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How to Buy Stock in Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Your Other Favorite Companies

By Jared Dees

Apple, Amazon, and other big companies announced big earnings in the first quarter of the year.

As of this moment, here is how much it costs to buy stock in America’s biggest companies:

  • Apple: $176.89
  • Amazon: $1,5702.08
  • Facebook: $174.02
  • Berkshire Hathaway: $191.61
  • Google: $1,026.30

We own stock in all of them.

Okay, I’m being a little misleading.

I did not purchase the actual stock of any of these companies.

What I did was invest in an index fund and the largest holding of that fund right now includes these companies.

So, we own stock in all of these large companies and about 500 more.

I sometimes think I would like the idea of investing money in individual stocks of companies I know well and buy from a lot.

Then, I remember that I do own stock in them; it’s just through an low-cost index fund.

Investing in individual companies risky and can be costly to make transactions.

The key to success in investing is to be diversified.

Index funds allow you to invest in the entire market (or close to it), which turns investing into a smart financial decision and not a gambling game.

May 5, 2018 Filed Under: Personal Finance

About Jared Dees

Jared Dees is passionate about sharing practical resources to teach faith. He is best known for his website The Religion Teacher and is the author of many books including 31 Days to Becoming a Better Religious Educator, To Heal, Proclaim, and Teach, Praying the Angelus, Christ in the Classroom, and Beatitales: 80 Fables about the Beatitudes for Children.

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