How much of the business your one share buys depends on the total common stock outstanding, a figure you can easily determine using the company's balance sheet. Image source: Getty Images.

The primary financial statements of for-profit businesses include the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flow, and statement of changes in equity. Nonprofit entities use a similar ...

You can find information about a company's common stock in its balance sheet. Image source: Getty Images. Simply put, each share of common stock represents a share of ownership in a company.

The Federal Reserve opted to slow its balance-sheet runoff further at its March policy meeting, but investors shouldn’t assume this move could notably ease upward pressure in Treasury yields.