What’s the difference between stocks and shares?

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What’s the difference between stocks and shares?

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Answer 1

If I have a stock of crackers in my cupboard, you can come take a share of them.

All the crackers together is literally my stock of crackers (what I have “in stock”). What you took is literally your share of that stock.

These words aren’t financial words, they’re plain English dividing words.