Market Milestones
What year did the Great Depression begin?
1929
This is the ticker symbol for Tesla on the NASDAQ.
TSLA
A ratio used to value a company by dividing its stock price by its earnings per share is called this.
Price-to-earnings ratio (P/E ratio)
This Stanford dropout co-founded Apple in a garage in 1976 alongside Steve Wozniak.
Steve Jobs
These two explorers famously passed through the Omaha area in 1804 while mapping the Missouri River on the Corps of Discovery Expedition.
Lewis and Clark.
On October 19, 1987, U.S. markets experienced their largest single-day percentage drop in history. What is this day called?
Black Monday
What company trades under the ticker symbol GOOGL?
Alphabet Inc.
This term describes a situation where a company buys back its own shares from the open market, reducing the total number of shares outstanding.
Share buyback (or repurchase)
The "Oracle of Omaha"
Warren Buffett
This Fortune 500 company, still headquartered in Omaha today, fueled the city's explosive growth in the 1800s by using it as a hub for the first continental railroad.
Union Pacific Railroad
In 2008, this investment bank — once the fourth-largest in the U.S. — filed the largest bankruptcy in American history.
Lehman Brothers
What company trades under the ticker symbol MO?
Altria Group Inc.
This measure of a stock's volatility relative to the broader market tells investors how sensitive a stock is to market movements.
Beta
He founded Amazon in 1994, originally as an online bookstore, out of his garage in Bellevue, Washington.
Jeff Bezos
UNO's business school is named after this individual, a prominent Omaha businessman and philanthropist. (Full Name)
George Mammel
In 2021, this company became the first to reach a $3 trillion market capitalization.
Apple
What ticker symbol does PayPal trade under on the NASDAQ?
PYPL
This term refers to large, well-established, and financially stable companies with a long track record of reliable performance.
Blue chip companies
He co-founded Google in 1998 with Larry Page while both were PhD students at Stanford.
Sergey Brin
Warren Buffett has lived in Omaha his entire life and still resides in a home he purchased in this decade.
The 1950s (1958)
The S&P 500 lost approximately this percentage of its value during the dot-com crash between 2000 and 2002.
~49% (45-50% accepted)
What is the ticker symbol for Verizon Communications Inc.?
VZ
This term refers to a market in sustained decline of 20% or more from recent highs.
Bear market
This Taiwanese-American engineer founded the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry in 1987, known as TSMC.
Morris Chang
In 1971, UNO decided on the "Mavericks" as their new mascot. What was the runner-up option that we almost got as our mascot?
The Unicorns