February 8, 2012

Some Basic Info On Stocks

Investing into the stock market can be a very powerful plan of action.  So, what are they?  Here is a short basics of stock market investing tutorial for those who would like to start learning about the stock market.

A stock is just a piece of the ownership of a given company.  For instance if you buy 1 share of stock in company XYZ then you own a piece of the company.If there are 10 million shares of stock and you own 1 then you are 1/10,000,000th owner of that company.

Over time stocks move up and down based on how fast the company grows and how much supply and demand there is for the company.If the company is fundamentally strong and growing then there will be more and more demand to invest into it and this demand will raise the price of the stock.

Stocks can also make money for their investors in a second way.  Stocks paying dividends are stocks that pay you a very small amount of the earnings that a company has.  These earnings can make you some extra money on the side and as the company grows and starts to prosper their dividends will continue to increase meaning more and more cash flow for you.

So, how do you go about finding strong stocks that will most likely grow over time?Well there really are a lot of great strategies out there, however the most powerful one is probably value investing.

This involves buying stocks in companies that are already well established, but their stock is just not at a fair price.In other words their stock is undervalued and is a great buy.

Value investors will use ratios such as the Price to Earnings Ratio and the Price to Book Ratio in order to try to match up how much the company is actually worth per share and how much those shares are going for.

Also looking at how much trust you have in a company is important too.  If the company isn’t something that you can see being around in 5 years then maybe investing into it for the long term is a bad idea.  However if it has a huge growth potential then the opposite is true.

When it comes down to it you have to be the one to decide if it is worth getting into or not.However if you do take the time to do your research and learn from your mistakes then you are already taking the first steps to success.


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