Stock Table
Stock Market Basics
Financials
Money Making
100
Column 1
What is the column that gives us the 52 week high?
100
A one-character to three-character, alphabetic root symbol, which represents a publicly traded company on a stock exchange?
What is a Stock Symbol?
100
The portion of a profit that is paid to a stockowner?
What is the Dividend?
100
The number of shares traded in a companies stock
What is the Volume?
200
Column 4
Where can you find the Stock Symbol for each individual stock?
200
The practice of buying and selling within the same trading day, before the close of the markets on that day?
What is Day Trading?
200
The monetary value of earnings per outstanding share of common stock for a company?
What is Earnings Per Share (EPS)
200
The relationship between a company's earnings and its share price
What is the PE Ratio?
300
The volume of shares traded in that specific stock
What does column 8 represent?
300
A person who buys or sells an investment for you in exchange for a fee or commission?
What is a Broker?
300
A collection of of investments owned by an investor
What is a Portfolio?
300
A financial instrument that represents an ownership position in a publicly traded corporation
What is a Security?
400
Column 10
Where can the day low be found?
400
A unit of ownership in a cooperation or a mutual fund?
What is a Share?
400
Something that allows someone to take out a loan from a broker to purchase an investment
What is a Margin?
400
The sale of a security that is not owned by the seller, or that the seller has borrowed
What is Short Selling
500
Column 12
The net change for the day can be found in what column?
500
A place in which different investments are traded?
What is an Exchange?
500
The simple ratio of annual dividends divided by the share price
What is the Yield
500
Used to limit your losses by taking an offsetting position
What is a Hedge?
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