Owning individual stocks isn't for every investor. Maintaining your own portfolio requires you to pay attention to your stocks and have some broader understanding of what's happening in the stock market.
It's also only worth doing if you're confident you can beat the market or intend to improve your investing skills to be able to do so.
For most investors, the easiest thing to do is just to buy shares of a low-cost index fund and let the market do the work for you. However, if you do own individual stocks, you should have an understanding of the businesses, starting with these 10 facts.
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