Shares outstanding
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Shares outstanding are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them. They have voting rights and represent ownership in the corporation by the person that holds the shares. They should be distinguished from treasury shares, which are shares held by the corporation itself, having no exercisable rights.
Shares outstanding can be calculated as either basic or fully diluted. The fully diluted shares outstanding count includes diluting securities, such as options, warrants or convertibles.
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The global financial market is naturally divided by the countries. Thus the source of shares outstanding varies from country to country. See the following examples.
[edit] United States
In the United States, the number of shares outstanding can be obtained from quarterly filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC). Whereas the quarterly filings are accessible using the US EDGAR[1].
[edit] Germany
In Germany those figures are available using the German company register, the central platform for storage of company data.[2].
[edit] Netherlands
In the Netherlands the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) provides on its web site a register of issued capital[3].
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