Difference / Distinction between Stock and Shares

  The Capital of a Company is usually divided into certain indivisible units of a fixed amount, these units are called Shares and Stock is the aggregate of fully paid-up shares, consolidated and divided, for the purpose of convenient holding into different parts.  

Difference / Distinction between Stock and Shares 

No	Stock	Shares
1	Stock has no nominal Value	Share has a nominal Value.
2	Stock is always fully paid up	The shares may not be so.
3	Stock is transferable in small fractions	The shares can only be transferred in round numbers
4	Stock may be of equal denomination.	All shares are of equal denomination.
5	The fractions or parts of the stock do not bear any distinctive numbers.	The shares always bear distinctive numbers.
6	Stock cannot be issued directly to the public	Shares can be directly issued to the public.