In financial markets, a share is a unit of account for various financial instruments including stocks (ordinary or preferential), and investments in limited partnerships, and REITs. The common feature of all these is equity participation (limited in the case of preference shares).
The term stocks in the plural is often used as a synonym for shares.[1] Traditionalist demands that the plural stocks be used only when referring to stock of more than one company are rarely heard nowadays.
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