fractional

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Tokenization also makes expensive blue-chip stocks accessible through fractional ownership, allowing anyone to buy a small digital slice of a company for just a few dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Nobody who bought Standard Oil stock could explain fractional distillation either.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 28, 2025

"This new discovery of fractional electron distribution establishes an entirely new scientific foundation for understanding catalysts that we believe will drive new energy technologies over the next several decades."

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025

They’re designed to reduce a stock’s price to make it more affordable for individual investors, though in the days of fractional share purchases, that argument is less compelling that it once might have been.

From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025

There was a quiet permission given with that fractional gesture, a permission he hadn’t realized he wanted until he had it.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray