The heroine of the book is Dagny Taggart who owns a large railroad company.

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That means Goodbody & Company owns the shares and you just have a contractual relationship with Goodbody that, in principle, some of those shares are yours.

也就是说持有股票的是古德巴迪,你只不过与其有着合同关系,原则上,部分股票归你所有

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The price of a share is the price of the ownership of that earnings' stream If I buy a share I'm in with everyone else who owns the company and I have a claim on the earnings' stream, but the earnings' stream is a year-by-year thing.

每股价格是指,收入所有权的价格,如果我和其他股东一样买了一份股票,那么我就对收益有要求权,但收益是逐年计算的

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