What is the current Apple market cap? A company’s value is based on the amount of outstanding shares multiplied by the current stock price, this gives it the company’s market capitalization. I company with one million outstanding shares with a stock price of $100 would have a $100 million dollar market cap: $100 multiplied by […]
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An ETF is an exchange traded fund that trades on an exchange like a stock but holds a collection of assets that try to mirror a stock index, sector, commodity, bond, currency or investment style. Unlike a mutual fund an ETF can trade any time the stock market is open until it closes and even
Here is a list of the current most valuable publicly traded companies in the world by market capitalization as of November 20, 2019. On this list there are five NASDAQ listed stocks and four NYSE listed stocks and one company that trades on the OTC market because it is a Chinese company not listed on
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Amazon was taken public in 1997 with an initial public offer (IPO) that priced its stock at $18 per share. Amazon’s first stock split was in June of 1998 with a 2 for 1 split with the amount of outstanding shares doubling in count and halving in price. Then another split happened just months later, this was
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Berkshire Hathaway is the publicly traded corporate conglomerate that Warren Buffett built as a holding company for his investment portfolio of stocks and for the companies he acquired in full. It gets more difficult for him to continue to find companies that are big enough to be meaningful to his portfolio and Berkshire due to
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Here are ten of the most well known companies that currently have some of the best dividend paying stocks. Buying a well known company listed on a major exchange adds more of a safety margin with high yielding stocks. Adding an income producing stock position to an investment portfolio can add diversification. These are not
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Bill Gates has built a net worth of approximately $105.7 billion as of November 2019 making him the second richest person in the world currently after Jeff Bezos according to Forbes. Bill Gates started Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico; it grew to become the largest software company in the world supplying personal computer
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Jeff Bezos’ current net worth is estimated to be approximately $112 billion as of November 2019 which makes him currently the richest person in the world. Due to his success as Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been the second person in history to build a personal fortune of over $100 billion as an
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After reading hundreds of trading books, here are the ones I found to be the best for helping me make money in the stock market specifically. ‘How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad, Fourth Edition’ This book shows the results of the extensive research that William O’Neil put
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This is a Guest Post By Brian Hunt CEO of InvestorPlace. Imagine you’re taking cross country road trip. You and a friend will drive from New York City to Los Angeles… and see lots of sights along the way. Let’s also say that you’ll buy a new car for the drive. I think you’ll agree
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