Stock Market Project
What is a stock?
• Stock is ownership in a company.
What makes a stock go up and down?
• Supply and Demand.
Stock Symbol, or ticker symbol
• Each company that sells stock is listed on the
stock market. They are given a symbol, like an
abreviation.
• Google’s symbol is GOOG
Stock Market project
• Each team gets $100,000 to invest
• You will be put into teams
• The team that makes the most money in 10
weeks wins.
Portfolio
• All of the money and investments added together.
Google
10 shares $500.00 per share
$5000
McDonalds 100 shares$ 20.00 per share $2000
Cash
$3000
The team with the highest portfolio wins.
PowerPoint Assignment
• Pick three companies that sell stock
• You can pick more, but three must be included in
the assignment
• You must include the share price (price per share)
• You must include the 52 week range (high and
low for the year)
• You must include company logo, where it is
headquartered, and what competitors there are.
• You must identify at least one competitor.
Sample of Resources
• Yahoo Finance
• Morningstar.com (Stock Research at the bottom
right hand side)
• Marketwatch.com
• www.stockpickr.com
• www.thestreet.com
• http://ohiosmc.stocktrak.com/ (contest site)
• Google company name for corporate information
Financial Fridays
• You will be assigned each Friday to turn in at
least one article about one of the companies
you own stock in.
• You will be assigned also to turn in your
portfolio balance and current ranking in the
contest each week
Annual Report
Must include the following:
• Total ending portfolio balance
• Ranking
• What stock did best for you? What sector is it from?
• What stock did the worst? What sector?
• Each member of the team will be required to write a
reflective essay about what they learned about the
stock market including whether you would consider
purchasing stocks in the future.
Total points 20 points.
• Google is America’s number one search
engine.
• 90-100 million people Google each day.
Google is profitable
• Google made $4.9 Billion Dollars in the 4th
Quarter (three month period) of 2009.
Company Headquarters: The
Googleplex
• The Googleplex is located in Mountain View,
California.
Google stock information
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Google is part of the technology sector.
Current share price is
52wk Range:
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Google is the largest search engine in the world
They make billions of dollars in advertising and
continue to find new ways to make money. I believe.
Major competitor is Yahoo.
Google’s share price will go up in the next ten weeks
and well into the future.
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Google 1 year stock price chart