The difference between securities and stocks:
1, one is a species and the other is a specific variety. In short, securities include commodity securities, currency securities and capital security. A stock is a kind of security, and a stock is a valuable security.
2. Stock is a kind of securities. Securities include commodity securities, currency securities and capital security. Commodity securities include: bills of lading, waybills, warehouse receipts, etc.
3. Monetary securities mainly include two types: one is commercial securities, mainly including commercial bills of exchange and commercial promissory notes. The other is bank securities. It mainly includes bank drafts, cashier's checks and checks.
4. Securities in a narrow sense refers to capital security. In daily life, people usually call it capital security securities directly. Securities refer to securities produced by financial investment or activities directly related to financial investment. Holders have the right to require the issuer to provide income, including stocks, bonds and their derivatives. Such as fund securities and convertible securities.
5. Stock is just a kind of securities. Generally speaking, the most important types of securities that individual investors are exposed to are stocks, funds and bonds. Stocks and bonds are both valuable securities and are the two major financial instruments in the securities market. Both are issued in the primary market and transferred in the secondary market.