Each share of stock should be viewed as a miniature factory

Clyde & Dale's Barrel Factory - N Scale

This is how I view investing. I'm playing a "game" like Monopoly. Investing is buying little tiny companies - each individual share of stock is like a miniature factory. I ask these questions:

• Is it profitable?
• Is it viable? (Clyde & Dale's Barrel Factory is cute but few are buying barrels!)
• Is it part of a mix? A Coca-Cola bottling plant, an aircraft factory, a bank, et cetera. (If you have every played the simulation game - Sim City - this analogy may make sense)
• Does it return part of the profit to the owner? The dividend.