Stock Certificate

A physical document that gives the person or company listed a portion of ownership in a publicly-traded company. Stock certificates often contain a great deal of information, such as the owner's name, a right attached to the ownership (such as a warrant), or something else entirely. Stock certificates are vitally important as one may use them in court to prove a fact alleged.

share certificate

a document which is issued to a SHAREHOLDER in a company which serves as proof of ownership of SHARES in the company. See TRANSFER DEED.

share certificate

a document that is issued to a SHAREHOLDER in a company and that serves as proof of ownership of SHARES in the company.

Collins Dictionary of Economics, 4th ed. © C. Pass, B. Lowes, L. Davies 2005

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Account holders selling before the end of the year are charged pounds 10 and people with share certificates pounds 13.

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Rangers reacted with bemusement after Ibrox hate figures Charles Green and Brian Stockbridge's names were found on the club's new share certificates.

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You kept the share certificate with your other papers and forgot to demat it even when it was made mandatory.

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About 1.4m HBOS private shareholders (the majority) do not have a share certificate but instead hold their shares through the HBOS Shareholder Account (a nominee account), as a customer of Halifax Share Dealing or in the HBOS Share ISA.

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TO find out if an old share certificate has any value, you'll need to contact the company's registrars, which maintain the lists of shareholders.

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They are charging pounds 45 plus postage and packaging for a framed share certificate - yet Celtic's shares are priced at 82p, while a Rangers share costs pounds 2.05.

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The purchase is then registered with the company whose shares you have bought and you are issued with a share certificate in your name.

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With the clock ticking, Michael remembers his father owned shares in the bank, which might provide a solution to their problem - but can he find the share certificate which will provide the evidence they need to help them keep their home?

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From that time, he did not hear anything again about the shares allocation/allotment nor was a share certificate delivered to him until 2012 when he accidentally received a dividend bonus certificate issued on the shares in 2008.

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