During this term of Finance and Investment, I learned how to invest carefully, what other types of investing there were other than stocks, and how I will manage my money better when I begin live on my own in the near future. I was also a part of an investing game, in which I made about $2,337.31 in profit.
The stocks I invested in were BSX (Boston Scientific, $10,180.17), CKEC (Carmike Cinemas, $10,204.32), CMG (Chipotle, $1,844.84), COF (Capital One, $9,806.55), CPN (Calpine Corp. $9,920.30), FEYE (FireEye Inc. $9,904.23), HSY (Hershey, $10,120), MERC (Mercer International, $10,444.72), OXY (Occidental Petroleum Corp., $9,852.64), T (AT&T, $10,026.60), and WM (Waste Management, $10,025.67). I invested in BSX, HSY, and T from the very first day of buying in late January. I invested in ten
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(OXY). I bought it on March 18th at $70.35 a share for 143 shares, for a total of $10,060.05. Today, it’s at $68.43 ($9,785.49 for 143 shares). I lost about $274.56 total for OXY. I chose it because, at the time, I needed an energy stock and OXY was reliable. I made a bad investment buying Occidental …show more content…
One of them is that there are always young Technology companies are always expanding and growing. Examples include Amazon and Apple. Another trend is investing in stocks, in which those companies peak at a certain time of year. An example is when I bought Hershey (HSY). I bought it late January, a few weeks before Valentine’s Day, hoping that the price would rise because chocolate is a common Valentine’s Day gift. Another trend is a lot of companies aren’t paying dividends to their stockholders. For example, Boston Scientific (BSX), currently does not pay dividends. A final trend is that Alternate Energy stocks are becoming increasingly popular. For example, Tesla Motors (TSLA) and Xcel Energy (XEL) stock prices have risen dramatically in the last
I decided to take on investment in the company, which at the time was stalling, in hopes of getting a return on investment. I sold my shares 02/07/2011 at a loss because the company did not seem to have things in order. I originally acquired 9 shares on 08/14/09 and 91 shares on 10/07/09. The average price per share (total cost divided by total shares) when I purchased the stocks was $0.45 and on the date of sell my shares they were worth $0.02 per share. The company was excellent at providing information to its investors as decisions were made during the years of operations; however there is limited information on the company since the bankruptcy .
They barely invested in anything (21). They also covered most of the lost from operations from financing a lot of their money. They took out a large bank loan and increase their debt. Stockholder also had to forgo their money to help keep the company from going down even further. In 1994 it was bad for stockholder but at least they got a dividend, unlike in 1995 when they had dues and no dividends. In 1995 it seems like they are planning something because they started investing over 16 times more than 1994 (from 21 to 330). This could mean they see opportunity coming in the near future. They lowered the lost from operation but still have high
... sell it a higher price (Google). It was alleged that his actions resulted in investor losses of approximately $200 Million (Kolhatkar, 2013).
For one of my selections for buying stock, I invested into Starbucks, this company has attracted me with their wonders of different coffees, and I knew many others were interested in the very popular coffee company. Starbucks all started in 1971 in Seattle, Washington. With three men, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel and Gordon Bowker, each of them put in one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars along with a barrowed five thousand from the bank to start up their small coffee shop in Pick Place Market, which is located in downtown Seattle. The name for this company was inspired by the character Starbuck from Moby Dick. This character was a coffee lover.
This assignment is concerned with your understanding of the key issues relative to portfolio analysis and investment. In completing this assignment you are to limit your scope to the US stock markets only. Use the Cybrary, the Internet, and course resources to write a 2-page essay which you will use with new clients of your financial planning business which addresses the following issues and/or practices:
Learned Material- I learned much not just about Economics and how, it can be used to overcome a scarce resource like and overall team budget like the Oakland Athletics. Also I learned that using the trade off policy , when losing something one can achieve something different in return like how because of all the stars Beane and the A’s lost he had to approach the game differently. In the process changing the game of baseball forever especially for the teams that do not have the buying power of the New York Yankees.
Finance is a field that had always fascinated me right from my undergraduate college days. What make me interested in this particular field of study are the art of finance and the complexity of investment market which would allow me to employ my personal skills, such as analytical and communication skills, along with my personal characteristics such as dedication and compassion for what I do. As one of the most important sector in the world, I believe it would provide me with a broad range of career options.
This career peaks my interest since in this role I will have the opportunity to construct my future and I will never stop learning. The constant innovation in finance is commonplace and it creates a work-day that is fast paced and so with this career, I see a promising future. This career interests me also because I will have the chance to practice what I have learned in school and the career places a premium on consistent results, rigorous analytical ideas or thoughts,
The next transaction I made was one that was very different from my other transactions. I based my transaction on a clearstation.com e-mail report that was sent to me recommending that I short NVDA. I went directly to the stockcharts.com and analyzed its chart. I decided to short the stock based on the information the chart provided (it was heavily overbought). I short-selled 100 shares of NVDA at $84.64.
My dream job would be to become an Investment Banker, however although the benefits of the job are spectacular so are the drawbacks. Investment Banking is different from Commercial Banking, which is what most people think of when they hear the word bank, commercial banks serve as managers for deposit accounts for businesses and individuals, whereas investment banks speed up the purchase and sales of bonds, stocks and other investments. Investment banking mainly involves “helping companies and governments issue securities, helping investors purchase securities, managing financial assets, trade securities and providing financial advice” (Careers-in-Investment-Banking, 2011). There are many roles an Investment Banker plays in a company, including
Lacy states, “This chart shows dramatic comebacks. In the wake of the dot com crash, limited partners privately told me that Accel Partners was one of two major firms that would never raise a fund again.”
income in the economy. Put simply, It = v (Yt – Yt-1) : where It is
By interviewing four of my friends about their knowledge about finances and what does finance mean to them and how to improve it. The people that I had interviewed student, workers, parents and store owner. I had asked my friend Nawal who is a science major at Brought of Manhattan community college and he said that:
Never have I ever climbed a mountain peak. As a child, I imagined myself conducting expeditions in deep-frozen pathways, leading amateur explorers to the top of the world, and instructing rookies in surviving harsh blizzards. Even though slightly altered, my childhood dream has been achieved. I led a team of fellow classmates, in my Strategic Management course, to the success summit of a financial competition. Over the course of a semester, I and my teammates were supposed to create and manage a company of the IT industry, in a computer-simulated environment, along with other four rival teams. I dealt with strategy and financial matters of our virtual enterprise, while my colleagues were working on marketing and manufacturing. During the four months of the exercise, I have experienced finance from various aspects: capital budgeting, through selecting favorable investment for upcoming quarters; debt management, by assessing the necessary amount and efficiency of loans; profitability analysis and dividend policy, which had been used to compile the company’s general performance index. Working in a multinational team, which included an American, a Norwegian and a Moldovan, strengthen my negotiations skills, as well as flexibility and cooperation. But above all, this experience intensified my passion for finance. Of course, a pleasant bonus was the fact that, in the end, our company’s financial performance was six times the performance of second-best team.