A Stock Market Primer Honors

Use the links to the following web sites to answer the questions below:

http://www.msfinancialsavvy.com/stocks101/index.php

Stock Quotes

1. What is stock?
2. What happens when you purchase stock?
3. How do corporations raise money to expand or make improvements?
4. Name the three major markets through which stocks are traded.
5. What accounts for the knowledge “gap” about the stock market between men and women?
6. What are the three risk factors of stocks?
7. What is a Blue Chip stock?
8.  Why are Blue Chip stocks considered low risk stocks?
9. What is a growth stock?

10. What is a “no load” stock?

11. What is a speculative stock?

12.  What stocks are considered high risk stocks?

13. What is asset allocation and how does it protect investors?

14. Why do many Americans invest in the stock market?

15. What is a dividend?

16. What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

17. What are the stock symbols for the following companies?

     a. The Walt Disney Company

     b. Exxon Mobil

     c. Coca Cola

     d. McDonald’s

18. How much would it cost you to purchase a single share of stock in Home Depot?

19. How much would it cost you to purchase 100 shares of stock in McDonald’s?

20. How much would it cost you to purchase 150 shares of stock in the Walt Disney Corporation?

21. How much would it cost you to purchase 500 shares of stock in Exxon Mobil?

22. How much would it cost you to purchase 1000 shares of stock in Microsoft Corporation?

A Stock Market Primer College Prep

Use the links to the following web sites to answer the questions below:

http://www.msfinancialsavvy.com/stocks101/index.php

Stock Quotes

1. What is stock?
2. What happens when you purchase stock?
3. How do corporations raise money to expand or make improvements?
4. Name the three major markets through which stocks are traded.
5. Identify the three risk groups of stocks
6. What is a Blue Chip stock?
7. Why are Blue Chip stocks considered low risk stocks?

8. What stocks are considered high risk stocks?

9. What is asset allocation and how does it protect investors?

10. Why do many Americans invest in the stock market?

11. What is a dividend?

12. What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

13. What are the stock symbols for the following companies?

     a. The Walt Disney Company

     b. Exxon Mobil

     c. Coca Cola

     d. McDonald’s

     e. Home Depot

     f. Microsoft

Use the link to Stock Quotes (above) to answer the following questions:

14. How much would it cost you to purchase a single share of stock in Home Depot?

15. How much would it cost you to purchase 100 shares of stock in McDonald’s?

16. How much would it cost you to purchase 150 shares of stock in the Walt Disney Corporation?

17. How much would it cost you to purchase 500 shares of stock in Exxon Mobil?

18. How much would it cost you to purchase 1000 shares of stock in Microsoft Corporation?

19. How much would it cost to purchase 1500 shares of stock in Coca Cola?

20. Which is the difference in price between one share of stock in Microsoft and one share of stock in Apple?