Unit 1 · Level 1 · Money & Markets
Stocks: owning a slice
Buy one share of Apple and you own a (very tiny) slice of Apple: its stores, its iPhones, its profits. You own part of a real business, not just a number on a screen.
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What this lesson covers
Why companies sell shares
Companies sell shares to raise money to grow: build factories, hire people, launch products. In exchange, shareholders get a claim on future profits, sometimes paid out as dividends.
What you get asked
When you buy a share of a company, what do you actually own?
Shares are ownership. A loan to a company is a different thing called a bond.
A payment a company makes to its shareholders from profits is called a ___.
Not every company pays dividends. Many reinvest profits to grow instead, and both can reward shareholders.
Put the story of a share in order
That's the whole stock market in four steps. Everything else is plumbing.
True or false: if a company you own shares in goes bankrupt, you can lose more money than you invested.
Regular share ownership has limited liability: the worst case is your shares go to zero. (Leverage changes this. Much more on that in later leagues.)
Your friend says: 'Stocks are just gambling, numbers going up and down.' What's the strongest correction?
The number follows the business over time. Short-term prices wiggle like a casino, but over years they track business results. Traders live in that gap, and stocks can absolutely go down.
The rest of this unit
What markets are, what you actually buy, and why prices move.