Primary Market vs Secondary Market
When you buy shares on your app, the company gets nothing. Here is why, and what the difference between the two markets means for you.
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In this lesson
- The primary market: the company sells
- The secondary market: investors sell to each other
- So why does the company care about its share price?
- Why the secondary market has to exist
- A quick comparison
- One thing to be careful about
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