Stock Market Project What is a stock Stock

Stock Market Project

What is a stock? • Stock is ownership in a company.

What makes a stock go up and down? • Supply and Demand.

Stock Symbol, or ticker symbol • Each company that sells stock is listed on the stock market. They are given a symbol, like an abreviation. • Google’s symbol is GOOG

Stock Market project • Each team gets $100, 000 to invest • You will be put into teams • The team that makes the most money in 10 weeks wins.

Portfolio • All of the money and investments added together. Google 10 shares $500. 00 per share $5000 Mc. Donalds 100 shares$ 20. 00 per share $2000 Cash $3000 The team with the highest portfolio wins.

Power. Point Assignment • Pick three companies that sell stock • You can pick more, but three must be included in the assignment • You must include the share price (price per share) • You must include the 52 week range (high and low for the year) • You must include company logo, where it is headquartered, and what competitors there are. • You must identify at least one competitor.

Sample of Resources • Yahoo Finance • Morningstar. com (Stock Research at the bottom right hand side) • Marketwatch. com • www. stockpickr. com • www. thestreet. com • http: //ohiosmc. stocktrak. com/ (contest site) • Google company name for corporate information

Financial Fridays • You will be assigned each Friday to turn in at least one article about one of the companies you own stock in. • You will be assigned also to turn in your portfolio balance and current ranking in the contest each week

Annual Report Must include the following: • Total ending portfolio balance • Ranking • What stock did best for you? What sector is it from? • What stock did the worst? What sector? • Each member of the team will be required to write a reflective essay about what they learned about the stock market including whether you would consider purchasing stocks in the future. Total points 20 points.

• Google is America’s number one search engine. • 90 -100 million people Google each day.

Google is profitable • Google made $4. 9 Billion Dollars in the 4 th Quarter (three month period) of 2009.

Company Headquarters: The Googleplex • The Googleplex is located in Mountain View, California.

Google stock information • • • Google is part of the technology sector. Current share price is 52 wk Range: • • Google is the largest search engine in the world They make billions of dollars in advertising and continue to find new ways to make money. I believe. Major competitor is Yahoo. Google’s share price will go up in the next ten weeks and well into the future. • •

Google 1 year stock price chart