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How The Stock Market Works

How The Stock Market Works. A B C D E F G Hi Lo Stock Div. Sale Hi Lo Last Chg 92 22 WMT .45 4800 56 40 48 +2

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How The Stock Market Works

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  1. How The Stock Market Works

  2. A B C D E F G Hi Lo Stock Div. Sale Hi Lo Last Chg 92 22 WMT .45 4800 56 40 48 +2 A. Highest & lowest paid price for the stock for this year B. Name of the stock C. Dividend Percent of profit per share of stock Paid quarterly (every 3 months) Example—You own 5 shares of stock .45 X 5 shares = 2.25% D. Sale=Amount of stock traded in one day To calculate, add two zeros if using newspaper Automatically added on Yahoo 480,000 E. Highest & lowest paid for the day F. Last=What the stock cost at the end of the day Closing cost for the stock  G. Change=What the difference is from what the stock closed at yesterday and what it closed at today Example-- +2 means up $2 from yesterday’s close Yesterday’s close is $46

  3. Hi Lo Stock Div. Sale Hi Lo Last Chg  • 68 42 WMT 1.08 10789 56.7 49.2 54.7 -1.79 • If you have 32 shares, what is your % of profit? • How many shares were traded today? • What was the low of today? • What did the stock open at today? • What will it open at tomorrow? • What is the high of the year? • How much did the stock make or lose today? • What was the low of the year? • What is the high of today?

  4. Hi Lo Stock Div. Sale Hi Lo Last Chg • 18 10 BBY .16 4750 13 11 12.5 +1 • What is the highest Best Buy was today? • What is the low of the year? • How many shares were traded today? • If you own 28 shares, what is your % of profit? • What did the stock open at today? • What will the stock open at tomorrow? • What is the high of the year?

  5. Hi Lo Stock Div. Sale Hi Lo Last Chg • 90 62 SHLD 1.7 1095 88 80 86 -1 • 50 32 SNE .5 48765 50 40 50 +1 • 77 61 GOOG .75 420 70 61 61 -4 • 104 28 GM 2.25 86542 90 56 88 +2 • If you owned 4 shares of each company, how much would you make in the 1st 3 months? • How many shares of stock were traded today? • What is the most the stock has ever been worth? • What is wrong with investing in Google? Why might it be good? • What did the stock close out at? • Does Sony look promising? Why or why not? • What is the lowest ever paid for GM? • At close, if you had $500, how many shares of Sony could you buy?

  6. Hi Lo Stock Div. Sale Hi Lo Last Chg • 104 96 IBM 1.09 3945 100 97 99.5 -1.5 • 86 70 JCP .50 629 80 74 75 +.50 • 98 60 ATT 1.02 7594 97 90 92 -3.50 • 81 74 GPS .45 394 80 70 80 -1 • 68 59 COLM .30 594 64 60 63.5 +1.5 • Highest price stock for the last 52 weeks? • How many shares were bought and sold? • How much of the company’s profit paid to the stockholders? You have 18 shares. • What was the closing price today and yesterday? • How much to buy one share of stock at close? If you have $10,000 to invest, how much of each can you buy?

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