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Answer by hroptatyr for Does a stock's price represent current liquidation of all shares?

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Is the stock's price at any given moment the price at which all shares could be sold to new investors?

No. For the simple fact that the current bid/offer always have sizes associated.

What you should be looking at is the consolidated price to buy/sell X shares (10bn doesn't really work as not everyone is willing to sell/buy).

If you look at the spread of the consolidated price at your quantity level, you'd notice it would be in stark contrast to the spread of the best bid/offer but (by definition) that would be the price to buy or sell X shares to new investors.

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Calculation of the consolidated price of X shares: You go through the order book and calculate the size-weighted average price until you covered X.

Example:

    bids 1000 40.00 1000 39.80 1000 39.60

So the consolidated price for 3000 shares would be $39.80, the consolidated price for 2000 shares would be $39.90.


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