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What does it mean to own a stock?

Updated: 9/16/2023
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owning a stock means - owning a portion of a company. Every stock holder who holds stocks of a particular company are partly owners of that company.

Let us say you own 1 million stocks of a company XYZ which has a total of 10 million stocks in the market, you are a 10% stake holder or 10% owner of the company.

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