paid or invested into a business entity by stockholders.

Stock may also refer to:

Places

People

Arts, entertainment, and media

Biology

Animals

  • Stock (cage), a stall or cage used to restrain livestock
  • Fish stock, semi-discrete subpopulations of a particular species of fish
  • Foundation stock, individual or general type of horses used as the foundation animals that create a new breed or bloodline
  • Livestock, animals kept for agricultural purposes
  • Stock fish, a type of dried fish product

People

  • Old Stock Americans, descendants of the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies, of mostly British ancestry, who colonized America in the 17th and the 18th centuries
  • Racial stock, an obsolete term referring to racial groups

Plants

Brands and enterprises

  • Stock (publishing house), a French publisher and subsidiary of Hachette Livre, which itself is part of the Lagardère Group
  • Elliot Stock, a London publisher of the works of, among others, William Blades
  • Stock Spirits, a Polish company established in 1884
  • Stock Transportation, a Canadian school bus operator
  • Stock (supermarket), an Paraguayan supermarket chain

Economics

  • Stock (also capital stock) of a corporation, all of the shares into which ownership of the corporation is divided
  • Stock (variable), in economics, business, or accounting, a variable measured at one specific time
  • STOCK Act, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading
  • Stock in trade or inventory, a supply of goods or materials held in storage by a business or household
  • Tally stick § Split tally, in ancient financial accounting, the part of a split tally stick used as a receipt in a transaction

Clothing

  • Military stock, a leather collar issued to Napoleonic-era soldiers
  • Stock tie, a tie worn around the neck of a competitor riding in an equestrian event

Other uses

  • Stock (firearms), a part of a gun which interfaces with the shoulder or hand
  • Stock (food), a liquid flavoring base for soups and sauces
  • Stock (geology), an igneous rock formation
  • Stock, a type of changeling, a mythical creature
  • Card stock, a type of paper
  • Cattle catch or stocks, a move in some martial arts and wrestling
  • Infant bed, for sleeping babies, rarely called a stock
  • Label stock, a carrier for a label
  • Rolling stock, the vehicles that move on a railway
  • Stocks, a device for punishment or torture
  • Stöckli, sometimes called Stock, a traditional agricultural building in Switzerland and parts of Germany
  • Stock (dominoes), in dominoes, the tiles not picked up at the start which may be drawn later.
  • Bar stock, a common form of raw purified metal

See also

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