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, 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
 
Biology
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
 - Stock (supermarket), an Paraguayan supermarket chain
 
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
 - Tally stick § Split tally, 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
 
See also
- Stalk (disambiguation)
 - Standing stock (disambiguation)
 - Stocker (disambiguation)
 - Stocking (disambiguation)
 - Stocks (disambiguation)
 - Stocks (surname)
 - All pages with titles containing Stock
 
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