EDPUZZLE: The Stock Market Explained - Netflix
What is a dividend?
A portion of profits a company pays to shareholders.
What is an IPO?
Called an Initial Public Offering, it is the first day a business sells shares of its ownership to investors
True or False Companies were thinking about ALL of their Stakeholders (including not only shareholders, but customers, employees, community members, etc) when they were making decisions at this time
False
Which is the largest stock exchange in the world?
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
The famous Economist Milton Friedman said that publicly traded companies should only care about....
Shareholders
What kind of companies typically have stocks exchanged on the NASDAQ?
Tech companies
In the 1950s, the stock market helped....
The Middle Class grow
The price of a stock is based on:
What people believe a company is worth
The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
measures the stock performance of only the 30 most important companies listed on the major stock exchanges in the United States.
