Imagine a jigsaw puzzle; this puzzle represents an entity. You are given a piece of the puzzle. Congrats, now you legally own a part of that puzzle. In a nutshell, stocks are like pieces of a puzzle, when you receive/buy a stock, you own a part of the entity you have invested in. You, as a stockholder, are entitled to a share of the profit that is generated through the growth of the company.
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