Glossary
- Call (warrant)
- Cancelled order
- Cap (investment and leverage products)
- Capital increase
- Capital market
- Capital reduction
- Capital stock
- Cash dividend
- Cash market
- Cash settlement (warrants)
- Cash settlement price
- Cashflow
- CDAX
- Central bank
- Certificate
- Certificate of renewal
- Changes to the composition of an index
- Chart
- Chart analysis
- Classic All Share
- Clearing
- Close out
- Closed-end fund
- Closing Price
- Coco bond
- Collective custody
- Commercial paper
- Commission
- Commission trading
- Commodity futures
- Commodity futures exchange
- Common gap
- Compliance guidelines
- Conditional capital increase
- Consumer Confidence
- Continuous trading
- Convertible bond
- Cooperative stock exchanges
- Corporate bond
- Correlation coefficient
- Counter transaction
- Countercyclical investment
- Countercyclical stocks
- Country risk
- Coupon
- Covered warrant
- Creation
- Credit risk
- Creditworthiness
- Cum
- Currency bond
- Cyclical shares
- Cyclical stocks
Capital stock
Total number of shares authorized by the charter of a stock corporation.
In Germany, the nominal or stated value of a corporation's capital stock must be at least €50,000. It is divided into par shares or no-par shares. If the company undertakes an ordinary or simple capital write-down, the value of the capital stock can temporarily drop below this minimum level. However, a capital write-down with this consequence will be approved only if the company plans to meet the minimum requirement through a subsequent capital increase.
The increase or reduction of a corporation's capital stock is subject to approval by the annual general meeting. Regulations on the minimum capital stock requirement are contained in the German Stock Corporation Act, sections 7 and 228.
Synonyms: subscribed capital
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