Chapter 15:

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1. Across: The value assigned to stock when issued, and which often has little meaning after issuance. (Two Words)
2. Across: The right of a stockholder to make additional investments when additional issues of a security are offered, to ensure the ability of the stockholder to maintain the current percentage of ownership.
3. Across: The right of stockholders to elect members to the board of directors.
4. Across: Stock representing the residual ownership of a company.
1. Down: A ratio measure of the value relative to earnings based on a stock's price per share divided by the stock's earnings per share. (Two Words)
2. Down: The process of increasing the number of shares of an organization's stock with an accompanying relative reduction in price.
3. Down: The payments made, periodically, to stockholders by the issuer of the underlying stock.
4. Down: An absentee ballot which can be used by shareholders to vote on corporate issues, and which can be used to grant the shareholders voting rights to another on the issues on that ballot.
5. Down: Stock issued by a corporation which generally has a fixed dividend and which is given preferential treatment, relative to the common stockholders, in the payment of dividends and in liquidation.