eli5 How is the ticker price of a stock decided when there are multiple trades of a stock happening at the same time?

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eli5 How is the ticker price of a stock decided when there are multiple trades of a stock happening at the same time?

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The trades execute in order, they don’t happen at the same time. So the stock price is the last price someone paid to buy it. 

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