A sectoral index is a stock market index that tracks the performance of companies within a specific industry or sector, such as banking, information technology, pharmaceuticals,…
Free float refers to the portion of a company's total outstanding shares that are actually available…
Lot size refers to the fixed, standardized minimum quantity of an underlying asset represented by a…
Listing price refers to the price at which a company's shares begin trading on a stock…
A Follow-on Public Offer, commonly abbreviated as FPO, is when an already publicly listed company issues additional shares to raise further capital…
A rights issue is a method companies use to raise additional capital by offering existing shareholders the right to purchase new shares,…
A share buyback, or share repurchase, occurs when a company purchases its own outstanding shares from the market, reducing the total number…
A stock split is a corporate action where a company divides its existing shares into multiple shares, increasing the total number of…
Bonus shares are additional shares issued by a company to its existing shareholders at no extra cost, in a fixed ratio to…
Face value, also called nominal or par value, is the fixed value assigned to a share at the time a company issues…
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