Stocks
What is a stock?
Stock is ownership in a publicly traded company.
Stock is a claim on the company’s assets and earnings.
What is a portfolio?
A collection of investments owned by an individual.
What is the difference between an investor and a trader?
Answers will vary.
What is the ticker symbol of Facebook?
META
What is the capital of Puerto Rico?
San Juan
What is a ticker symbol?
A ticker symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded stocks.
What is diversification?
Spreading your investment over multiple stocks in multiple industries or sectors
Where do we find stocks ticker symbol?
What is the meaning of “Bull market”?
The economy is great and stock prices are rising.
What is the longest river in the world?
The Amazon River
What is IPO?
Initial public offering and it's when a company is going public for very first time.
What is an industry?
A group of companies/businesses that make the same product/service.
What are the two types of market that we discussed in class?
Primary and Secondary Market.
What does it mean to short a stock? In other words what is short selling.
Short selling involves borrowing a security whose price you think is going to fall from your brokerage and selling it on the open market.
Who is currently the richest man on the planet?
Elon Musk-Tesla Founder & CEO
Payment made by corporations to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits.
What is a dividend?
List at least 5 market sectors.
Technology
Utilities
Financial
Healthcare
Telecommunication
Energy
Automotive
Retail
Insurance
Real Estate
What is a bond and what are the two different types of bonds that we discussed in class?
A bond is loan and you will get that cash back after the maturity date. During this time you will get interest payment.
The two types of bonds discussed in class were government and corporate bonds.
What is “day’s range”?
The current day’s price range.
What year was the first I-phone released?
June 2007
What are the two types of stocks?
Common Stock and Preferred stock
Why diversify?
Provide 2 reasons.
Diversification REDUCES Risk!
Diversification allows for growth across your portfolio in multiple industries
Diversification rule: Select investments from at least three different sectors
Where do we find information on company’s long term debt & liabilities?
Financials tabs → Balance Sheet
What is DOW JONES 30?
Stock market index that measures the performance of 30 largest companies listed on the market.
List the capitals of the following countries:
Germany
Japan
Argentina
Sweden
Berlin
Tokyo
Buenos Aire
Stockholm