The idea
A company like Apple is split into millions of tiny pieces called shares. When you buy one share, you own a real slice of that whole business — not a toy, not a loan, an actual piece. If the company does well and grows, your slice can be worth more too. 🍎
Words to know
- Stock
- A tiny piece of ownership in a real company.
- Share
- One single unit of a stock — owning a share means owning a slice of the company.
- Dividend
- Cash some companies pay you just for owning their shares.
- Earnings
- The profit a company has left after it pays all its costs and taxes.
- Market cap
- How big a company is in dollars — the share price times the number of shares.
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Owning 1 Apple share = owning a tiny piece of Apple.
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