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Yes. But it's mostly small corporations.
Investors can sell their shares whenever they want for the best price they can get. Investors only risk losing the money they themselves put into a company.
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.
sell the same product in their stores world wide.
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.
Yes. But it's mostly small corporations.
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.
A stock exchange is a place where brokers get together and buy/sell shares of corporations (stocks). Hence the name, stock exchange.
Investors can sell their shares whenever they want for the best price they can get. Investors only risk losing the money they themselves put into a company.
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.
sell the same product in their stores world wide.
multinational corporations
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.
In the United States, a publicly owned corporation is one whose shares are traded on public stock exchanges. Generally, anyone may purchase shares in such a corporation. And once they purchase the stock, they may freely sell it over the exchange. Since shareholders are the real owners of a corporation (they elect its Board of Directors), and the purchase of shares in these corporations is open to the general public, such corporations are referred to as "publicly owned." In contrast, a privately owned corporation does not offer or trade its shares to the public on public stock exchanges. Very often such corporations are owned by families, who do not want to dilute their control of the corporation by selling shares to outsiders.
A place where you can buy and sell shares of stock is usually called a "stock exchange" in English and a bourse in French.
Stockbrokers make money when they sell you shares and also make when they sell your shares.