Stock Market Vocabulary

What is a Stock Market

• A collection of markets and exchanges where the activity of buying and selling shares of companies/corporations take place.

• A place to stock up on groceries.

• a company whose stock is available for purchase to the general public.

• the initial launch of a company’s stocks being offered as a public company.

Explain Stocks/Shares

• a company that does not offer stock to the general public, but rather to a small group of willing investors.

• How much you can take from a serving of food.

• capital raised by a company/corporation through the issue of shares that the general public may purchase. These shares are like holding small pieces of ownership of the company/corporation.

• a person or organization who puts money into shares of a stock with the expectation of achieving a profit.

What is a Public Company?

• a company whose stock is available for purchase to the general public.

• a company who is frequently in the news.

What is a Private Company

• a company whose contact information is not listed on the internet.

• a company that does not offer stock to the general public, but rather to a small group of willing investors.

IPO stands for what?

• International Post Office

• Island Police Officers

• Internet Protection Organization

• Initial Public Offering

What is an Investor?

• a person who asks people to give their company money through the purchaser of shares in stocks.

• a person or organization who puts money into shares of a stock with the expectation of achieving a profit.

What is Trade in regards to the Stock Market?

• the buying and selling of shares in stocks.

• lending money to other companies.

• rewarding shareholders with bonuses.

What is a Bear Market?

• a period of generally falling prices.

• a period of generally rising prices.

What is a Bull Market

• a period of generally falling prices.

• a period of generally rising prices.

Bear and Bull Markets are examples of what?

• Personification

• Odd Naming Strategies

• Market Trends