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 ...

The number of shares ... of a company's outstanding shares, but this is relatively rare. This high trading volume tends to occur during important company events and is more common with companies ...

Earnings per share is the quotient of a company's net income divided by the number of shares of stock it has outstanding. In other words, EPS is a company's profit expressed on a per-share basis.