Investing Islet
Give the big birds a hand.

There are hundreds of different ways to invest your money. You can invest in nearly everything — from Orangefish bait to baseball cards to orangeade stands. But one of the most popular ways of investing is in publicly traded companies, or companies that trade on the stock market.

Companies produce nearly everything: cereal, cell phones, electricity, zippers, computers, airplanes, and vitamins. And a lot of those companies cost millions of dollars to run. Take this 75-cent can of VitaPedes, vitamin-rich millipedes for toucans. The VitaPede company breeds thousands of cans of millipedes every single day. Plus, they pay for the gloves, mud flats, office buildings, advertisements, not to mention the salaries of the thousands of employees who help grow, package, and sell these squirmy bird snacks. Can you imagine the amount of money it takes to run a company like that?

That’s why many companies, like VitaPede, sell pieces, or shares, of their business to investors. Selling shares help a company to raise some of the money it needs to expand its business and to create new products and services in order to help make the company bigger and stronger.