What is a share price?
The share price is the price of one share right now — what it was last traded at. It moves all the time during exchange hours because buyers and sellers keep negotiating. The price is not the company's value; it is what someone will pay for a slice of it today.
The price is just the price — and it moves all the time.
A high price is not an expensive stock
A share at 2,000 is not more expensive than a share at 20. The price depends on how many pieces the company is divided into. A company with one million shares at 2,000 is worth exactly as much as a company with a hundred million shares at 20.
Whether a stock is dear or cheap you see instead in figures like P/E, which hold the price up against what the company earns.
Why the price jumps
Earnings, news, interest rates, mood — and sometimes nothing. A normal daily move for a large stock is around 1%. Moves of 5–10% in a day typically happen around earnings or big news. Always look for why before reacting to a jump.
Delayed prices
Price sources without a real-time licence — Kiggo included — typically show the price about 15 minutes late, because exchanges sell real-time data as a licence. For judging a stock, a quarter of an hour means nothing. Read more under real-time vs. delayed price.
The typical beginner's mistake
Checking the price ten times a day. The daily jumps are noise. What matters only becomes visible over weeks and months — and that is what moving averages and Kiggo's verdicts are made for.
How you see it in Kiggo
Kiggo shows the price large at the top of the stock page with the day's change in percent — and says itself how old the price is. Daily moves under 0.25% are shown as neutral, because they are noise. Tap the price and Kiggo explains what you are looking at.
Related terms
Frequently asked questions
What does it mean that a stock is "up 2%"?
That the price is 2% higher than yesterday's close. Own shares worth 10,000 and they are now worth about 10,200 — on paper. You have only earned the money once you sell.
Why is there a buy price and a sell price?
Because there is always a small gap between what buyers will pay and what sellers want. The gap is called the spread. See the entry on spread.
Kiggo explains — Kiggo does not advise. We never tell you what to buy or sell, and key figures can only be compared between companies in the same industry. The decision is yours. Last updated 2026-09-07.
Written by Claus Frisch, founder of Kiggo. Not an adviser, not a bank — Kiggo explains, you decide.
