Category: Blog

Private vs Public Companies

Aug 13 2019
Ayan Jannu

In the modern world, all companies can be placed into two categories: private and public. When companies are first created, they are private, and later on if they remain successful, that company can go through an IPO, or Initial Public Offering, to sell its shares to the world on any stock exchange, thus rendering it

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What is Stock?

Aug 13 2019
Sanjay Menon

A stock is a type of security that an ordinary person buys of a company to obtain partial ownership of said company.  In other words, one gives money to a company which needs liquidity, and in return the company pays back the individual with a share, making them a shareholder of the company.  Now, depending

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Types of Stocks

Aug 13 2019
Parth Sandeep

Looking at a broad overview of stocks, and one can see two main types: preferred and common stock. Now, the main difference between the two is that preferred stocks are more restrictive to the shareholder, and the company does not take their vote for changes in the company; in other words, they do not have

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