2006-07-27 20:40:16 · 11 answers · asked by femalefromuk19 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
I mean if the shareholders all sold their shares, like got their money out, because the price was good but everyone did at once.
2006-07-27 20:49:28 · update #1
the stock would tank!
2006-07-27 20:44:35 · answer #1 · answered by acidpluto 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is generally given as "the share price" is the price for which shares were last traded. So the listed share price would simply be whatever the last person sold theirs for. However in practice heavy selling would tend to a) depress the price, since it's unlikely that there would be lots of other people wanting to buy at the same time that every single current shareholder wanted to sell, and b) trigger a suspension of trading, as a previous responder has noted.
2006-07-28 04:01:10 · answer #2 · answered by Graham I 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A share is worked out to be a certain percentage of a companies worth. The fact that everyone has sold their shares does not mean the company is worthless.
Although the share price will fall, it is unlikely to hit zero unless the company has gone bust.
2006-07-28 03:49:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there were no buyers the price would go to zero, there is literally no one to sell to. If there was only 1 buyer, and he said I'll give u 1p each share, and all the sellers agreed, the price would be 1p! simple supply and demand
Normally though, of course, if ALL of the shareholders in a company like BP sold today, it wouldn't ever go to 1p or zero, at some point, even 15% lower, funds would come in and snap them up on the cheap!
2006-07-28 03:43:03 · answer #4 · answered by gooner_jim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends if the the company has assets, a great customer base and a great proposition. You could get someone to buy you out, it would be fine.
Without these it would be highly unusual and someone would ask questions and want it cut-price, if at all.
Good luck.
2006-07-30 12:46:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The shares wouldn't be worth anything would they. It's called a consumers market. All the bids for the shares would plummeted meaning all shares worthless.
2006-07-28 04:04:27 · answer #6 · answered by jules 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends why they are sold, and it also depends who buys them and for how much.
If they are a decent price, and there is good news about the company .. the shares should be stable or rise.
2006-07-28 03:45:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Word would get round really quickly that people were dumping their shares and the price would plummet, then people would suddenly start to think that they were cheap and start buying, so it would start to rise again.
2006-07-28 04:14:43 · answer #8 · answered by nlj1520 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Such unusual activity would trigger suspension of the shares so in other words in couldn't happen as you describe.
2006-07-28 03:54:52 · answer #9 · answered by Frank M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
share price would tumble
2006-08-01 05:29:01 · answer #10 · answered by flymetothemoon279 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋