In a very subjective way. Warren Buffett and his mentor Ben Graham would say that the Stock Market is a voting machine in the short term and a weighting machine in the long term.
Participants have different mental models under which they value the individual stocks. Value investors look at intrinsic value and discounted cash flow. Most people would value the stocks based on discounted cash flow. But other people would look at momentum of the stock, specific events, war, elections, etc. to factor in valuing the stock. That is what makes the stock market interesting: the heterogeneity of valuation models for individual stocks.
The definition of index is a measure of the change in an economy or securities market. This is simiar to the value given to individual stocks, but its a group of individual stocks.
Individual shares (ownership) in a company.
In a bear market your stock value goes Ka-flop.
Market cap of a stock can affect a stock exchange by increasing the size of an index. Appreciating value of a stock's shares outstanding increasing not only increase the value of market cap, but contributes to the size of the index.
Market Price or Market Value is the price of one stock Market capitalization is the value of all the stocks listed in that particular exchange.
No. To get book value per share, you would divide book value by shares outstanding. Market value is whatever the current rate is on the stock exchange.
In terms of stock market, a stock weightage or a market value weighted index describes an index whose elements are values according to the fair market value of their outstanding shares.
I know the value of the whole foods market stock is probably a good bit. This is a pretty good market stck however. This is the one i would go to if i was you.
False
It was plummeting in value.
stock is recorded at book value and not on market price in original books of accounts
The stock price multiplied by the number of stock shares outstanding. for example if there are a million shares of stock and the the price is 1 dollar per share then the market value is one million