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What's a Stock? Stocks represent actual ownership chunks in companies.   |
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Gauging Google's Gigantic Valuation You can use market cap information to compare companies in similar industries, and start asking yourself some questions about Google's valuation. Does it seem logical that Google's market cap tops the values of eBay, Amazon.com, and Yahoo! combined? |
The Motley Fool
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What's a Stock? A share of stock represents actual ownership in a company. Consider this very simplified example. |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2006 |
What's a Stock? Don't think of it as a piece of paper or a trading card. A share of stock represents actual ownership in a company. |
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Foolish Fundamentals: Stocks In the investing world, there may be no question more basic than this: "What's a stock?" Yet many people don't know the answer. |
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"Outstanding Shares" vs. "Float" What's the difference between a company's outstanding shares and its "float"? |
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Making Sense of Stock Quotes Learn what terms like "volume" and "beta" mean. Here's a review of a typical online stock quote. |
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Market Cap Explained Think of market capitalization as a company's price tag. In proper context and amid many other measures, a company's market cap can offer some useful investing food for thought. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2006 |
On Employee Stock Options Companies often offer stock options to employees. Where does the stock in these options come from? Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2010
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These Stocks Could Sink You Stocks with tinier floats -- most often issued by smaller companies -- can experience wild price swings, and they're also more prone to short squeezes, which can really ramp up shares' volatility. |
The Motley Fool
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The Market Cap Shortcut An easy way to get a quick handle on a company's valuation. |
The Motley Fool
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Ooh ... That Fool Owns This Stock Don't read more into a stock position than is really there. |
The Motley Fool
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Is Hewlett-Packard Crazy? Hewlett-Packard recently announced that its future is looking brighter and it's tripling its planned share repurchases, upping the limit to $12 billion worth of stock. Is it a good move? |
The Motley Fool
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A Better Way to Sell Your Stocks? Fractions can serve you well on your way in or out of a position. |
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How Stocks Are Like Ice Cream There's no way to fudge-coat it. You have to pay attention when a company issues more shares. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
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Building Our Reputation Reflection on the progress real estate professionals have made in the publicly traded real estate industry during the past 15 years, it strikes one that beyond building physical structures, a reputation is also being built. |
Popular Mechanics
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Top 3 Measurement Tools for DIY Done Right The stuff here isn't as fun as, say, using a high-powered saw, but it can save lots of time. |
The Motley Fool
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Spam Works Don't let yourself fall prey to promises of easy riches via e-mails. You won't be the one getting rich. Hype, surge, sell, implode. It's a common pattern with penny stocks that causes many people to lose money. |
The Motley Fool
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Beware the Year's "Best" Funds When picking a fund, don't fall for a fluke. |
