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What are they?

For years you had to buy at least 1 share of a company if you wanted to add them to your portfolio. Back in the 1900s this wasn’t an issue because only the rich bought shares anyway and who cared about everyday people who wanted to invest?

But in the 21st Century companies want everybody to be able to buy their shares so the value of their business goes up. More new investors want to get into the stock market, and more stock dealing platforms want to gain more customers.

As some shares are now costing upwards of $3,000 a share, which is a lot of money to part with. So fractional shares were born, this is where you can buy any percentage of a share. So say Amazon was $3,000 a share, you only wanted to invest $100 (or £100) then you are now the owner of 0.0333 of a share of Amazon.

You can buy fractional shares on worldwide stocks by investing through new and exciting investment apps and platforms such as Robinhood in the US or Trading212 in the UK.

Even better, you can receive two free shares by using our referral links and downloading Trading212 and Freetrade here.

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