It's a simple question – what is common stock? – but it's a good one. It's the first step in getting to know what you're buying in the stock market. And it's important that you as an investor know ...

Preferred stock is a little-known type of investment that combines the qualities of both bonds and common stocks. Preferred shares don't generate nearly the kind of excitement that common shares do.

Any investor who has purchased or has considered purchasing shares of Google and YouTube parent company Alphabet Inc. (ticker: GOOG, GOOGL) in recent years has likely noticed there are two paths to ...

EPS, which stands for earnings per share, represents a company's annualized net profit divided by the number of common shares of stock it has outstanding. Because it's a measure of profitability on a ...