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Stock split
A stock split is a corporate action in which a company issues additional shares in a fixed proportion, cutting the per-share price while leaving each holder's total value unchanged.
Stock trader
A stock trader, also known as an equity trader, is a person who buys and sells equities to profit from price movements, for clients or a firm's own account.
Stock valuation
Stock valuation, also called equity valuation, is the task of estimating the worth of a company's shares, either by discounting forecast cash flows or by comparing prices of similar companies.
Stock-based compensation
Stock-based compensation is employee pay delivered through equity awards such as stock options and RSUs, which companies must expense at fair value under US GAAP and IFRS.
Stock-tank oil initially in place
Stock-tank oil initially in place (STOIIP), also called original oil in place (OOIP), is the total crude oil in a reservoir before production, measured at surface conditions.
Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing (born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard, 1944) is an American actress known for Rizzo in Grease (1978), the Tony-winning A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, the Oscar-nominated Six Degrees of Separation, and Abbey Bartlet on The West Wing; she now lives in London.
Stockbridge damper
A Stockbridge damper is a dumbbell-shaped tuned mass damper with two masses on a short steel cable, clamped to overhead conductors to dissipate wind-induced vibration, patented in the 1920s.
Stockbroker
A stockbroker, also called a share broker, is a licensed intermediary who buys and sells securities for clients and often advises them, with most trades now executed digitally.
Stocker government
Stocker government: Austria's federal government sworn in 3 March 2025 under Chancellor Christian Stocker, an ÖVP–SPÖ–NEOS three-party coalition, the first since 1947, formed after 151 days and excluding the FPÖ election winner.
Stockfish
Stockfish: free, open-source (GPLv3) UCI chess engine in C++, derived from Glaurung 2.1, using NNUE neural evaluation with alpha-beta search; No. 1 on CCRL, 19 TCEC titles, latest release Stockfish 19 (2026).
Stockfish (chess)
Stockfish: free open-source UCI chess engine forked from Glaurung 2.1 in November 2008 by Costalba, Romstad, and Kiiski; GPL v3, CPU-only NNUE evaluation, CCRL 3650 Elo, 19 TCEC titles.
Stockholm
Stockholm, capital of Sweden, founded by Birger Jarl with the name first recorded in 1252 letters; built on 14 islands, passed one million inhabitants in 2026, Sweden's financial centre and a leading European green city.
Stockholm (2018 film)
Stockholm (2018) is Robert Budreau's comedy-drama-crime film starring Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace, based on the failed 1973 Swedish bank robbery that coined "Stockholm syndrome"; Metascore 54, 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from the 2013 Spanish film of the same name.
Stockholm Arlanda Airport
Stockholm Arlanda Airport, also known as Arlanda Airport, is Sweden's largest airport and primary international gateway, located about 40 kilometers north of Stockholm and serving over 24 million passengers in 2025.
Stockholm Bloodbath
Stockholm Bloodbath (Stockholms blodbad): mass executions in Stockholm, 8–9 November 1520, ordered by Christian II after his Swedish coronation; over 100 heresy-convicted opponents died, triggering Gustav Vasa's uprising and the Kalmar Union's end.
Stockholm Bloodbath (film)
Stockholm Bloodbath is a 2024 Swedish-Danish English-language action film by Mikael Håfström, written by Erlend Loe and Nora Landsrød, starring Sophie Cookson, Claes Bang, and Alba August, dramatizing the 1520 Stockholm Bloodbath through a revenge plot.
Stockholm City Hall
Stockholm City Hall (Stockholms stadshus) is the red-brick seat of Stockholm's municipal government on Kungsholmen, built 1911 to 1923 and host of the Nobel banquet.
Stockholm congestion tax
The Stockholm congestion tax (Swedish: trängselskatt i Stockholm) is a time-differentiated tax on vehicles entering and leaving Stockholm's inner city, tested in 2006 and made permanent on 1 August 2007.
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a global treaty adopted 22 May 2001, in force 17 May 2004, with 186 Parties. It bans or restricts POPs, requires National Implementation Plans, four-yearly reporting, POPRC chemical review, and Global Monitoring Plan effectiveness evaluation.
Stockholm County
Stockholm County (Stockholms län), Sweden's most populous county with 2,486,251 residents in 2025 across 26 municipalities; governed by Region Stockholm (healthcare, transport, planning) and a County Administrative Board; 31% of national GDP.
Stockholm Exergi
Stockholm Exergi is a Swedish district heating and cooling company owned equally by the City of Stockholm and an investor consortium, supplying heat to more than 800,000 Stockholmers.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), founded by the Swedish Parliament 1 July 1966 as an independent foundation in Stockholm, is a peace and security research institute known for its databases on military expenditure, arms transfers, and nuclear arsenals.
Stockholm Municipality
Stockholm Municipality (Stockholms kommun) is Sweden's most populous municipality, near one million residents, governed by a city council, with 11 district areas, 132 districts, and climate-positive-by-2030 goals.
Stockholm Palace
Stockholm Palace (Stockholms slott), officially the Royal Palace of Stockholm, is the official residence of the King of Sweden, built after the Tre Kronor castle burned in 1697.
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC): international resilience and sustainability research institute at Stockholm University, founded 2007 with the Beijer Institute; home of the 2009 planetary boundaries framework, now led by Line Gordon with 160 staff.
Stockholm school (economics)
The Stockholm school was a group of Swedish economists, active from 1927 to 1937, including Gunnar Myrdal, Bertil Ohlin, and Erik Lindahl, who developed dynamic macroeconomics for unemployment policy.
Stockholm School of Economics
Stockholm School of Economics (Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, SSE): private Swedish business school founded 1909, based at Sveavägen 65, Stockholm. EQUIS-accredited since 1999; FT European Business Schools 2025 rank 19; six departments, SSE Business Lab incubator.
Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm syndrome: term for hostages bonding with captors, coined by Nils Bejerot as Norrmalmstorg syndrome after the 1973 Kreditbanken robbery; not a DSM or ICD diagnosis.
Stockholm University
Stockholm University (Stockholms universitet) is a public university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 1878 as Stockholms Högskola and now one of Sweden's largest, with about 33,000 students.
Stockholm water supply
Stockholm water supply delivers drinking water from Lake Mälaren to about 2 million people, treated at the Norsborg and Lovö waterworks and distributed through some 2,200 km of pipes.