Now ultimately, the purpose of investing in a share is to get the dividends; that's the whole named purpose of the corporation.

股票投资是为了取得股利,这也是公司明确的目标

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People don't usually know how many shares are outstanding in the company that they invest in.

人们通常不知道,他们所投资的公司到底发行了多少股票

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What this is is the price of a portfolio of shares in U.S. companies.

这是美国公司的股票投资组合的价格

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The other thing that a company can do to get money out is share repurchase-- stock repurchase or share repurchase It's perfectly--this sometimes surprises people when they first think about it.

另外一个可以让公司,收回投资的方法是股票回购,股票回购或者股份回购,最初看到这一方法时,人们可能会十分惊讶

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In other words, if you had an account at a brokerage and you thought you had a hundred shares of IBM and now the broker is going bankrupt -the broker won't answer your email anymore and he's just gone you go to SIPC and say, I had these hundred shares.

换句话说,如果你在一家经纪公司,设有账户,其中有IBM的100股股份,现在经纪行破产了,经纪行不再回复你的邮件,消失了,你告诉证券投资者保护公司,我有100股IBM的股票

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