Stock (disambiguation)

Stock is a representation of capital paid or invested into a business entity by stockholders.

Stock may also refer to:

Places

 * Stock, Essex, England, a village and civil parish
 * Stock Windmill
 * Stock, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland, a village
 * Stock, Wiltshire, England, a small settlement
 * Stock Farm, a northern suburb of Roseau, Dominica
 * Stock Island, an island in the lower Florida Keys
 * Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, United States
 * Stock Township, Noble County, Ohio, United States

People

 * Stock (surname), a surname

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Stock (album), by Akina Nakamori
 * Stock, a fictional town in Eastfarthing, in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Raw stock, undeveloped motion picture film
 * Stock character, a stereotypical fictional character who audiences readily recognize
 * Stock footage, film or video footage that can be used in other films
 * Stock photography, the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses
 * Stock sound effect, a prerecorded sound effect created for or contained within a sound effect library
 * Summer stock theatre, American theatre concept
 * Summer Stock, American film premised on Summer stock theatre

Animals

 * Stock (cage), a stall or cage used to restrain livestock
 * Fish stock, semi-discrete subpopulations of a particular species of fish
 * Foundation stock, individual or general type of horses used as the foundation animals that create a new breed or bloodline
 * Livestock, animals kept for agricultural purposes
 * Stock fish, a type of dried fish product

People

 * Old Stock Americans, descendants of the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies, of mostly British ancestry, who colonized America in the 17th and the 18th centuries
 * Racial stock, an obsolete term referring to racial groups

Plants

 * Stock (flower) (Matthiola), a genus of flowering plants
 * Virginia stock (Malcolmia maritima), a garden plant

Brands and enterprises

 * Stock (publishing house), a French publisher and subsidiary of Hachette Livre, which itself is part of the Lagardère Group
 * Elliot Stock, a London publisher of the works of, among others, William Blades
 * Stock Spirits, a Polish company established in 1884
 * Stock Transportation, a Canadian school bus operator

Economics

 * Stock (also capital stock) of a corporation, all of the shares into which ownership of the corporation is divided
 * Stock (variable), in economics, business, or accounting, a variable measured at one specific time
 * STOCK Act, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading
 * Stock in trade or inventory, a supply of goods or materials held in storage by a business or household
 * , in ancient financial accounting, the part of a split tally stick used as a receipt in a transaction

Clothing

 * Military stock, a leather collar issued to Napoleonic-era soldiers
 * Stock tie, a tie worn around the neck of a competitor riding in an equestrian event

Other uses

 * Stock (firearms), a part of a gun which interfaces with the shoulder or hand
 * Stock (food), a liquid flavoring base for soups and sauces
 * Stock (geology), an igneous rock formation
 * Stock, a type of changeling, a mythical creature
 * Card stock, a type of paper
 * Cattle catch or stocks, a move in some martial arts and wrestling
 * Infant bed, for sleeping babies, rarely called a stock
 * Label stock, a carrier for a label
 * Rolling stock, the vehicles that move on a railway
 * Stocks, a device for punishment or torture
 * Stöckli, sometimes called Stock, a traditional agricultural building in Switzerland and parts of Germany
 * Stock (dominoes), in dominoes, the tiles not picked up at the start which may be drawn later.
 * Bar stock, a common form of raw purified metal