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Opportunities for Above-Market Returns with Stock Investments at İktisatbank
If you would like to invest your savings in the opportunities offered by Borsa İstanbul and global stock exchanges, you can start trading stocks and ETFs by opening an investment account at İktisatbank. At our Bank, stock transactions are carried out through recorded telephone orders.
Stock Exchanges Available for Trading
You no longer have to limit your stock investments to Borsa İstanbul (Türkiye). In today's evolving market conditions and the age of artificial intelligence, İktisatbank offers investors the opportunity to trade foreign-currency-denominated stocks and ETFs listed on global exchanges with the potential to deliver above-market returns.
With İktisatbank, you can buy and sell shares in overseas companies for profit, become a shareholder in those companies, and make short-, medium-, and long-term investments. İktisatbank provides foreign stock and ETF trading services across 12 countries.
Ways to Earn Returns from Stock Investments
Capital appreciation: If a stock's price rises over time, a share purchased at a lower price can be sold at a higher price for a profit. However, this does not mean that prices will always rise; stock prices can also fall.
Dividends (profit share): Some companies may regularly distribute a portion of their profits to shareholders. When you buy shares in a publicly traded company, you become a shareholder in a certain proportion and may benefit when this return is distributed. Dividend payments depend on the company's performance and decisions and are not a guaranteed source of income. Nevertheless, this feature, which has formed the basis of earning a share of profits since the concept of partnership emerged, has enabled individual investors to receive dividend returns from companies through the development of stock exchanges.
Points to Consider When Investing in Stocks
Before you start trading on the stock market, you should make sure that you have some investment experience. Instead of investing in companies operating in sectors you do not know, it is advisable to consider shares in sectors you understand or know about.
Before you begin investing, it is useful to find answers to questions such as what a stock exchange is, what it does, which transactions take place there, and how those transactions work. Understanding how the stock market operates helps you evaluate your savings more consciously.
Stocks may offer higher return potential than products with low or moderate risk profiles, but they also carry a much greater possibility of a loss in principal value than those products.
The information on this page does not constitute investment advice and is provided for informational purposes only.
Frequently Asked Questions About Stocks
Stocks are securities issued by corporations to document their shareholders' ownership interests in the company's capital. Each share represents one of the equal parts of a company's capital and offers companies a way to raise funds for growth and investment. Owning stock means becoming a shareholder in that company.
You can start investing in stocks after opening an investment account at your nearest İktisatbank branch. Transactions are carried out by calling Telephone Banking at +90(392)444-4444.
Although stocks offer some of the highest return potential among investment instruments, price fluctuations can cause a loss of principal. Unlike bonds or deposit products, stocks do not have a fixed maturity or a guaranteed return. Overseas investments also involve foreign exchange risk.
An ETF, or Exchange Traded Fund, is an investment instrument that tracks an index, commodity, or basket of assets and can be bought and sold on a stock exchange throughout the trading day, like a stock.