A share is legal ownership of a fraction of a company. Not a lottery ticket, not a number on a screen. If a company has 100 million shares and you hold 100, you own a millionth of its factories, its brand, its cash and its profits. Everything else in investing follows from that one sentence.
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Buying a share means you own…
A bet on the price
A fraction of the actual company correct
A loan to the company
A bond is a loan. A share is ownership. That difference decides who gets paid first when things go wrong, and who gets rich when they go right.
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