How can I buy/sell shares?

During the in corporation of a company, my business partner and I decided to put in $1000 for 1000 shares in the new company. The equity was split 33%, 67%. So I had 670 shares, and business partner had 330 shares. Soon after, an investor came along...

% of Shares Held by All Insider and 5% Owners: 5% % of Shares Held by Institutional & Mutual Fund Owners: 97% % of Float Held by Institutional & Mutual Fund Owners: 101% Here my questions: 1.) Does the first mean owner owns 5% of the 5% so 0...

Is today a good day to buy Facebook Shares? Some commentators are saying Facebook shares could fall but if you compare Facebook shares to the other tech giants shares it looks like shares could climb up pretty darn high.(10x at least?) Or am I missing...

CORTEZ, INC. Income Statements 2003 2004 2005 Net sales $370,000 $425,000 $412,500 Operating expenses 232,500 260,000 245,500 Income from continuing operations $137,500 $165,000 $167,000 Loss on discontinued segment (52,500) - - Income...

Hello, This is my understanding of shares (in relation to a company being public) A company is big or has potential so it goes public. Why? Where is the benefit for the company? If shares are $1 for Ice cream inc and I buy one share that $1 I spent goes...

I exited a corporate share scheme, and because the current share price is low, I want to hold on to my shares for now, but didn't realise how difficult that would be. The Issue is they are in JPY, and many share accounts don't allow those shares. I know...

Here's an example: If I buy £1000 of shares in A and £1000 of shares in B. Then sell both shares in the same year and get the following result. - All Shares in A sold for £1100 (£100 profit). - All shares in B sold for £...

I have bought 100 shares of some company held it for more than 12 months & again I bought 100 shares of same company. Now I have 200 shares ,100 are 12 months old & 100 are 1 month old.Now if sell some 50 shares ,What kind tax is applicable ...

Here's the situation: - My startup is currently a Delaware LLC with a decent amount of revenue - A few years ago, an investor bought 5% of the company for $2.5K (at a time when the LLC revenue was around $50K, which we assumed was the company's FMV)...