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-securities that represent equity ownership in a company
-let an investor vote on matters like the election of directors
-give holder a share in a company's profits via dividends or capital gains |
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| highest/lowest price a stock is traded for during the day |
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| portion of a company's profit paid to common and preferred shareholders |
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Dow Jones Industrial Average
-30 stocks that trade on the NYSE |
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| DJIA, S&P, S&P 500, NASDAQ |
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Earnings per share
(company's profit/# of shares) |
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(exchange = Place in which stocks are traded)
NASDAQ, AMEX, NYSE, |
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| highest/lowest price in a year |
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| highest price a security that has changed hands between a buyer and a seller |
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| initial public offering - first price a stock will trade at |
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| most recent trade of a security |
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| An order to buy/sell a security at a specific price |
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| owns stock/another security |
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| lowest price of a security that has changed hands between a buyer and a seller |
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-pools of money managed by an investment company
-offers investors a variety of goals depending on fund and investment charter
-many funds these days are no load and impose no sales charge |
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| difference between total price you paid for a security, with the brokerage commission you paid, and the current value |
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price at which a security opens the trading day
usually reflect's previous day's closing |
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| piece of paper that proves ownership of stocks, bonds, and other investments |
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| price received for sold security |
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| ownership in the company (AKA stocks) |
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| investors who borrow stock and sell it to someone else are betting the shares go down in price. Then, they can buy the stock back at a lower price and pocket the difference as profit |
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-companies split outstanding shares into a larger number of shares
-investor's percentage of equity in the company remains the same |
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| ticker symbol of the company |
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| daily number of shares of a security that changes hands between a buyer and a seller |
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