To buy shares in Woodbois (LON:WBI), you need a trading or share dealing account that lets you invest in smaller-cap stocks. This is because as of 22/01/2025 13:17 Woodbois’ market cap is only £5,943,366 (as of 22/01/2025 13:17). However, before investing in slightly more illiquid companies, there are a few things you need to know. In this guide, we take you through how to buy Woodbois shares and what to watch out for.
🧑🎓Follow these three steps if you want to buy shares in Woodbois:
- Open an investment account with a stock broker that offers access to the AIM market where Woodboise is traded, like Hargreaves Lansdown, AJ Bell or Interactive Investor.
- Deposit funds from your bank account or debit card.
- Search for the symbol “WBI” on the investment platform
- Enter the number of shares you want to buy (or you can choose to buy as an amount and the platform will round it down to the nearest amount of whole shares. At the moment, you cannot buy fractional shares in Woodbois.
- Click buy, and you will own shares in Woodbois, and they will sit in your investment account
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🤔Note: Woobois is listed on AIM, not the main LSE market.
As Woodbois is a small-cap stock, there will be a large spread between the buy and sell price. It may be worth setting a limit price in between to get a better fill. You can see in this screenshot from Hargreaves Lansdown that the bid-offer is 70p to sell and 73p to buy. That’s a difference of over 4%.
How to buy Woodbois shares
There are a few different ways to buy Woodbois shares and some come with very good tax benefits.
- GIA – a general investment account where tax is payable on Woodbois share price gains and dividends
- Investment ISA – a stocks and shares ISA where profits and income from Woodbois dividends are tax-free – (note Woodboise does not pay a dividend)
- SIPP – a self-invested pension where you can buy Woodbois shares for your retirement. Profits are tax-free, but you only get them at retirement age.
What is the live Woodbois (LON:WBI) share price?
As of 22/01/2025 13:17 the current Woodbois (LON:WBI) share price is 0.12p which is a change of 0.01 or -4.86% from the last closing price of 0.12 with 17,357,659 shares traded giving Woodbois a market capitalisation of £5,943,366. The most recent daily high has been 0.14 and daily low 0.12. The Woodbois share price 52 week high has been 0.95 and the 52 week low 0.12.
How much does it cost to buy Woodbois (LON:WBI) shares?
As of 22/01/2025 13:17 buying one LON:WBI share costs 0.12p. However, as well as the 0.12p cost of buying the shares you will also have to pay stamp duty, commission when you buy and sell shares and custody fees for holding your shares on your account. You also have to consider the difference between the bid price (the price at which you sell shares) and the offer price (the price at which you buy shares). These fees vary depending on what sort of account you open, and with what broker. You can compare the different costs associated with the different types of trading and investing accounts in our comparison tables below.
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