> This is the amount that would be required to buy all the stock and thereby gain 100% ownership. This is not true. Stock price is marginal price of a share -

> This is the amount that would be required to buy all the stock and thereby gain 100% ownership. This is not true. Stock price is marginal price of a share -- the point at which all sellers are askin more than all buyers are accepting, not the price that every share would sell for.