Common stock outstanding means all the shares of stock owned by investors and company insiders. The SEC requires this information to be shown on a company's balance sheet. When you buy stock in a ...

You can find information about a company's common stock in its balance sheet. Image source: Getty Images. Simply put, each share of common stock represents a share of ownership in a company.

Issuance of common ... their balance sheets. This information is critical for evaluating dilution and shareholder equity. Consider a company decides to issue 1,000,000 shares of common stock ...