Stock market In a broad sense we call it as Capital market which is the source of long term capital for the growth of companies, a private or public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives of company stock at an agreed price; both of these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.
Stock exchange is just the part of this big capital market which allows complete transparency, liquidity of investment. Investors have the cash readily available for new investments. The main feature which is the core of attraction than the banks and lending institutions is the short term finance.
Playing or investing in stock market needs some technical and fundamental analysis like informations of company, prices of shares, dividends announced by the company, growth rate etc....
Financial experts divide and place the companies into the following groups by taking care of their number of shares in the market and its future potential

  • Blue Chips : blue chip stocks are mostly defined as companies whose stocks have large market capitalization values . They are valued by investors seeking relative safety and stability, though prices per share are usually high. Typically, such stocks are perceived to offer reliable returns, low yield, and low risk. Theses companies announced dividends even when market is low so that investors have the options to choose for the better investments.
  • Growth Stocks : Shares of these companies grows faster even subsets, these companies least times announce the dividends but their return are not high like blue chips companies. the share value of these companies have high value and they maintain their growth momemtum than inflation the overall economy.
  • Income stocks :This companies offers high return on dividends. because of that investors have regular income Shares of these companies use Mutual funds.
  • Defensive stocks : Share values of these companies remain stable which minimises risk when market goes down. they helps in regaining the market economy.