What is an equity share?

Question

What is an equity share?

Answer 1

Share which entitles the holder to claim all the rights laid down in the Company's Act, 1956.

The opposite of equity share is preference share.

Answer 2

An equity share in simplest terms is a part of ownership in a corporation/company. If you hold an equity share you can say that you own a tiny little portion of the company, and theoretically with voting rights in company decisions.

Answer 3

Equity share holder is one who can vote and is a real share holder. Equity share is the common share,

Answer 4

an equity share is a share, and you own the company after all the loans and mortagues, whatever is left is yours.

  its simply called sometimes, common share.