May 13, 2013 | Equities, The Basics
Two main benefits to stock ownership motivate investors: firstly, stockholders own a percentage of the company, which should theoretically increase in value as the company’s value increases. Secondly, as a partial owner of a company, stockholders have a right to...
May 13, 2013 | Equities, The Basics
While companies will usually do everything they can to make their stock price rise higher and higher, there is one premeditated event that is motivated by a desire to lower the stock price: the stock split. The Basic Split The classic stock split involves a company...
Nov 28, 2012 | Equities, The Basics
LEVEL: BEGINNER Small Cap Stocks Small-cap stocks are the first of the three sizes of companies typically listed on exchanges, and have valuations between $300 million and $2 billion. As of the end of November 2012, 1078 companies of this size were listed on Google...
Nov 28, 2012 | Equities, The Basics
LEVEL: BEGINNER There are many different types of common stocks available for investors to buy and sell both on and off exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ. The most popular and common are the so-called large-cap stocks like IBM (IBM),...
