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Selling shares
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If the price of shares in a PLC are going down and you want to sell them, will you always be able to. Is the company obliged to buy them back.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Generally speaking, the company is not obliged to buy them back. You would have to sell them on the secondary market, to somebody else interested in buying them.
The laws of supply and demand set the price, so if everybody is trying to sell, the value will drop.
In some markets, there is very low liquidity (ie not many willing buyers) and so you would struggle to sell. You may be stuck with them forever!