[ELI5] If Apple is a trillion dollar company, why isn’t the owner of Apple a trillionaire?
In: Economics
Because Apple, like any other publicly traded company, has many owners — everyone who owns Apple stock. Those that own *a lot* of said stock are multimillionaires, but no single person has (or ever likely will have) the entirety of Apple’s stock all at once and thus accurately be characterizable as owning all of its value.
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