Speculative Stock

Categories: Stocks

See: Speculation. See: Speculative Company.

A speculative stock is the underlying manner in which investors invest in speculative companies. CancerBGone has no data to support that its Witch's Brew is effective in curing cancer. Yet many people drink it and "swear by it." The company is about to go big with an add-on Warlock's Brew. There's no residual value if it turns out that dessicated turnip mixed with the ear hair of donkeys really does anything more than gross people out when they hear what the bitter drink consists of. Yet...people invested. Maybe it will turn out to lower blood pressure instead, and that'd be an accidental win.

What? Could happen. Maybe. Never underestimate the power of ass hair.

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Finance: What is speculation?6 Views

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Finance a la shmoop what is speculation? wild bets crazy dreams invested upon the [Man placing bet and woman dreaming about money]

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state lottery betting the ranch on red

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drilling randomly on street corners hoping to find oil you don't want to do

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that all right that's speculation the opposite of speculation in a sense is

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well just real investing that is doing research on a company or an industry

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finding the megatrend it feeds into and doing the math on its earnings and [Man completing math work]

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realizing that the company will in fact in two years earn more like five bucks a

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share rather than three bucks a share that well everyone on Wall Street ie the

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stock brokers are publishing and predicting speculation is just kind of

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throwing money at things on a wing and a prayer and you know hoping for that

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miracle yeah but doesn't usually happen so just be an investor

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