Team Challenge
2016
Making Money in the $tock Market
Goals & Objective:
1. Develop an understanding of the stock market.
2. Learn how to read and utilize a stock table.
3. Invest a mock $13,000 into 7 different stocks, and gold or silver
coins. Any remaining money should be deposited into a saving
account.
4. Research stocks that you feel will rise your investment portfolio
5. Be able to buy and sell stocks, keeping in mind the cost of broker
fees.
6. Every Stock bought and sold must pay a broker fee of 3% on each
transaction. Must see broker fees on transaction sheet.
7. All teams will be competing against one another. In each class
period, the team with the highest rate of return will get Ice
Cream.
 Working as a team, you will be starting with a balance of $ 13,000.
 The list below contains companies that represent different sectors
of the US economy.
 Your team will make decisions as to which company from each
sector you will invest in.
 You will be purchasing shares of stock on the same day as all the
other teams and recording that purchase.
 You must keep track of the number of shares purchase, the cost,
and the cost of the stockbroker fees. These will be kept with your
records and will be required to be turned in each week on Friday.
Places to Visit for Research on Investing
http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/
http://www.aaii.com/stocks/
http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp
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Every other Friday until the end 5/13/2016, your team will be required to
look up stock price in your investment portfolio. You will record your
current stock price and compare to price you bought at. Your team will turn
in the results to compare with the rest of the class.
o You must keep track of the number of shares purchased, the
cost, and the cost of the broker fees. Broker fees are to be
calculated as 3% of the total price of shares purchased. These
will be kept with your records and will be required to be turned
in each week on Friday.
Commercial Banks
1. Bank of America – BAC
2. Citigroup – C
3. JP Morgan Chase- JPM
4. Wells Fargo- WFC
5. CapitalOne Financial – COF
6. Huntington National Bank
7. American River Bankshares- AMRB
8. Goldman Sachs -GS
Insurance
1. American International Group – AIG
2. United Health Group – UNH
3. State Farm Group
4. Prudential Financial-PRU
5. MetLife-MET
Automobile
1. Caterpillar – CAT
2. Harley-Davidson – HOG
3. Ford Motor Co. –F
4. General Motors –GM
5. Toyota – TM
6. Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ)- TSLA
7. Honda Motor Co Ltd (NYSE)- HMC
Technology
1. Hewlett-Packard – HPQ
2. Cisco Systems- CSCO
3. Intel – INTC
4. Texas Instruments – TXN
5. Nintendo Ltd. - NTDO.Y
6. Google-Goog
7. Apple
8. Disney-DIS
9. Verizon-VZ
Oil & Gas
1. Exxon Mobil – XOM
2.
Conoco Phillips – COP
3. Chevron Corp – CVX
4.
Marathon Oil-MPC
5.
Sunoco-SUN
6.
Hess-HES
7.
Murphy Oil-MER
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6.
7.
8.
Consumer Non cyclicals
Anheuser-Busch Companies-BUD
Hain Celestial Group-HAIN
Kellogg-K
Whole Foods Market-WFMI
United Natural Foods-UNFI
Costco Wholesale-COST
Proctor & Gamble-PG
Wal-Mart Stores-WMT
Industrials
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Boeing -BA
General Dynamics-GD
Jetblue Airways-JBLU
Honeywell Intl.-HON
Illinois Tool Works-ITW
Burlington Northern-BNI
Caterpillar-CAT
Coca-Cola-KO
Gold & Silver
1. JM Bullion.com-buy Gold or Silver coin only
Company
Stock
symbol
Price per
share
Div PE
Number of
shares
purchased
Sub Total
Broker fees
Total Cost