GTA 5 Stock Market Guide

By Matt GibbsUpdated Dec 10, 2025

Sep 25, 2013

Basically, it boils down buying and sell specific stocks before and after you complete the assassination missions for Lester (which are a big part of the single player story line).

Story Affected Stocks

LifeInvader and Richards Majestic

You should not invest in LifeInvader or Richards Majestic. LifeInvader will decrease in value after Friend Request, and Richards Majestic decreases at a later point in the game. The key issue with these two is that they never regain their original values.

Vangelico

Vangelico will decrease in value after The Jewel Store Job and increase after Minor Turbulence, for about a 40% return if you buy at its low and sell at its high.

FlyUS

FlyUS will decrease in value by about 50% after Legal Trouble and increase to its original value after Meltdown, for a 100% return if you buy at its low and sell at its high.

Cluckin' Bell

Cluckin' Bell will decrease in value after Paleto Score and Gruppe Sachs will decrease in value after The Big Score (subtle version). These two, along with Augury Insurance and Merryweather (which do not decrease in value during the game), will increase for high returns based on your ending decision.

Cluckin' Bell will increase to its original value if you go with The Third Way (Deathwish) ending choice, for about a 65% return if you buy at its low and sell at its high. Gruppe Sachs will also increase to its original value, for about a 30% — 35% return if you buy at its low and sell at its high. Augury Insurance will double in value, for a 100% return.

However, if you pick The Third Way, Merryweather will decrease in value by over 50% and never return to its original value. To make money by investing in Merryweather, you should choose The Time's Come. It will increase in value for about a 250% return.

High Frequency Stock Trading

This only works for LCN stocks and do make it worthwhile you need A LOT of money. For this reason it is good to do after you've finished all of Lester's assassination missions, for example. You should also know that the prices of the LCN stocks will refresh every 45 seconds while you're doing this.

eCola Stock

Our eCola stock market guide has its own page here. By following the steps you can earn a ton of money early on in single player mode.

List of Stock Tickers for all LCN Stocks

ARK — AnimalArk
AUG — AuguryInsurance
BAN — CoolBeans
BEN — BeanMachine
BGR — BurgerShot
BIL — Bilkington
BOL — BankOfLiberty
BOM — BobMulét
BUL — Bullhead
CLK — CluckinBell
DEB — Debonaire
DOP — DollarPills
ECL — eCola
EMU — AirEmu
FLC — Fleeca
FUS — FlyUS
GAS — GastroBand
GCD — GoldCoast
GOP — GoPostal
GRU — GruppeSechs
HAF — Hammerstein&Faust
HKJ — Hijak
KRP — Krapea
LFI — Lifeinvader
LOG — Logger
MAX — MaxRenda
MAZ — MazeBank
MER — Merryweather
MOR — MorsMutualInsurance
POP — PostOP
PRO — ProLaps
RAI — Raine
RIM — RichardsMajestic
RLS — RadioLosSantos
RWC — Redwood
SSS — Slaughter,Slaughter&Slaughter
TBO — TacoBomb
UNI — VanillaUnicorn
UPA — Up-n-Atom
VAG — Vangelico
WFM — WorldwideFM

Radio Stock Tips

If you listen often to talk back radio stations then you're more likely to hear about stock tips. If you do happen to hear something, load up on the stock being discussed to profit.

Stock Market — Buy Cheap and Sell High

Here's a way to score some cheap stock and then also increase its value.

This tactic hinges on the company rivalry/competitor system, and is centered around the Los Santos International Airport. If you check out our chart above, you'll note that AirEMU and FlyUS are rival airline companies, and this can be used to earn big time. Before starting this, make sure to save your game so you have a restore point with all your money in case something goes wrong.

To start out, you need to purchase all the AirEMU stock that you can. After that, start destroying FlyUS planes at the airport. There should be plenty, and the large liveries on the sides of the planes will let you know what airline they belong to. By destroying the planes, you can steadily decrease FlyUS' market value, thus increasing AirEMU.

By piloting FlyUS planes and crashing them, you can decrease their value by a greater magnitude, but this is pretty time-consuming. After you have destroyed a bunch of planes, commit suicide or go to sleep at one of your properties, but do not save the game. Check the stock market a few times, and keep killing yourself/sleeping until the profit percentage increases. I can go as high as 10%, but if it stops increasing after a while just get your winnings and sell as high as you can.

Tinkle Stock Tip

Ideally this is best done later in the game when you have serious cash to invest...

First get all your characters to invest in Tinkle (TNK) on the BAWSAQ.
Then head to Hitch Lift 1 using Michael as your character and you'll see a guy to pick up.
You need to take him to the Airport and along the way he'll tell you about a particular stock that is going to increase in value.
$Profit$

Trading Days and Advancing Time

Each trading day on the stock market begins at 8am (except weekends), so if you are advancing time, then make sure you check it at 8am each day. Advancing time via sleeping will put your forward 8 hours.

And if you want to advance time more quickly/efficiently, you don't have to actually save. Instead just go head into the save screen when at a bed and then exit. This is enough to advance time.

Competitor 1	Competitor 2
CoolBeans	BeanMachine
Burgershot	Up-An-Atom
Clucking Bell	TacoBomb
FlyUS	AirEmu
GoPostal	PostOP
Bilkington	DollarPills
Pisswasser	Logger
MazeBank	BankOfLiberty
Redwood	Debonaire
Slaughter, Slaughter & Slaughter	Bullhead
RadioLosSantos	WorldwideFM
eCola	Raine
Merryweather	GruppeSechs