How to Use common stock in a Sentence

common stock

noun
  • Any such sales could cause the price of our common stock to decline further.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • This ignores that there are other sources of funds aside from common stock.
    — Clifford Asness, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Shareholders of its common stock won’t be that lucky, though.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 5 July 2020
  • Each unit consists of one share of Class A common stock and one right.
    — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The move, if approved, would increase the common stock to 4 billion shares.
    — Molly Schuetz, Bloomberg.com, 21 May 2021
  • There are simple solutions to the most common stock tank pool problems.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 23 May 2022
  • The value of common stock is tied to the business’ performance.
    — Kaitlyn Koterbski, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Deals that devalue shares of common stock are not out of the ordinary, Cote said.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Holders of two-thirds of Tribune common stock not owned by Alden must approve the sale.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The takeover offer is split evenly between cash and GameStop common stock.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • The mobile phone service provider also expects to buy back about $8 billion of common stock this year.
    — Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Grace’s common stock will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
    — Christopher Dinsmore, baltimoresun.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Prince owns over 29 million shares of Cloudflare common stock, worth well over $3 billion.
    — Stockstory Team, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The two chipmakers finished the quarter as Duquesne's second- and third-largest common stock holdings.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Hinge Health’s dual class stock structure gives each share of Class B common stock 15 votes.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Chevron plans intends to issue about 301 million shares of common stock as part of the transaction.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 19 July 2025
  • Perhaps the biggest culprits in kitchen cabinetry are common stock items, such as cleaning supplies and trash bags.
    — Sheila Kim, The Spruce, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The $81 million deal is mostly being paid with Tempus common stock.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But only about half its portfolio is made up of common stocks—the rest is a blend of convertible securities and high-yield bonds.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • 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 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
  • This includes Nvidia buying $5 billion worth of Intel common stock.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Riley, who owns 24% of the common stock, later made an offer to take the company private at $7 a share.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Roughly $900 million of the purchase was funded through sales of Class A common stock.
    — Melos Ambaye, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Now, under its new owners, EA’s common stock has stopped trading and will be delisted from Nasdaq.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • Grindr surged in mid-October after shareholders who own more than 60% of the common stock floated the buyout idea.
    — Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Part of the Intel agreement has Nvidia buying $5 billion in Intel common stock.
    — Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The company's common stock ceased trading and was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2019

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