Rise of the tech stock
Rise of the tech stockRise of the Tech Stocks
Over the past few years, many millionaires have been created due to the economical explosion of the stock market. The market isn’t just growing, as it did in the mid to late seventies; but it is on steroids, and is growing like never before. Backed by the relentless, yet sometimes spasmodic, growth of the NASDAQ Composite, Wall Street’s impact on the future cannot be denied. For as long as the market has been in existence, drastic changes such as these have never taken place. What awesome power could have produced so much money in so little time? What colossal force could have caused the United States’ economy to flourish? The answer lies in one, simple, recently coined phrase: the tech stock.
The stock market has been around since people traded silver for ownership of cargo 200 years ago, yet many people don’t know how it works, or where their money goes when they purchase a stock; they simply think "buy low, sell high." Although this is a good basic investment plan, it is imperative that one knows where his money is headed when he buys a thousand dollars worth of a specific stock. When one purchases a stock, they are actually purchasing part of a company (Brian 1). The reason one would do this is because he wants part of the profits of the company. If one purchases 1% of a company, he will receive 1% of the income, to put it in a simplified manner. The money the company gains from selling their stock is placed back into the company. This way, the company can grow, and produce more profits for the stockholders. The company’s value is represented by the stock price on the stock exchange (Brian 2). Over time, a method of judging a stock’s performance, called the "profit to earning ratio" was created. "P/E is shorthand for the ratio of a company's share price to its per-share earnings. For example, a P/E ratio of 10 means that the company has $1 of annual, per-share earnings for every $10 in share price (Green 1)." This ratio basically represents how much money the investor is putting in per dollar earned. This was generally a good thing to look at when choosing a stock to invest in, but the P/E ratio can be misleading, especially in the few tech stocks that have tremendous stock prices, yet have little net profit.
No one knows exactly when the tech stock came about, but it seems like it came all at once. The phrase "tech stock" simply refers to all stocks that deal with any form of technology related, directly or indirectly, to the computer or computer...
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