Stock is a representation of capital paid or invested into a business entity by stockholders. Stock may also refer to: Places Stock, Essex, England, a village and civil parish Stock Windmill Stock, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland, a village Stock, Wiltshire, England, a small settlement Stock Farm, a northern suburb of Roseau, Dominica Stock Island, an island in the lower Florida Keys Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, United States Stock Township, Noble County, Ohio, United States People Stock (surname), a surname Arts, entertainment, and media Stock (album), by Akina Nakamori Stock, a fictional town in Eastfarthing, in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien Raw stock, undeveloped motion picture film Stock character, a stereotypical fictional character who audiences readily recognize Stock footage, film or video footage that can be used in other films Stock photography, the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses Stock sound effect, a prerecorded sound effect created for or contained within a sound effect library Summer stock theatre, American theatre concept Summer Stock, American film premised on Summer stock theatre Biology Animals Stock (cage), a stall or cage used to restrain livestock Fish stock, semi-discrete subpopulations of a particular species of fish Foundation stock, individual or general type of horses used as the foundation animals that create a new breed or bloodline Livestock, animals kept for agricultural purposes Stock fish, a type of dried fish product People Old Stock Americans, descendants of the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies, of mostly British ancestry, who colonized America in the 17th and the 18th centuries Racial stock, an obsolete term referring to racial groups Plants Stock (flower) (Matthiola), a genus of flowering plants Virginia stock (Malcolmia maritima), a garden plant Brands and enterprises Stock (publishing house), a French publisher and subsidiary of Hachette Livre, which itself is part of the Lagardère Group Elliot Stock, a London publisher of the works of, among others, William Blades Stock Spirits, a Polish company established in 1884 Stock Transportation, a Canadian school bus operator Stock (supermarket), an Paraguayan supermarket chain Economics Stock (also capital stock) of a corporation, all of the shares into which ownership of the corporation is divided Stock (variable), in economics, business, or accounting, a variable measured at one specific time STOCK Act, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading Stock in trade or inventory, a supply of goods or materials held