{"id":4219,"date":"2024-09-27T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valueinvestments.ch\/lexikon\/shares-issued\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:47:24","slug":"shares-issued","status":"publish","type":"lexikon","link":"https:\/\/valueinvestments.ch\/en\/lexicon\/shares-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"Shares issued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What does the term issued shares mean?  <\/h2>\n\n<p>The term <strong>shares issued<\/strong> refers to the <strong>total number of <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.valueinvestments.ch\/aktie\">shares<\/a><strong> issued by a company<\/strong>. This includes all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valueinvestments.ch\/aktie\">shares<\/a> held by the shareholders as well as the shares held by the company itself. The number of shares issued can change, e.g. due to a <strong>share split<\/strong> or a <strong>reverse stock split<\/strong>.    <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Difference between issued and outstanding shares  <\/h2>\n\n<p>While issued shares describe the total number of all issued shares, <strong>outstanding shares<\/strong> refer to the number of all shares held by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valueinvestments.ch\/aktion%C3%A4r\">shareholders<\/a> <strong>excluding the company&#8217;s own shares<\/strong>. In other words:   <\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Issued shares &#8211; treasury shares of the company = outstanding shares<\/h4>\n\n<p>Outstanding and issued shares can therefore be identical at most. Outstanding shares are often used by investors when calculating key figures in order to evaluate or analyze a stock corporation.   <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Change in the number of shares issued  <\/h2>\n\n<p>The number of shares issued is <strong>not fixed<\/strong>. If a company requires <strong>additional capital<\/strong>, further shares can be issued, thereby increasing the number of shares. Increases are also possible through <strong>share splits<\/strong>. This involves increasing the number of shares by <strong>dividing existing shares<\/strong>. It is also possible to <strong>combine shares<\/strong> (reverse split), which in turn reduces the number of shares issued.      <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-4219","lexikon","type-lexikon","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valueinvestments.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexikon\/4219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valueinvestments.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexikon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valueinvestments.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lexikon"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valueinvestments.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}