Over the last couple months the class has participated in the stock market game. With our partner, we chose a company that we wanted to invest our stocks into. We would then track our company over the months. If we saw a decline then we could sell stocks and try to invest in a different company in hope that we would have more money. If our company was doing well then we would continue to invest in that particular company. During this time we were competing with the other members in our class. The goal was to have the most money by the end of the stock market game. By strategically looking into multiple companies, my partner made the decision to invest into Budweiser in hopes that it would continue to show its consistency of increase and be a smart investment.
My partner and I decided to invest into the nation’s leading alcohol brand, Budweiser. Before we made the investment, we looked into the company’s past stocks to insure that we were making a smart decision. We first began by researching into company’s present and past stock chart starting with the previous week. We then proceeded to go to 1 month, then 6 months, and finally, the past year. One of the things that caught our attention was that even when the stock would show a decrease in its value, it didn’t take very long for the line to go up again, higher then what it was before. We liked the consistency that showed in the increase of the stock and saw a promising successful decision. We decided to take the risk of making that the first company that we decided to invest into.
The Budweiser Company offers many jobs to all kinds of people. First off, you have to hire people to work in the factories that make the bottles that hold the company’s product. The company also nee...
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...an investment into the Budweiser Company’s stocks is a very wise decision.
I do not doubt that my partner and I made a very smart decision by investing into the Budweiser Company. We were careful to choose a company that showed promising stocks. Even though there was a point where they were decreasing it didn’t take very long for them to increase back to the high numbers that they were at before. Because we made smart choices with our stocks, we placed second in the stock market game for our class. This has taught us about the importance of paying attention to the stocks that you are buying and knowing when to sell the stocks. This will especially benefit the students that would like to go into a business or economic major.
Works Cited
https://www.google.com/#q=budweiser+stocks http://stockmarketgame.org/ahold.html# http://www.indeed.com/cmp/Budweiser/reviews
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