A share is an economic part of the capital of a corporation or company.
In business economics and finance, each of the aliquots of the economic and social capital of an institution are economic shares that are sold and bought by those individuals called shareholders who wish to own property over the company.
The shares as such provide economic and political rights to the holder, among them, the participation in the economic profits of the company, the right to information regarding the economic course of the institution, the right to speak and vote at the shareholders' meeting, the possibility of freely assigning their shares to others, the right to withdraw and the preferential option when acquiring new available shares.
The shares are represented as bearer title, registered title, public deed or book entry. All of them comprising different acquisition and sale alternatives.
In turn, the shares can be classified as common, preferred, limited voting, convertible, industrial, free of payment, with nominal value, without nominal value and other possibilities.
A share, basically, understands a vote of confidence about the good future of a company and, as such, it does not include an investment with an established fixed return, but the income is variable according to the operation of the institution in the stock exchange. Actions. The fluctuation of the shares is reflected in the stock market on a daily basis and, due to the high variability of the economy of the companies and the countries, they comprise a share of risk and mobility that can alternatively result in benefit or harm to the bearer, depending on periods of bonanza or crisis.
Although the economy is a reason for study, research , planning and constant speculation, there is an important aspect of chance or arbitrary in the future of the stock market.