Whoever owns the shares of stock are the owners of the public company, no one else. When you buy a share of stock, you are then one of the owners of that company. It could be any of over 13,000 companies that are traded with stock on the open market such as McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Amazon.com, Ford, Krogers, your local bakery or electric company.
As a company earns money, it becomes more valuable and this value is reflected in the price of its shares on the open market. You can collect this increase in value when you sell your shares for more than you paid for them.
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If you buy stock hoping that you can sell it for a quick profit because of the daily or monthly swings in price, then you are gambling rather than investing. You are trying to guess better than the public, including professionals, how the price will change.
To truly invest, buy quality stocks and hold on to them. When you hold these over a period of time, the share prices will go up for a real reason - the companies are earning money every year and becoming more valuable. This is not gambling; you are owner of a money making business.
If you save a portion of your income each payday and as it accumulates invest in stocks, over the course of several years you can grow very wealthy indeed. It is like hiring someone to get a job and earn money for you, and then using that money to hire more workers. Your money grows exponentially.
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Stocks don't expire. You own small part of the company if you own it's stock. If you buy when stock is cheap and sell when it's expensive you can make a lot of money in any stock. It's a silly thing to say because no one knows when stock is cheap and when it's expensive.
Good for him if it went up.
I don't know nearly anything about it. My teacher said that some guy brought a ton of stock of coca cola. He said he would buy for little and sell for a lot. He made money. But wouldn't the coke expire? He said he had it for like 20-30 years
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