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ETFs vs. individual stocks
One ticker for a whole basket — or a bet on a single company.
Concept
An ETF is a basket in a wrapper
An ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund) holds dozens, hundreds, or thousands of stocks — and trades on the exchange like a single stock. Buy one share of VOO and you effectively own a tiny slice of every company in the S&P 500.
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