Generally speaking, a corporation will sell shares of its business to raise capital. The new funds can be used to pay debts or invest in research and development of new products These are just some of the many examples for selling shares to the public.
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Public limited company are selling their shares to get investment as their capital, which can lead to improve their business. It is also an expense as they have to pay the dividend, but its all just the business strategy to flow the money within the business.
Some people actually deal in shares as a hobby! Others deal in shares as a business, hoping to profit from their dealing so as make a living.
To get capital(money) to help it to grow.In exchange the shareholders benefit from this when the corporation pays dividends.
Stockbrokers make money when they sell you shares and also make when they sell your shares.
Stocks don't sell shares, companies do. They do do to generate funds in IPOs.
I have 32583 Ronson PLC shares, how can I sell them
If you own stocks or shares you can sell them through the original vendor, be it a brokerage firm or discount online broker or bank. Contact your financial adviser in order to sell your stocks or shares.
Topshop is a public limited company this means they can sell their shares in the stock exchange and they can sell shares to the public.
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A business that raises money by issuing shares of stock?
When a business needs to raise cash, they arrange to sell shares of the business to individual people. There are regulations to be followed, but basically a share is a piece of ownership of the company. If you buy a share, you own that much of the company. The share price is what you have to pay for it. If a lot of people want the shares, and there aren't enough to go around, the price will go up. If people don't trust the company, they all try to sell their shares and the price of each share will go down.