A stock certificate represents your share of a company.

Nowadays, however, you don’t get the hold of these fancy papers with company logo and stuff, you only get to see your share online.

Of course, there are only exceptions, especially if you trade stocks with old school methods.

This is a pretty great improvement of the modern age since, in the “old days”, people had to go down to the brokerage with their stock certificates and sell them personally.

In the 21st century, you can do the latter by only clicking on a tab or by a phone call.