Is this accurate, /biz/?
you do realize stocks represent something that is tangible, right? In particular, company's assets.
>>1018758
Trolled hard
>>1018758
You do realize that thinking of stocks primarily as representing the company's assets is naive and wrong, right?
>earnings, not assets
>>1018757
Stock values represent the performance of a company.
You really need to leave and read a Grade 10 high school book about basic concepts.
>>1018758
>>1018787
Hmmm, I'm looking really, really hard at the CAPM and DCF models for that "asset value" variable but I'm not seeing it. Surely you're not a retarded moron?
>>1018763
Ricky even got his grade ten.
Stocks don't represent anything tangible. They're only worth as much as you can sell them, or from how much dividends you get from them.
You can't buy $300 in shares and go to the latest bank branch and ask for all of their pens. Hell, most investor-grade stock doesn't even have voting privileges.
>>1018757
Tim's buys his prices from China, mine are real, American made!
>>1018803
A company uses assets to produce earnings
An analyst uses earnings to produce valuation
Fin101 man
>>1018758
Its the general populations idea of the companies worth. Thats all. Its nothing but the value of opinions.
