authorized stock

authorized stock definition - finance
The maximum number of shares of stock that a corporation is allowed to issue. If corporate management wants to exceed that limit, typically they have to obtain approval from shareholders in order to issue more shares.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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