About This Cheat Sheet

Complete guide to Stocks and Shares for competitive exams: basic concepts of stock/capital (total amount of money needed to run a company), share (unit of capital), face value/nominal value/par value (original value printed on share certificate), market value (trading price of share – can be at par, above par (premium), below par (discount)), dividend (annual profit distributed to shareholders as percentage of face value), brokerage (fee paid to broker for buying/selling shares), formulas for calculating investment, number of shares, dividend income, rate of return (yield), investment for desired income, market value when dividend and rate of return given, comparing different stocks for better investment, problems on selling shares and reinvesting, problems on brokerage (including or excluding), problems on tax on dividend income, problems on shares purchased at different times, and shortcut tricks for SSC, Banking, Railway, UPSC, and other government exams.