What is the diffrence between a stock and a share?

Question

What is the diffrence between a stock and a share?

Answer 1

You can own a share of stock, or 2 shares or 3 shares...

Answer 2

Stock is another word for a piece of a company. A share is an induvidual piece that has been broken down to a dollar value. If you add up all the outstanding shares and times them by the dollar amount it costs per share, you get the value of the company, or the capitalized cost.

Answer 3

AAPL (Apple) is a stock.

GOOG (Google) is a stock.

You can own shares in a stock, eg 100 shares of GOOG.

Answer 4

Stock is made up of shares. Stock is the product (ownership), shares are the units in which the product is sold.

Answer 5

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