Tag: NASDAQ

What stock exchange is the company stock traded on (ex. NYSE, NASDAQ)?Would you buy stock and invest in this company? Explain your decision.

Would you Invest?

A 10-K is a comprehensive report filed annually by a publicly-traded company about its financial performance and is required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Research and review the website of the company you chose for most of this information needed below:

Describe how you would review your organization’s financial standing.

What stock exchange is the company stock traded on (ex. NYSE, NASDAQ)?

Price of 1 share of company stock 1 year ago

Price of 1 share of company stock today

Research why the stock rose or fell over the course of a year – did anything happen within or to the company to cause a stock increase or decrease?

Investment Opportunity

Would you buy stock and invest in this company? Explain your decision.

Resource number 1:

Nickels, W. (2020). Understanding Business: The Core (2nd Edition). McGraw-Hill Higher Education (US).

 

Describe the common stock that you located, including a link to the web page where you located the information about the stock.Explain what the value of the stock is and describe how you determined its value.

Post a 150- to 225-word (2- to 3-paragraph) explanation of the value of your selected common stock. In your explanation, do the following:

Describe the common stock that you located, including a link to the web page where you located the information about the stock.

Explain what the value of the stock is and describe how you determined its value.

Provide a rationale for why or why not you would recommend investing in the stock.

To support your response, be sure to reference at least one properly cited scholarly source.

Locate a common stock to use for this Discussion. (Note: You could use the NASDAQ site from the Week 2 Discussion, or you could search for a stock on Google Finance or Yahoo Finance.)

What are the factors that affect how the stock market performs?Where do you see the stock market going over the next three months? One year? Three years?

Securities, Market Functions, and Performance Evaluation

This week you will provide an overview of the stock market and evaluate its past performance. Your discussion should include:
General
• The structure of the stock market and how it operates

• How transactions are conducted in the stock market

• Securities that could be bought or sold in the stock market

• Other available financial instruments besides stocks

• How they are used
Evaluation of Overall Stock Market Performance Using the Main Indexes:

• Compare and contrast the three major stock market indexes (i.e. Dow Jones Industrial Average, SP 500, and NASDAQ Composite).

• Graph the performance of indexes from 1996 to present.

• Analyze the trends and explain the major events from 1996.

• Discuss the overall economic outlook and analysts’ forecast of the stock market.

• What are the factors that affect how the stock market performs?

• Where do you see the stock market going over the next three months? One year? Three years?