Possessive nouns

[Our Tort System]

Hi,

Which sentence do you think is correct, if any?

1. Company X was a nascent company in the year 2000. As a consequence of the market crash that happened in the same year, the company's stock depreciated in value.

2. Company X was a nascent company in the year 2000. As a consequence of the market crash that happened in the same year, the company stock depreciated in value.

Thanks in advance.
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[Mordant]

Hello, Tort.

I don't like either sentence but for different reasons. "Company stock" and "company's stock" are both fine.

Then-nascent Fictitious Inc.'s stock value depreciated after the 2000 market crash.

I'll leave it to you to decide whether "in" would be more accurate.

I try to avoid compound modifiers with "now-" and "then-" as much as possible. It doesn't seem very natural or elegant, and they don't seem very common in unrehearsed speech of any type. This alternative prevents that.

In 2000, the nascent Fictitious Inc.'s stock value depreciated after the market crash.

The introductory phrase doesn't throw readers off initially.

[Our Tort System]

Hello, Mordant

Thanks for editing my sentence, your version is concise!
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