Parent Companies, Ticker Symbols,
& Online Stock Quotes
- An Internet Scavenger Hunt ActivityI use the activity below in my Personal Finance class as an introduction to the stock market.
After a short discussion on key stock market terms I project the Yahoo Finance or Google
Finance website and we review key areas and information together regarding a popular
company that is geared towards teenagers. (I have quite a few athletes in my classes so one
of the popular companies the kids like to research is Nike.)
Depending on the make up of the class I may use this as a partner activity.
Parent Companies, Ticker Symbols,
& Online Stock Quotes
- An Internet Scavenger Hunt Activity1. For each company below, find their parent company, their ticker symbol and the Stock Market
where their stock is exchanged.
Product/Brand
Name
Parent
Company
Ticker
Symbol
Stock
Exchange
iMac
KFC
Minute Maid
Meow Mix
Post-it
Tylenol
2. Approximately how much would you have to pay for one share of Nike if you bought the stock
at this moment?
3. How many shares of Nike were traded since the market opened this morning?
4. How many shares of Nike are traded daily on average?
5. How much did Nike earn per share over the last year?
6. If you bought 10 shares of Nike at the lowest price for the year and sold it at the highest price for
the year, how much money would they make?
7. If you bought 100 shares of Nike at the current price but missed the chance to buy the shares at
the lowest price for the day, how much more money would you have to pay?
8. What is the value of the entire Nike corporation on the stock market today? In other words,
every share of stock that exists multiplied by the market price (a.k.a. Market Capitalization)
would be:
9. Use the Market Capitalization to calculate approximately how many shares of Nike stock there
are.
10. What was Nike's price 3 months ago?