Equities – MoneyWeek Glossary

Equities, shares and stocks are all names for the individual units that give you a financial interest in a company.

Equities, shares and stocks are all names for the individual units that give you a financial interest in a company. The terms are often used in slightly different ways. For example, investors sometimes refer to shares when discussing a single company, shares or stocks when they talk about a small or loose group of companies and equities when they mean more formally defined groups (or when they just want to sound more professional). But those distinctions are not absolute and all three words will often be used interchangeably.

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