They are lost. The last people who bought the stocks paid for a paper that turned out to be worthless.
The company received only the money from when the stock was originally issued, those money were lost in running the company.
The stock may have changed hands many times since then, with individual gains and losses to each investor or trader who held them for a while. The ones that hold the stock when the company goes down take the final loss.
Theoretically the money goes to the company whose stocks you have bought. But, pratically it goes to the person who sold the stocks. When you buy the stocks you buy ownership of that company from the person who already held it. It is like transfer of ownership.
Stocks are businesses that you invest in if you think they will do well in the market. You can bid money on certain stocks and if the business/company does well, you get money back.
To raise money that can be used to grow the company
Stocks
To raise money that can be used to grow the company.
It is when there is money left over from buying and selling stocks. You should get a payout from the company if they made money that year. A certain percentage of their money goes to the stockholders.
Investing money in stocks may be a wise choice because if the company does well you can make money without doing work.
Because when people buy stock, that means they are paying a company a sum to have the right to own a part of that company. When this happens the value of the company goes up. However if people do not like a company they will sell the stock they own and get money back for it. When this happens the company now holds less money and its stock goes down. This happens with thousands of listings everyday on the stock exchanges.
stocks or shares
Investing in stockes is when people put there money into a company and buy sell and trade stocks of that company for a profit. However you can lose substansial amounts of money or gain substancial amounts.
they make money by the company that that they have stocks in making a profit over the finanical year
A person who buys stocks in a company to own part of