What a stock is
Market Basics
A slice of a company
A share is literal ownership: a claim on a company's profits and assets. Price moves because buyers and sellers constantly re-vote on what that claim is worth.
Check yourself
You own 100 shares of a company with 1M shares total. What do you own?
- A loan to the company
- 0.01% of the company correct
- The right to set its price
100 ÷ 1,000,000 = 0.01% of the business. Profits, votes, and all.
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