Units for measuring corporate ownership.
Units for measuring corporate ownership.
Questions tagged [shares]
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Why is stock dilution legal?
What I always heard, since I was a child, was that if you own a stock share, you actually own a small share of a company. That seems to be the general consensus of what a stock share is.
Well, that said, let's assume I have 10 out of 100 shares of a…
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Found old paper shares of Motorola Inc that has since been broken up
I found 36 physical shares of motorola inc from 1999. I know that since then the company has split up into a lot of subsidiaries/mergers.
Is there any to sell this physical stock or is it worthless? if not worthless, do you have any idea what the…
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How does a public company issue new shares without diluting the value held by existing shareholders?
When a public company issues new shares, the total number of shares traded in a secondary market goes up. Assuming there is no change in the fundamentals of the company and the profitability, I would expect that the share price of the existing…
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Found more old paper shares from broken up companies
I recently asked a question with regards to 36 physical shares of motorola inc from 1999 I found lying around. Thanks to the great answer I received (if you're wondering they're worth around $3000), I did some more digging and found my other old…
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What is the difference between shares, stock and stakes?
What is the difference between shares, stock and stakes? For a layman, many times it seems they are used almost interchangeably.
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Am I a billionaire if a friend gives me $1000 for 0.0001% of my "company"?
If my friend gives me a thousand dollars for 0.0001% of my "company", am I technically a Billionaire now?
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How close is the fate of Berkshire Hathaway tied to Warren Buffett?
We all are humans. Humans are mortal, and so is Warren Buffett. Given that he is an elderly man close to 90, it is quite likely that he will pass away in the next few years.
Sad events like these often cause the value of a connected share to…
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Does cashing a 3% share harm the company itself?
So I have a 3% share of a tech company and saw my $20,000 become $1.8 million. I'm not planning on cashing it now, but maybe in the future. I was wondering if selling it would harm the company that it would be bad to sell it for my personal needs.
I…
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Why is it rational to pay out a dividend?
Imagine a mature company, which has stable earnings and made a profit this year. The company is planing to pay out a part of this earnings to its shareholders. Assuming the stock price goes down exactly what is paid out per share the shareholders…
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Selling property inheritance share to sibling, 25 years later: original value? current value? something else?
My father died about 25 years ago, leaving me and my siblings a certain percentage of the lake home and property equaling 100%. At the time of death the property/home was paid for. My brother bought out 6 of the 8 siblings' shares. He now owns 95%…
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"Marked down as someone wanting to sell shares." What does that mean?
A few years ago I and a few friends created a company based on the web. During the raising funds period, we got a plan for $500,000 for 20% and we got investors. The last news about investors that I have refers to 2017: the investor got 15% for…
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50k job is offering 90k worth of shares. Scam?
This was a job posting on Linkedin, in the software industry.
The rules are that you can sell up to 30k per year. But the job offers 50k (GBP) and it seems that offering shares greatly in excess of the salary is very disproportionate.
I feel like…
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CEO entitlement from share ownership?
If I own shares of a company, am I entitled to apply as position of CEO? Who decides?
Do I have more clout within the corporation to gain positions of work in the company than a non-holder? What kind of basic clout or advantages come with owning…
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How can a stock trade for a fraction of a cent?
I was looking at Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc OTCMKTS: HMNY (parent of MoviePass) and noticed they are trading for 0.0032 USD. I understand how this can happen as the market cap falls below 1/100th of the shares outstanding but how do you…
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Did an additional $32 billion necessarily get invested into Amazon.com stock on October 26th, 2017?
The share price went up about 6.9%, and the market cap is $466 billion. Does that mean that that much new money had to have been invested after hours? Would it otherwise be possible for the stock price to go up like that?
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