You are playing a game of semantics to try to confuse or bore people into thinking you know something about the topic, which you don't. Let's see...
This is wrong again. Owning stock gives you a fractional ownership in the business. Shareholder equity is merely a bookkeeping itme on the...
They are absolutely analogs. The assets of the company are comparable to the gold. The ownership of the assets through purchase of common stock...
And it was stated in response that a bankruptcy proceeding doesn't make the mines, factories and distribution channels disappear or become...
For those interested, see the refutations of this incorrect assertion earlier in this thread.
I don't know about or trade in the companies you cherry-picked to prove your point. For a company such as XOM, I would argue that it will perform...
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IMO, the advantages of owning common stock are: 1. It represents fractional ownership in a business that may be difficult to duplicate, like...
Of course the silver mine has an intrinsic value based on the assets and income stream. The amazing thing is that this is beyond fatima's...
And a lot of common stock today is issued with no par value.
This isn't a baseless assertion. A share of common stock is a share in a business with revenues, assets, earnings and dividends. If one share...
I guess the difference between us is that I consider myself part of an audience since I am here to listen and learn what I can from the many...
My intent was to expand the discussion to demonstrate that it might be to the advantage of folks here to expand their view to include additional...
It is your right to believe what you want. I was trying to expand the discussion, but that was a mistake for this audience.
Every person who owns an S&P500 index fund also owns Dow stocks. The reverse isn't true. Most large cap funds own Dow components, but own less...
I'll stand by my statement that the Dow contains the type of stocks that most individuals buy or should buy. It is the most widely used index to...
The Dow has outperformed the S&P over the past 1 year, 2 year, 5 year and longer periods. It is very easy for individuals to buy the average or...
The same is true for I bonds and gold, so I don't think your comment is relevant.
I don't think that's relevant because more people invest in some of the other investments also. I like I bonds, and gold, but it's a mistake to...
I agree that the S&P contains more stocks and is more representative of the market. But I believe the Dow is more representative of how most...
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