(plural foundries) 1  A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc. 2  The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
Funds raised by issuing shares in return for cash or other considerations. The amount of share capital a company has can change over time because each time a business sells new shares to the public in exchange for cash, the amount of share capital will increase.
Share capital (or capital stock in US English) refers to the portion of a company's equity that has been obtained by trading stock to a shareholder for cash.or an example of the different meanings: a company might have an outstanding share capital of 500,000 shares (the structure usage); it has received for them a total of 2 million dollars, which in the balance sheet is the share capital (the accounting usage).