15 Matching Annotations
  1. Aug 2025
    1. Say you buy 100 shares of Apple (AAPL) at $150 each. Later, supply chain issues arise or a new Apple product underperforms causing investors to lose confidence, which pushes the stock price to $100 per share. It's not really a $50 per share loss. Rather, it's a reflection of what investors are now willing to pay for Apple shares—the way a new car's value depreciates—the vehicle hasn't changed, but its market value does.

      Learning to understand!

  2. Jul 2024
  3. Feb 2024
    1. Eine neue Studie der Universität für Bodenkultur beziffert erstmals, wieviel Kohlenstoff zwischen 1900 und 2015 langfristig oder kurzfristig in menschlichen Artefakten wie Gebäuden gespeichert wurde. Die Menge des dauerhaft gespeicherten Kohlenstoffs hat sich seit 1900 versechzehnfacht. Sie reicht aber bei weitem nicht aus, um die globale Erhitzung wirksam zu beeinflussen. Die Möglichkeiten, Boot in Gebäuden zu nutzen, um der Atmosphäre CO2 zu entziehen, werden bisher nicht genutzt. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000208522/co2-entnahme-durch-holzbau-ist-bisher-nicht-relevant-fuer-den-klimaschutz

      Studie: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad236b

  4. Jul 2023
  5. Dec 2022
  6. Aug 2022
  7. Jul 2021
  8. Aug 2020
    1. billionaire investor, George Soros, called the stock market a bubble. “Investors are in a bubble fueled by Fed liquidity,” he says and that’s why he “no longer participates.”

      This is what I was thinking: the stock market is fed by liquidity by the government. I am not sure how to think about it in the long run.

      If I keep money in the stock market, the government keeps pumping money, inflation raises, then my money is just constantly devalued. I really don't know

  9. Oct 2018
  10. Jul 2017
    1. Owning stock gives you the right to vote in shareholder meetings, receive dividends (which are the company’s profits) if and when they are distributed, and it gives you the right to sell your shares to somebody else.

      dividends are profits shared amongst share holders

  11. Apr 2016
    1. When the investor buys in below book value

      Has there ever been stocks that would sell below their book value under "normal" circumstances? And what about the "entry price" which, I would assume, is the be all of investing?