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Stock Basics
#1 Shares of ownership in the assets and earnings of a company. What is a stock?
#2 When a share of stock worth $100.00 becomes 2 shares of stock worth $50.00 each. What is a stock split?
#3 The type of stock which pays fixed dividends and owners do not have voting rights. What is a preferred stock?
#4 Dividends for each stock are stated as a percentage What is par value?
#5 These can be paid in the form of cash, company products, property, discounts, and additional stocks. These can be paid annually, quarterly, monthly, etc. What are dividends?
Common Stock
#1 This type of stock is from companies who operate in major consumer dependent industries such as automobiles and airlines. What is a cyclical stock?
#2 Jamison Industries is celebrating the company’s 100th anniversary. It dominates the industry with a long standing reputation for quality products and customer service. The type of stock Jamison Industries offers is known as What is a blue chip stock?
#3 These companies have a spotty earning pattern, but have potential for substantial earnings in the future, pharmaceutical companies are represented by this type of stock. They are very high risk stocks What is a speculative Stock?
#4 This is calculated by multiplying the number of outstanding shares by the current stock price. What is Market Capitalization?
#5 Joey Vietor is 60 years old and about to retire. He has some money he would like to invest in a stock which will pay high dividends because the company chooses to retain only a small portion of its profits. The type of stock Joey should invest assumes low risk. What is an income stock?
Researching a Company
#1 This term represents the net worth of a company. What is Book Value?
#2 This indicator is determined by dividing the corporation’s after-tax annual earnings by the total number of shares of common stock. What is earnings per share (EPS)?
#3 The ratio that indicates how much an investor is willing to pay for each dollar of a company’s earnings. What is P/E (Price Earnings) ratio?
#4 This indicator measures the stock’s volatility to changes in the overall stock market. What is beta?
#5 Most successful companies' P/E ratio. What is 5 to 25?
Reading a Stock Quote
#1 The abbreviation for the company trading. What is stock or ticker symbol?
#2 Change in price since 1/1 What is Year to date percentage (YTD%)?
#3 If the P/E ratio of a company is 15, the stock’s market price worth for every dollar the company earns. What is $15.00?
#4 The number of shares if the VOL 100’s number is 503. What is 503,000?
#5 This is the difference between the closing price of the share from the prior day and the current day. A loss is indicated by a minus sign. What is Net Change?
Purchasing a Stock
#1 This is the largest stock exchange with the strictest company standards. What is the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)?
#2 The stock market is based upon this economic law. What is the law of supply and demand?
#3 This person is licensed to buy and sell stocks, provide investment advice, and collect a commission on each purchase or sale. What is a broker?
#4 These exchanges are in specific geographical area such as Boston, Cincinnati, Intermountain, Midwest, Philadelphia, and Spokane. What is a regional stock exchange?
#5 This has more than 3,300 small American and foreign companies listed. The company requirements are not as strict as NYSE. What is NASDAQ?
Final Question
The acronym NASDAQ stands for What is National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations?