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What is the quantity of One Share of Stock?

- Say a stock cost $5, if I bought a share, does that mean (before fees) will cost me $5? - Does every share have a different quantity? Or one share is one share? - What is the proper term for a unit? A share? A hand? Thanks you guys!

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1. A share means "one share". If a company issues 100,000 shares. You buy 10,000 of those shares. You have 10% of the shares the company has issued. If those 10,000 shares you have cost you 10 dollars. You would have spent 100,000 to acquire 10,000 shares of a particular company.
2. One unit of stock is called a share. The price you see quoted will be the price of one share. If you want to buy one share of a stock that costs $5, then you will get one share for that $5 plus fees. If you wanted to buy 10 shares, that would cost $50. If you wanted to buy 100 shares, that would cost $500. Etc. (You're not using the word "quantity" correctly, btw. The "quantity" of one share would be one -- because "quantity" just means "how many".)
3. I wouldn't get hung up on this sort of minutii. In market terms a share is a share, one share is one share. End of. Of course in a dictionary meaning a share means part of, a percentage of, a fraction of; I have a share in a retail business would therefore mean you may own a 10% share or 50% share of the business. But otherwise stocks & shares they are all the same Mind you if you had 200,000 shares of company XYZ you might own a 2% share!