Table of Contents
- 1 How can I find out when I bought shares?
- 2 How do I find old stock purchases?
- 3 Can you look up how much stock someone owns?
- 4 How do I find out how much stock someone owns?
- 5 How do you find the number of issued shares?
- 6 How do you find the outstanding shares of common stock?
- 7 How do you find outstanding shares?
- 8 How should I determine how many shares to buy of a stock?
The trade confirmation or brokerage statement from when you purchased the stock will show the purchase date. If you no longer have the confirmation or statement, the brokerage firm that handled the purchase for you should be able to tell you the date.
How do I find old stock purchases?
Call the Financial Stock Guide Service at (800) 367-3441 and ask for the custom research department. They will be able to tell you, for a fee, whether or not your shares are active or obsolete. In business since 1927, they also publish a directory that updates annually. Go to www.spinksmythe.com or call (800) 622-1880.
Where to see how many shares are bought and sold?
Visit BigCharts (www.bigcharts.com) to obtain historical quotes that include the specific trading volume for a given day. The historical quotes on the site go back 10 years. Click the “historical quotes” tab. Enter the stock ticker symbol and the date of interest.
Where are my stocks held?
Rather, most stocks these days are held in the “street name” of the broker, rather than under the name of any particular investor. In that situation, when an investor opens an investment account, the stocks he or she buys are registered in the issuer’s books as belonging to the brokerage firm.
Can you look up how much stock someone owns?
You can find out the names of the shareholders of a public company through several resources. If you wish to find out the names of large shareholders of a public company that has filed with the SEC, you can find this information by searching EDGAR, the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System.
How do I find out how much stock someone owns?
The U.S. securities and exchange commission provides everything you need to research U.S. stocks with its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval database – better known as EDGAR. Anyone can access and download the information for free.
How do I retrieve old shares?
Recovery of Shares
- Transfer of shares after death of an original shareholder.
- Transfer of physical shares.
- Recovery of lost shares.
- Issue of duplicate shares.
- The claim of shares from IEPF.
- The claim of dividend from IEPF.
- Following up with Registrar and Transfer Agent (RTA) for transfer of shares.
Where are my shares kept?
Shares are kept in the dematerialized or electronic form in two depositories – National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) and Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL). Depositories receive shares through Depository Participants (DP) and not directly from investors.
The number of issued shares is recorded on a company’s balance sheet as capital stock, or owners’ equity, while shares outstanding (issued shares minus any shares in the treasury) are listed on the company’s quarterly filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Subtract the number of treasury stock from the issued shares to get the number of shares of common stock outstanding. So, A – B = common stock outstanding.
How do I get a stock in my name?
The easiest way to get a stock certificate is via a broker, and there’s usually a fee. The simplest way to get a stock certificate today is to ask your broker. If you bought your shares through a brokerage firm, it will have an account with your name and the number of shares you purchased.
How do I find out how many shares I own?
Check With Your Broker. Ordinarily, you can visit your broker’s website or smartphone app or give the company a call to find out what stock you own, how many shares you have of each and how much they’re worth.
To find the total number of outstanding shares, follow these steps: Go to the balance sheet of the company in question and look in the shareholders’ equity section, which is near the bottom of the report. Look in the line item for preferred stock. Look in the line item for common stock. Look in the line item for treasury stock.
The number of shares you should buy depends in part on the price of the stock you want to own. For example, if you have $2,000 to invest in stock, you could only buy 10 shares of a $200 stock. If you want to own a $10 stock, you could buy 200 shares.
How to find company market shares?
Look for research reports by appending “PDF” to your search query. This makes your search more distilled.