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Jul

Penny Stocks and shares are in effect total value of a company divided into its constituent parts, these parts or shares can then be bought and sold for profit or loss. Its possible to own a small number of shares in a company which only account for a very very small presentage of the total worth of the company. Lots of the amateur investors do this with a relatively low cost. Or you might be a large investor who wishes to have a controlling interest in a company in which case you would buy the majority of the shares and become the majority shareholder. This is how some companies take each other over - by buying up enough shares so that they control the direction the company takes.