Shares and dividends anyone?

Question

it's my maths project on 'Shares and Dividends.' i am not able to write the definations of INVESTMENT and SALES PROCEED.Pls help me out.thanx.

Answer 1

The word Investment can have a number of different meanings,

but given the context of your question I would go with this one:

The amount of money paid to purchase an asset.

(for example a piece of property or some shares).

The Sales Proceeds would be the other side of the coin, so to speak:

The amount of money received upon the sale of an asset.

For example:

I buy 100 shares of XYZ stock for $500 ($5/share).

Later I sell them for $520 ($5.20/share).

My "Investment" was $500.

I sold my shares and received "Proceeds" of $520.

Tossing in one more term, the "Profit" on the deal was $20.

You could also use the term Investment to describe

the action, regardless of the amount.  For example,

"I used to have an "investment" in XYZ company,

but I sold it."

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