Stocks

Owning stocks represents proportional ownership in a publicly traded company. A single unit of a company’s stock is known as a share. Companies issue shares in order to procure the funds needed to invest in their business models, services, and products.

Investors are able to purchase and sell shares after a company issues shares through its initial public offering (IPO). The market value of a company’s shares will track with the financial performance of the company’s business model.

Some publicly traded corporations will pay a portion of earned profits via a direct cash payment to shareholders. This direct payment is referred to as a dividend.

At Iron500, you can trade a wide range of stocks CFDs. This means that you do not need to buy the actual stocks but instead, you can simply make a prediction regarding the direction that the price of the stock will move. In this way, you are easily able to trade some of the biggest stocks in the market such as Facebook, Apple, and many more.