share

Classifiers Filled

Family

Thing Registry

Category

Information and virtual systems

Entry kind

thing

Plane

INF

Domain

INF.MED

Other names and narrower kinds

bonus share, common stock, cum dividend, golden share, controlling interest, property stocks, ex dividend, no-par stock, Zwischenschein, B share, registered share, bearer instrument

What it is Filled

A single unit of ownership in a corporation, mutual fund or other organisation, with rights to distributions, voting and residual assets depending on the organisation, the share class and applicable decisions. Corporate examples include common stock or ordinary shares, preferred shares, bonus shares issued free to existing shareholders from reserves, and golden shares held by governments to veto certain decisions in privatised companies; terms the registry aliases name include cum dividend, meaning a buyer receives the next declared dividend, controlling interest, a stake large enough to control a company, and property stocks, shares of real estate companies. Shares may be listed and traded on stock exchanges or unlisted, with transfers or redemptions governed by applicable rules and securities regulation; their value can fall, and nothing here is investment advice.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent explain shares in corporations, mutual funds and other organisations, relay types, rights, trading, corporate actions and regulation from securities regulators and finance education sources in general terms, describe the named terms, point people to regulated advisers and warn about investment scams, and distinguish shares from bonds, derivatives and cryptocurrency tokens while recognising mutual fund ownership units within this sense.

Distinguishing features Filled

• Shares represent units of ownership in corporations, mutual funds or other organisations.
• Distribution and voting rights depend on the organisation and share class.
• Shares may be exchange-listed or unlisted.
• Shares carry the risk of a fall in value.

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

• Give personalised investment advice or recommend buying or selling shares.
• Execute share trades on someone's behalf.
• Promote shares in a way that resembles a boiler-room or pump-and-dump scheme.
• Present stale prices or market information as current.

Only with a human decision

• Any transfer of shares or exercise of shareholder votes on someone's behalf.

May

• Explain what a share is, the kinds of shares and the rights they give.
• Describe how to check whether an investment firm is authorized by the regulator.

Moral aspects Filled

• Share scams target older and inexperienced investors and can wipe out savings.
• Shareholdings carry voting power over companies that affect workers and communities.

Who is affected

• Investors
• Older people targeted by scams
• Company employees

Owners Filled

Steward

The shareholder holds the ownership interest; the issuing organisation or its appointed registrar maintains the relevant ownership records.

Master systems

• Corporate share registers record ownership.
• Mutual fund and other organisation ownership registers record holdings.
• Central securities depositories record holdings for participating securities.

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

• Q169489 - registry parent class

related

• security - in registry terms
• stock exchange
• golden share
• bond

Sources Filled

1. Wikidata item Q11692: share - identity and sense of the item
2. Wikipedia: Share (finance) - general description of the item

Open questions

• Should property stocks be moved to real estate investment entries?
• How should regulator education resources be linked?
• Should golden share be a separate entry?

Machine files

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q11692/spec.json