How much is a point worth in the stock market?

Question

If a stock went up 1.000000+ how much is that.
How much Does a single stock/share cost.
Could some one give me the lowdown on this.

I was hoping for more then one sentence.

Answer 1

With stocks, one point is one dollar.
$1.00
"point" has different meanings for different securities.
http://www.investorwords.com/3723/point.html
If you bought 1 share of stock for $25.00 and the price of the stock went up one point, it would now be worth $26.00.
The term "point" isn't really used when talking stocks.
Everyone just uses dollars & cents.
"Wow....my stock went up two dollars and fifty-seven cents today."

Every stock has it's own worth.
The more popular the stock, the more people want to buy it, driving up the price.
When people decide to sell their shares of stock in a company, others panic and start selling their's.
The price starts falling and new buyers aren't willing to buy it at the current price.
The remaining owners want to get rid of it desperately, so they offer it for sale at an even lower price to attract buyers.
And the price of the stock keeps falling.
Some faster than others.
Vise-versa when prices rise.

When everyone feels that the current price of the stock is at it's lowest, the freenzy reverses and the price of the stock goes up.
Stock prices are on a constant roller coaster ride - up-down-up-down.
There is no one set price.

Right now we're in a "bear" market, where everyone is selling and everything is falling in price.
Surf around this site -
http://finance.yahoo.com/actives?e=O
You'll see the different prices of stocks.
Last Trade = When the stock market closed , that's what the stock was selling at.
Change = How much money the stock went up or down in price, since the stock market first opened that day.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

Answer 2

bud 68 meaning???????????

Answer 3

The "points" referred to are indexes, not individual stocks.

Answer 4

1 point=$1.00