Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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The nominal value assigned to a share in the company’s capital accounts, commonly ₹10, ₹5, ₹2 or ₹1 in India.
A bookkeeping figure with no relation to what the share is worth. Dividend percentages are declared against it, which is how a "300% dividend" turns out to be ₹6.
A tradeable loan on which the issuer pays a fixed coupon for a defined term and returns the face value at maturity.
Because the coupon is fixed, the price is what has to move to keep the bond competitive with what new borrowers are paying. That seesaw is why debt funds bought for safety can lose money in a rate-hiking cycle.
The fixed periodic interest a bond pays, expressed as a percentage of its face value.
Not your return. Buy above face value and the premium is a loss spread across the holding period, which yield to maturity captures and the coupon does not.
Division of a share’s face value, increasing the share count and reducing the price proportionally.
Same as a bonus in effect, different in accounting. Also creates nothing.
The movement of a bond’s price towards the amount that will be repaid, as the repayment date approaches, at an unchanged yield.
It has a sign, and the price tells you which: below face value the drift is upward, above it the drift is downward. So part of the trend on a bond chart is the calendar rather than anybody’s opinion — and it disappears entirely on a perpetual instrument, which has no repayment date to converge on.