Is it even worth buying 4 shares of google??

Question

I'm only investing a few thousand bucks in the market. I want to get into google. I want to buy a small position, but i'm looking at a measley 4 shares @470... is it even worth it?

Answer 1

no because google has already flourished ex. microsoft in the 80's people bought their stock sooo cheap and its worth sooo much now  it made many people multi millionairs when they only spent a few thousand google is not going to jump to a high number because it already has

Answer 2

I don't think it's worth it...

Answer 3

Probably yes, but it depends on who you buy or sell stocks through.  At E-Trade I pay $9.99 per trade so the commission on $1880 is minor.  If you had a broker charging you $100 to buy or sell, I would think twice.

Otherwise 4 shares at $470 is no different than 100 shares at $18.80.  The key is if you think Google is heading up or down.

Answer 4

this questions alwasy has to be answered in the context of what are the investor's parameters.  Is he/she a long term investor?   Is liquidity an issue?

you can ask a million questions which may be relevant.  but i would say that the actual number of shares is meaningless (for the most part)..it's arbitrary.  the dollar amount is more important.

so maybe your trading costs make the purchase unreasonable.   or maybe you have some sort of restrictions on trading that would keep you from trading optimally based on the low number of shares.  

but it's impossible to generalize.

look at Berkshire Hathaway.  is it worth buying one share of that stock?  the stock trades at over 100,000 dollars per share.

Answer 5

Sure, it may be a really smart move to buy 4 shares of Google! but It may also prove to be a loser.  There are a lot of  analysts on both sides of the fence on Google, Apple, Textron and almost every big corporation.  I consider $1,800 or even $500 to be a SIGNIFICANT investment.  You could diversify to spread your risk, say, buy 2 shares of  Google and 4 shares of Apple and 5 shares of Textron. If you will need that investment money within the next year or so, I would say maybe don't risk it.  If you lost every penny of your investment,  would you be able to bounce back in a while and try again?  If so -- go for it!  Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Answer 6

you will lose money if you invest in goog.

They are in a downward trend with a decent support at around 400, and can easily head to 200 a share.