What's My Symbol?
Directions: Using the reference materials available to you, find the name of the trading symbols
that have the following companies. You must also list the price that stock is trading at at the
time you find it. You can use http://finance.yahoo.com/ for this information.
1. K Mart = ___________
2. Wal Mart = ___________
3. Chrysler Corporation = ___________
4. Kellogg Company = ___________
5. Genome Therapeutics = ___________
6. Cisco Systems = ___________
7. Johnson & Johnson = ___________
8. Ford Motor Company = ___________
9. Oracle Corporation = ___________
10. Apple Computers = ___________
11. AT&T Wireless = ___________
12. Verizon = ___________
13. Apple = ___________
14. Google = _____________
15. Coco Cola = _____________
16. McDonald's = _____________
Name ___________________________ Date ____________________
Calculating Your Return on Investment (ROI)
Many times when investing money; people lose sight of why they are investing that money. The
point is to make more money from your current money.
It’s great to get a $100 return from an investment. Would you rather have someone give you
$100 of their money for $9 of your money or $99 of your money? $9 would put you in a much
better position. In this case you are risking a lot less of your own money.
You can calculate the return of money on your investment using this calculation:
ROI % = Gain from Investment – Money Invested x
Money Invested
100
For example if Judy invests $350 in a bond fund and after one year that investment is now
worth $430 her ROI can be calculated by:
430 – 350
350
x 100 = 22.86%
1. Calculate the ROI of an investment that you purchased at $5,382 and sold at $7,129.
2. What is the ROI of your mutual funds that you buy at $35,982 and sell at $41,938?
3. You purchase 12 shares of Bobby Toy Corp. stock at $31.25. You sell all the shares at $42.93,
what is your ROI?
Name ___________________________ Date ____________________
Reading the Language of the Street
Directions: Using the data table as a reference, answer the questions below.
52 Week
Stock
High
Low
644.00 310.50 Apple
670.25 473.02 Google
15.37
9.05
Ford
Div
0
0
1.87
Yld
%
7.26
10.9
-1.2
P/E
13.78
18.52
2.13
Sales
High
Low
Last
100s
189282 578.36 565.17 581.82
24704 607.89 596.81 596.97
5327
10.87 10.63 10.67
1. How many trades of Apple were made?
2. What is the common stock dividend of each of these companies stocks?
Apple _______ Ford _______
3. Which stock is trading closest to its high of the year?
4. What was the decrease in the dollar value of Google stock today?
5. What was Ford's closing price?
6. Which company has the most attractive P/E ratio? Why?
7. If you bought 100 shares of Google at its low for the year and sold it at this day's closing
price, what would be your capital gain?
Chg
-2.85%
-2.30%
-2.29%