Equity vs. Stocks — What's the Difference?

The state or quality of being just and fair.

Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.

Something that is just and fair.

A supply accumulated for future use; a store.

Justice achieved not simply according to the strict letter of the law but in accordance with principles of substantial justice and the unique facts of the case.

The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.

See court of equity.

All the animals kept or raised on a farm; livestock.

An equitable right or claim

All the aquatic animals kept or raised in an aquaculture operation.

Ownership interest in a corporation, property, or other holding, usually calculated as the value of the holding after subtracting any debt or liabilities.

A population of wild animals, especially of a species that is also farmed

Equities Shares of common stock or preferred stock.

A kind of financial security granting rights of ownership in a corporation, such as a claim to a portion of the assets and earnings of the corporation and the right to vote for the board of directors. Stock is issued and traded in units called shares.

The value of a brand's reputation.

The stock issued by a particular company

Representing an ownership interest

Chiefly British The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.

Of or relating to stocks

Chiefly British A bond, especially a government bond.

Subordinated to all other claims on income, earnings, or assets

The trunk or main stem of a tree or another plant.

Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".

A plant or stem onto which a graft is made.

(legal) Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England

A plant or tree from which cuttings and slips are taken.

(legal) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.

The original progenitor of a family line.

(legal) A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim.

The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character

The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.

Ancestry or lineage; antecedents.

(finance) Various senses related to net value

The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended.

Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.

A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.

(business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.

An ethnic group or other major division of the human race.

(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets.

A group of related languages.

(poker) A player's expected share of the pot.

A group of related families of languages.

(nonstandard) Equality

The raw material out of which something is made.

Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claims; impartiality.

Paper used for printing.

An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc.

The broth in which meat, fish, bones, or vegetables are simmered for a relatively long period, used as a base in preparing soup, gravy, or sauces.

A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it.

A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.

The difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it

Stocks(Nautical) The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.

The ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation

Often stocks A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment.

Conformity with rules or standards;

Stocks A device consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes for confining the ankles and sometimes the wrists, formerly used for punishment.

(Nautical) A crosspiece at the end of the shank of an anchor.

The wooden block from which a bell is suspended.

The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.

The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.

A handle, such as that of a whip, a fishing rod, or various carpentry tools.

The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, coulter, and other parts are fastened.

A theatrical stock company.

The repertoire of such a company.

A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center

(Botany) Any of several Eurasian and Mediterranean plants of the genus Matthiola in the mustard family, especially M. incana, widely cultivated for its clusters of showy, fragrant, variously colored flowers.

(Games) The portion of a pack of cards or of a group of dominoes that is not dealt out but is drawn from during a game.

(Geology) A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed.

(Zoology) A compound organism, such as a colony of zooids.

Personal reputation or status

Confidence or credence

A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.

A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.

Rolling stock.

To supply (a shop) with merchandise.

To supply (a farm) with livestock.

To fill (a stream, for example) with fish.

To keep for future sale or use.

To provide (a rifle, for example) with a stock.

(Obsolete) To put (someone) in the stocks as a punishment.

To gather and lay in a supply of something

To put forth or sprout new shoots. Used of a plant.

Kept regularly in stock

Repeated regularly without any thought or originality; routine

Employed in dealing with or caring for stock or merchandise

Of or relating to the raising of livestock

Used for breeding

Of or relating to a stock company or its repertoire.

Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.

Plural of stock

(plurale tantum) A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.

The frame upon which a ship is built, and from which it is launched.

A wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn