How much of the business your one share buys depends on the total common stock outstanding, a figure you can easily determine using the company's balance sheet. Image source: Getty Images.

You can find information about a company's common stock in its balance sheet. Image source: Getty Images. Simply put, each share of common stock represents a share of ownership in a company.

In a regulatory filing, Coupang (CPNG) disclosed that its CFO Gaurav Anand sold 75.4K shares of common stock on March 10th in a total ...

Shutterstock shareholders can choose to receive either approximately $28.85 per share in cash for each share of Shutterstock common stock they own; about 13.67 shares of Getty Images common stock ...

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.