Stocks

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Stocks

• Learning By Doing

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Stock Market

• Made of public corporations
• Public corporations are businesses with stock
  holders who own a share of the business
• Share holders are not responsible for the
  business or its debt

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• Sample from a stock market table 
• 1 2  3 
  4 5   6  7  
• GE  General Electric 1,121,632  18.21  17.12 
  17.55  -0.58  
• 1 - Stock ticker symbol. This is the company
  stock symbol.  Often, the stock symbol is similar
  to the company's name.  
• 2 - Company Name. 
• 3 - Sales 100s. The number of shares that traded
  the last day this stock traded.  The number is
  given in hundreds, so you need to add 2 zeros to
  the number to get the actual number of shares
  traded.
• 4 Hi. The stock's highest price the last day
  this stock traded.
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• 5 Low. The stock's lowest price the last day
  this stock traded.  
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• 6 Last. The stock's last traded price.  Also
  sometimes called closing price.  
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• 7 Change. The amount of change of the stock's
  closing price and the prior trading day's closing
  price.  A "-" represents a negative change. 

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Apple (AAPL)

• Open94.43   Volume38,988,771  
  Dividend n/a 
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• High95.21   Yield n/a 
  Shares Out888.9M
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• Low89.06   P/E Ratio17.05  
  Market Cap81.3B 
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• Bid71.00   EPS5.36  
  52wk High202.96 
• Ask100.00   Ex Dividend Date n/a   52wk
  Low79.14 

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Sectors

• One of the ways investors classify stocks is
  by type of business. The idea is to put companies
  in similar industries together for comparison
  purposes. Most analysts and financial media call
  these groupings sectors and you will often read
  or hear about how certain sector stocks are
  doing.

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• Why do I need to know what a sector is?

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Stock Project

• Today you will be working in sector groups
• Entertainment
• Retail
• Technology
• Food/dining

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Individual Responsibilities

• Read at least one article
• Article is yours to use, not to keep
• Highlight as needed
• Look up vocabulary as needed (you can write the
  meanings on the article be neat for others
  please)
• Using the Possible Stock sheet, write the name of
  the stock you read about as well as 3 things you
  learned
• If you finish before the rest of your group, read
  a 2nd article
• When everyone has finished reading at least one
  article, share with the others in your group what
  you learned about your stock
• Use the Possible Stock sheet to write the name of
  other group members stocks and include 3 things
  they told you about their stock

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Regroup

• You will be regrouped with students from the
  other sector groups
• Share what you learned about your sector stocks
• Use the Possible Stock sheet to take notes on
  what your group mates tell you about the stocks
  in their sector

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Decision Time

• You are not limited to the stocks we studied in
  class, you are welcome to do your own research
  and choose other stocks
• You have 2000 to buy the stocks of your choice
• You need to purchase 2 stocks, 3 at the most
• Use scratch paper to figure out how many shares
  you can afford
• The commission is 1 of your purchase price
• Fill out the Stock Transactions sheet

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Prices (12-5-08)

• Apple (AAPL) 94.00
• Google (GOOG) 283. 99
• McDonalds (MCD) 62.72
• Kelloggs (K) 42.73
• Nintendo (NTDOY) 42.15
• Microsoft (MSFT) 19.87
• Sony (SNE) 18.94
• Comcast (CMCSA) 16.16
• Amazon (AMZN) 48.26

• General Electric (GE) 17.85
• Wal-Mart (WMT) 58.21
• Macys (M) 8.61
• Abercrombie Fitch (ANF) 19.27
• Netflix (NFLX) 25.27
• DineEquity (DIN) 15.70
• Kraftt (KFT) 27.65
• Disney (DIS) 22.77

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• Every 2 or 3 weeks check your stocks. If you
  dont like whats happening, youre welcome to
  sell them and buy new stocks. You must always
  have at least two different stocks in your
  portfolio, but never more than three. You may
  also have cash in your portfolio.

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Winner announced May 28th

• Whoever makes the most profit WINS!