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    Fourteen Articles About Stock Investing
    Fourteen Articles About Stock Investing
    Fourteen Articles About Stock Investing
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    Fourteen Articles About Stock Investing

    By Mario V. Farina

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    These are fourteen articles about stock investing. While not a full manual about investing, they may help in getting started. A bonus is that there is an Appendix that contains the names of several stocks the beginner may consider as a first investment. There are no guarantees. Stocks go up and down. Prospective first purchasers should check out their selections with their investment advisor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMario V. Farina
    Release dateFeb 4, 2017
    ISBN9781370704897
    Fourteen Articles About Stock Investing
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    Mario V. Farina

    Mario V Farina has worked all his life, from age 18 to 90. He worked for the American Locomotive Company, served in the U. S. Army during WWII, was employed at General Electric. He taught computers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After leaving his position with RPI, he became employed with the State Labor Department of New York. He’s a car buff, a pun creator, and a computer enthusiast. He wrote textbooks for the programming languages COBOL and FORTRAN and wrote a book of puns and short stories called, “A Little Light Reading,” as well as over 20 other books. Several of his books were translated into other languages. This is his first foray into the world of digital publishing, with the help of his computer tutor (william.rl.dickie@gmail.com).

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      Fourteen Articles About Stock Investing - Mario V. Farina

      Fourteen Articles About Stock Investing

      By

      Mario V. Farina

      Copyright 2016 Mario V. Farina

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      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,

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      Storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission of the author.

      Correspondence may be directed to:

      Mario V. Farina

      Email: mario@mariofarina.com

      These are 14 articles about stock investing. This is not a complete manual about investing in stocks, but it should allow you to get started if you want to begin. At the back of the book, there are ten stocks that the author suggests as candidates for the first purchase for new stock investors.

      The titles of the articles are as follows:

      1 What Are Stocks

      2 Fundamentals of Stock Investing

      3 How Can You Gain With Stocks

      4 Money Makes Money, The Power of Compounding

      5 What Is The Stock Market

      6 The Stock/Ticker Symbol

      7 What Does A Company Do With Earnings

      8 What Are Dividends

      9 The Price/Earnings Ratio

      10 The Bid And Asked Prices

      11 What Is Your Goal

      12 Where is the Money Coming From

      13 What is a Stock's Fundamental Worth

      14 Your First Purchase

      Appendix

      Some Stocks You Might Start With:

      1 What Are Stocks?

      In order to invest in stocks, you need to have a clear idea of what stocks are. If you already know, you can skip this chapter.

      First, you need to know what a corporation or a company is. (In this book I'll use the terms corporation and company interchangeably.) A corporation is an organization devoted to the purpose of making money. When a corporation is formed, it is required that it have owners. A corporation could be owned by only one person or it could be owned by millions.

      Those who start a new corporation or company may decide to allow persons and organizations to purchase part ownership in the company. The smallest part of a company that can be owned is a unit called a share, or a share of stock. Individuals and organizations can purchase more than one share if they wish. They can purchase fifty, one hundred, five hundred, one thousand shares, or more. After the shares have been issued and purchased, those who own shares are known as shareholders or stockholders of the company. The larger the number of shares that any one owner has, the larger that individual's ownership of the company.

      Stocks, therefore, represent ownership in a corporation or company. By law, a corporation is defined as an artificial person. The corporation must have a name and owners. Its major objective is to make money for its owners. There are millions of corporations in this country. You know some of their names very well: General Motors, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Kodak, General Electric, Ford, Kellogg's, and many more. These companies, and others, are owned by many thousands or millions of persons and/or organizations.

      Many corporations are called public companies. This means that those companies can be owned by the general public. Not all corporations are public companies. What this means is that many corporations are owned by only a few people; members of a family, for example. These companies are said to be privately owned. The shares of privately owned companies are not available to the public. In this book, we'll

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