When you purchase a stock, how do you own a part of the company?

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Shane P

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It is my understanding that when you purchase a stock, you buy it from another investor that happens to be selling at the same time, unless it is an IPO, in which case it would be bought directly from the company which issued the stock. My question is how do you own a piece of the company if the stock you purchased came from another investor? The only things that come to mind are dividends and voting rights, is there anything else?
 
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