What is a stock?



stock right you know that when you buy a stock a stock right it's an ownership in a company so a stock is traded on an exchange right an exchange like the new york stock exchange singapore exchange london stock exchange so depending on you know where you're from right usually your own country would have an exchange right dedicated to trading stocks


Types Of Stock (Market Capitalization)



so one thing to note is that there are many types of stocks out there you know they have stocks that you know focus on energy stocks that are technology related and if you want to break it down right there are pretty much about 11 different sectors that you can look at when trading stocks okay so within this sectors you can further break up the different types of stocks but we will will not go you know into too much details generally

you need to understand that stocks they are traded across the different sectors and these are the 11 sectors that you know you might want to be aware of energy materials industrial consumer discretionary consumer staples healthcare financial information technology telecom utilities and real estate and this isn't the only way right to kind of you know classify stocks because you can also break them down


Types Of Stock (Sector)




according to their market cap otherwise known as their market capitalization so you can rank stocks according to how much they are worth like for example apple you saw earlier about 700 billion dollar company that's a mega cab we call it a mega company large cap is anything over 10 billion dollars mid cap company is between 2 and 10 billion dollars small cap is between 300 and 2 billion and micro cap is between 50 and 300 million dollars and finally

nano capital nano cab right is below 50 million dollars and there's another one right which i know they're not added here it's called a penny stock right so penny stock is uh a stock right that's trading below five dollars they are usually the micro cap nano cap or even sometimes even a small cap stops so this uh uh what we call a penny stocks right stocks that are really you know trading at a very low price point usually below five dollars okay so these are the different type of stocks right you can classify them as well according to market cap