Sam cuts up Lemon Co.Sam's Lemon Co. sold lemonade all summer, and the line never ended, so Sam dreamed of a second stand. It would cost 120 pretend coins, but Sam's jar held only two. "What if other people owned a little of Lemon Co.?" Sam wondered. So Sam cut Lemon Co. into ten equal slices, each worth twenty coins. A slice of a company is called a share, or a stock. Sam sold six slices: Maya bought two, Nico bought one and Ana bought three. Sam kept four. The six slices filled the jar with 120 coins, and the second stand opened. People who own a company's slices are called shareholders. At the end of summer Lemon Co. had earned thirty coins. Thirty coins shared by ten slices is three coins a slice, so Maya got six, Nico three, Ana nine and Sam twelve. Sharing earnings with owners is called a payout. Then the townspeople expected Lemon Co. to do well, so a slice sold for twenty-four. Maya's two slices were worth forty-eight, though she had paid forty. She could sell a slice to Ana at a price they agreed on. The buyer is another person, and the company is not part of the swap. Next summer it rained, people expected less, and a slice dropped to sixteen. Maya's two slices were worth thirty-two, less than she paid. Nobody made a mistake, because a price follows what people expect.