Own a piece of a company's future.
While stocks fluctuate, growth may help you keep ahead of inflation. Potentially generate income with dividends. Flexibility for long- and short-term investing strategies. Placing a stock trade is about a lot more than pushing a button and entering your order. This brief video can help you prepare before you open a position and develop a plan for managing it.
Why trade stocks?
Stocks let you own a piece of a company’s future. They’re available for a wide variety of industries—so you can tap into your knowledge of specific businesses, or help you to diversify your portfolio.
Despite its popularity and presence in the news, the stock market is just one of many potential places to invest your money. Investing in stock is often risky, which draws attention to the huge gains and losses of some investors, but with our managed the risks, you can take advantage of the stock market to secure your financial position and earn money.
For investors who put money into different types of investment products, a stock market investment has the benefit of providing diversification. Stock market investments change value independently of other types of investments, such as bonds and real estate. Holding stock can help you weather losses to other investment products. Stock also adds risk to a portfolio, as well as the potential for large, rapid gains, helping investors avoid risk-averse or overly conservative investment strategies.
Bonds also tend to perform well when stocks are declining, as interest rates fall and bond prices rise in turn. A Safer Haven for Your Money. Essentially, the difference between stocks and bonds can be summed up in one phrase: debt versus equity. Bonds represent debt, and stocks represent equity ownership. This difference brings us to the first main advantage of bonds: In general, investing in debt is relatively safer than investing in equity. That’s because debtholders have priority over shareholders—for instance, if a company goes bankrupt, debtholders (creditors) are ahead of shareholders in the line to be paid. In this worst-case scenario, the creditors might get at least some of their money back, while shareholders might lose their entire investment depending on the value of the assets liquidated by the bankrupt company.
In terms of safety, bonds from the U.S. government (Treasury bonds) are considered risk-free (there are no risk-free stocks). While not exactly yielding high returns (as of 2020, a 30-year bond yielded an interest rate of about 1.7%), if capital preservation, in nominal terms, means without considering inflation—a fancy term for never losing your principal investment—is your primary goal, then a bond from a stable government is your best bet.
Why trade stocks with Growsafe Ltd ?
Our tools, info, and professional guidance mean you’ll never have to face the markets on your own.
- Get market data and easy-to-read charts
- Use our stock screeners to find companies that fit into your portfolio
- Trade quickly and easily with our stock ticker page
Fast facts
- Stop and conditional orders may help protect your portfolio
- The price-to-earning (P/E) ratio can help you identify value stocks
- Compare earnings-per-share (EPS) between similar companies.
- Market capitalization (market cap) is the dollar value of a company
- Stock performance can fluctuate depending on market conditions
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A dividend is a payment made by a corporation to its stockholders, usually out of its profits. Dividends are typically paid regularly (e.g. quarterly) and made as a fixed amount per share of stock.
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Placing a stock trade is about a lot more than pushing a button and entering your order. This brief video can help you prepare before you open a position and develop a plan for managing it.