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Common stock outstanding means all the shares of stock owned by investors and company insiders. The SEC requires this information to be shown on a company's balance sheet. When you buy stock in a ...

The balance sheet and cash flow statement, however, focus more on the capital management ... common financial statement and shows a company's revenues and total expenses, including noncash ...