What Is The Most Common Stock?

While it is difficult per say to identify the most common stock in the world, there is arguably identifiably the most traded stock: Citigroup (NYSE: C).  Citigroup has nearly a billion individual shares and is held by investors in nearly every corner of the world.  Being the most common stock or biggest stock in no way makes Citigroup the best stock in the world, it is simply currently the most traded.  Other top contenders for most common stocks to own in the stock market are:


Bank of America

General Electric

Ford Motor Group

Most Common Mutual Funds

When talking about the most common, one cannot leave out mutual funds.  These days mutual funds, alongside exchange traded funds for commodities, are probably the fastest growing sector of the investment market.   The most popular mutual funds with the most common stock are:

Vanguard 500 Mutual Fund Index: this fund alone has over $100 billion dollars in assets

American Funds Growth

Pimco Total

Fidelity Contrafund

Of just the top 25 combined mutual funds, their combined assets total nearly 1.3 trillion USD.  So when speaking of the most popular stock or most commonly owned stock, it’s hard to ignore these mammoth mutual funds.

Most Popular Stocks

While not necessarily the most profitable nor the largest, there always exist stocks that are popular with investors.  They are traded often, talked about in investment circles and financial programs, and often in the news.  These stocks are usually long term stocks which have been around for some time while others are relatively new companies, but hot and popular to invest in:

Google: probably the most popular or at least most well known stock in the world.  This stock has made many people millionaires in its short life span.

Starbucks: do to its popular namesake coffee houses, this stock is popular and owned all over the world.

Microsoft: the original big stock.

Home Depot: while not a household name in every sector of the country, this stock has been one of the fastest moving and most significant consistent gainers in the market.

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