im just getting into investment. i enjoy it. its numbers. numbers are cool. do i go through microsoft to support blizzard?
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You can’t specify where your money is spent. It probably won’t go to Microsoft anyway. You will probably be buying from another investor and Microsoft will never see any money from the deal. Microsoft’s market cap may go up a few dollars but that is it.
If you want to support Blizzard buy their products. Though that isn’t really an investment.
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i mean id say that buying stock to support a company is a bad idea. buy it to make money instead lol.
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Dont worry , gates will make windows 11 machines expire in 2028 and we will have to spend 2k on gaming machines AGAIN!
Just my pessimism getting the best of me.
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Tell that to my unopened TCG packs
/s
Then you absolutely shouldn’t be buying individual stocks.
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That’s two completely different issues. Unless you are planning to buy a controlling interest in Microsoft, you should just look at it as an investment.
What I find really funny (funny weird, not funny haha) is that people will go onto a DIYS Internet trading site and invest in stocks and … get this … They have no clue as to what the P and B stand for in the stock’s P/B ratio. They are weak at best understanding the P/E ratio.
When I was working there were a bunch of guys investing their retirement money on a DIYS site and when I asked them they said that the total assets on the balance sheet always had to match the total liabilities. I told them that would mean the book value of their stock was zero and their eyes just spun around like pinwheels.
Said group lost half of their retirement in the dot com crash. I just shook my head.
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No , you buy stock to sell it later for a profit ,not to support anyone
Unless you are buying shares from Microsoft’s treasury stock, it wouldn’t support them. Stock exchanges are zero-sum in their eyes, one investor sells and the other buys.
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As @Callypigian said, if you’re a beginner you shouldn’t be buying individual stocks like MSFT. You should probably start with simple index funds like the S&P-500 (SPY or VOO).
WoW is a part of Blizzard; Blizzard is a tiny division under Xbox Gaming, which in turn is a small subsidiary of Microsoft. If you bought $1,000 of MSFT at initial offering, it might have been fractions of a penny that went to support Blizzard (Think Windows and MS Office are their big bread-winners along along with Cloud stuff and AI now). Since you’re not buying MSFT in an IPO, you’re just trading with another investor that wants to sell MSFT… MSFT doesn’t directly benefit from that (they got their investment dollars when they issued new shares at IPO).
If you want to support WoW specifically, then buy stuff from the Cash Shop as those dollars go straight to Blizzard and probably to the WoW team’s future budget (after expenses), rather than other Blizzard game teams.
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Yes…. Yes you should!
ive bought etfs too.
is that what youd recomend?
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If you don’t know what a P/B or P/E ratio is or how to evaluate the earning potential of a company in an industry or an industry within the economy you are better off going to a reputable stock broker or investment firm.
You probably wouldn’t do brain surgery on yourself even if you had medical training, if you haven’t had financial training, hire an expert.
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don’t take investment advise from people on this forum
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Randomly buying stuff that your read about or get “hot tips” from friends/family/co-workers, means you don’t know what you’re buying and more importantly why you’re buying it.
Financial literacy is typically low among the majority of the populace. Read a 101 guide at least before you branch out from low-cost, broadly diversified mutual funds and ETFs like VOO, SPY, or ITOT.
Here’s one (of many, many such guides… just pick one and read it).
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You should round out your portfolio with some Beanie Babies.
tim dillon told me the beani baby market is massive
huge.
large.
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in fact that money is depreciated, especially if you pre-purchased TWW.
When the pre-purchase was announced, it was alongside a fake char creation screen that now we know we’ll never see.
In the past month (now that the time has come for blizz to give us a return on the money we invested by buying their product) char select bugs and worse layout than what we already had aside, we’ve learned that tanks and healers will be nurfed, the last trailer is ratio’d by fans, the login screen is a brown pile of 
, stops/interupts have been nurfed, Crests for gear will come at an increased 250% grindiness, the Earthen starter zone is low budge, some grindy xmogs that people just earned have had their models changed for the worst, etc, etc, etc. I didn’t even include the 2 day downtime NA got on patch release or the poorly received pre-patch event.
So yea- far from an investment.
i swear illl respond to you properly tomarrow. tonight im a messs
NO! That’s not what you should do.
if you invest it’s to make money, not to “support” businesses. The first question that should come to mind before investing is profitability, not “helping businesses”.
Right now we have inflation, and somewhat high interest rates, the whole tech sector is literally propped up by a few individual companies that are massively overvalued, especially nvidia.
And most of all, inflation and higher interest rates are INHERENTLY bad for discretionary sectors like tech.