CALLABLE COMMON STOCK

A security that symbolize possessorship in a corporation that has privilege to vote, whose possessors are the last to earn if the company liquidates and which can be recover by the corporation who issues it, at a calculated amount or at a premium to the latest price in the market. Usually, callable common stock is spread by a parent company for its subsidiary company. The parent company keeps the privilege to purchase back the subsidiary company’s shares, if it became strategically advantageous.