[thunky]

> For some reason, retail investors look at the price when buying a car, but not at the price of a company when buying a stock.

This because these are very different processes from the buyer's perspective:

A retail stock investor primarily decides to spend $x on some ticker, and then they divide $x by the current share price to determine how many shares to buy (or they buy fractional shares if their platform supports it). So they can "own" NVDA by paying whatever amount they choose.

This is the opposite from buying a car, where the buyer has to pay the full sticker price all or nothing.