Stock vs. Remainder — What's the Difference?

A broth made by boiling bones or meat.

The remaining part of an estate left after other bequests have been made.

Goods or merchandise kept for sale.

A structural element left intact after damage.

The handle of a rifle or other firearm.

What is left over; residue.

The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares.

A mathematical term for what is left after division.

A person’s lineage or ancestry.

Unsold items from book publications sold at a discount.

Stock (also capital stock) is all of the shares into which ownership of a corporation is divided. In American English, the shares are collectively known as "stock".

In mathematics, the remainder is the amount "left over" after performing some computation. In arithmetic, the remainder is the integer "left over" after dividing one integer by another to produce an integer quotient (integer division).

A supply accumulated for future use; a store.

A part of something that is left over when other parts have been completed, used, or dealt with

The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.

A property interest that becomes effective in possession only when a prior interest (created at the same time) ends.

All the animals kept or raised on a farm; livestock.

Dispose of (a book left unsold) at a reduced price

All the aquatic animals kept or raised in an aquaculture operation.

Something left over after other parts have been taken away.

A population of wild animals, especially of a species that is also farmed

The number left over when one integer is divided by another

A kind of financial security granting rights of ownership in a corporation, such as a claim to a portion of the assets and earnings of the corporation and the right to vote for the board of directors. Stock is issued and traded in units called shares.

The number obtained when one number is subtracted from another; the difference.

The stock issued by a particular company

(Law) An estate in property that takes effect after the expiration of another estate, as where one party is given the right to occupy a property for that party's lifetime, and then another party is given the same right after the first party's death.

Chiefly British The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.

A book that remains with a publisher after sales have fallen off, usually sold at a reduced price.

Chiefly British A bond, especially a government bond.

To sell or dispose of as a remainder.

The trunk or main stem of a tree or another plant.

A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.

A plant or stem onto which a graft is made.

(mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ≤ r < d.

A plant or tree from which cuttings and slips are taken.

(mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction

The original progenitor of a family line.

(commerce) Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.

The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character

(legal) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined

Ancestry or lineage; antecedents.

Remaining.

The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended.

To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.

Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.

An ethnic group or other major division of the human race.

The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction.

A group of related languages.

An estate in expectancy, generally in land, which becomes an estate in possession upon the determination of a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument; for example, if land be conveyed to A for life, and on his death to B, A's life interest is a particuar estate, and B's interest is a remainder, or estate in remainder.

A group of related families of languages.

Remaining; left; left over; refuse.

The raw material out of which something is made.

Something left after other parts have been taken away;

Paper used for printing.

The part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor

The broth in which meat, fish, bones, or vegetables are simmered for a relatively long period, used as a base in preparing soup, gravy, or sauces.

The number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend

A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.

A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

Stocks(Nautical) The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.

Sell cheaply as remainders;

Often stocks A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment.

Stocks A device consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes for confining the ankles and sometimes the wrists, formerly used for punishment.

(Nautical) A crosspiece at the end of the shank of an anchor.

The wooden block from which a bell is suspended.

The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.

The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.

A handle, such as that of a whip, a fishing rod, or various carpentry tools.

The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, coulter, and other parts are fastened.

A theatrical stock company.

The repertoire of such a company.

A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center

(Botany) Any of several Eurasian and Mediterranean plants of the genus Matthiola in the mustard family, especially M. incana, widely cultivated for its clusters of showy, fragrant, variously colored flowers.

(Games) The portion of a pack of cards or of a group of dominoes that is not dealt out but is drawn from during a game.

(Geology) A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed.

(Zoology) A compound organism, such as a colony of zooids.

Personal reputation or status

Confidence or credence

A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.

A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.

Rolling stock.

To supply (a shop) with merchandise.

To supply (a farm) with livestock.

To fill (a stream, for example) with fish.

To keep for future sale or use.

To provide (a rifle, for example) with a stock.

(Obsolete) To put (someone) in the stocks as a punishment.

To gather and lay in a supply of something

To put forth or sprout new shoots. Used of a plant.

Kept regularly in stock

Repeated regularly without any thought or originality; routine

Employed in dealing with or caring for stock or merchandise

Of or relating to the raising of livestock

Used for breeding

Of or relating to a stock company or its repertoire.

Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.

A store or supply.

(operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

A supply of anything ready for use.

Railroad rolling stock.

A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.

Farm or ranch animals; livestock.

The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.

(finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.

A share in a company.

(figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.

Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.

The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.

Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.

The type of paper used in printing.

Ellipsis of film stock

Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.

Stock theater, summer stock theater.

The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.

(horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.

(by extension) Lineage, family, ancestry.

Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.

A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.

(firearm) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.

The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.

Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.

The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.

The tailstock of a lathe.

A bar, stick or rod.

A ski pole.

(nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.

(nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.

(geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)

A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.

A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.

A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.

A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle

(folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.

(obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.

A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.

The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.

Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

(biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

The beater of a fulling mill.

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

To have on hand for sale.

To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.

To put in the stocks as punishment.

(nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.

To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.

Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.

Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.

A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.

The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a rifle or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.

The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.

The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.

Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; - so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.

The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.

Same as Stock account, below.

The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.

Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.

The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.

Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; - called also live stock.

A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.

That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.

The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).

A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.

A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.

The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).

An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.

A race or variety in a species.

In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpæ, etc.

The beater of a fulling mill.

A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; - used in making soup, gravy, etc.

Raw material; that out of which something is manufactured; as, paper stock.

A plain soap which is made into toilet soap by adding perfumery, coloring matter, etc.

To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.

To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.

To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.

To put in the stocks.

Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock phrase; a stock response; a stock sermon.

The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity);

Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces;

The merchandise that a shop has on hand;

A supply of something available for future use;

Not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit

The descendants of one individual;

The handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun;

The reputation and popularity a person has;

A special variety of domesticated animals within a species;

Lumber used in the construction of something;

A certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation;

Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia

A plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants

Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers

The handle end of some implements or tools;

Persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant

An ornamental white cravat

Have on hand;

Equip with a stock;

Supply with fish;

Supply with livestock;

Stock up on to keep for future use or sale;

Provide or furnish with a stock of something;

Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots;

Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;

Routine;

Regularly and widely used or sold;

Yes, remainder items are generally sold at a discount because their demand is lower than initially projected, necessitating price reductions to encourage sales.

Remainders are typically caused by overstocking, misjudging market demand, or changes in consumer preferences that leave products unsold.

Remainder books in the publishing industry are usually sold at significantly reduced prices to clear out inventory and make room for new titles.

In some cases, remainders can be returned to suppliers if agreements are in place, especially in industries like fashion where items have seasonal demand.

Stock is vital as it ensures that products customers want are available when they want to buy them, directly affecting business revenue and customer satisfaction.

Businesses use sales data, market trends, and predictive analytics to forecast demand and determine the appropriate amount of stock to maintain.

While challenging, it is possible to minimize remainders through accurate demand forecasting, responsive supply chain practices, and flexible inventory management.

Retail stores often position new and popular stock prominently for easy access, while remainders may be placed in less visible areas or special clearance sections to optimize store layout and sales.

Effective strategies include better demand forecasting, dynamic pricing models, and promotional tactics to move products more quickly through the sales cycle.

A remainder is an unsold item after its initial sales period, while a clearance item is specifically marked down, often as part of seasonal sales or to clear out discontinued stock.

Technology, such as inventory management systems and data analytics tools, plays a crucial role in tracking stock levels, forecasting demand, and efficiently managing remainders.

Remainders can have significant environmental impacts if not managed properly, including excess waste and resource inefficiency, prompting businesses to seek sustainable disposal methods like recycling or donating unsold goods.

Consumer buying patterns greatly influence how much stock is purchased and the likelihood of remainders, with sudden changes in trends often leading to increased remainders.

Online retailers may have more flexible stock management and warehousing strategies, often utilizing drop-shipping or just-in-time inventory to reduce remainders.

Stock and remainder levels are monitored using inventory management systems that track product inflow and outflow, providing real-time data to minimize overstocking and understocking.