Stock Track Report
“The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.” (Mark Skousen). What is the stock market? Everybody was wondering about buying and selling stock as well as how can stock makes a profit, and why we should buy stock instead of investing in other business? Today, we are going to clarify all the concerns that people may have which are related to the stock market. First of all, we would like to start by defining what is stock market means in general, and we are
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The two main ways to make money in the stock market is from one specific technique that most investors practice whenever they are on the stock market. This is, they tend to buy their stocks at low price and sell them at a high price. As a result, they will definitely make huge profits from their investment. Buying low and selling high, it may sound so easy to do so. However, stock prices do not guarantee to increase every time because sometime stock prices are based on the supply and demand of the stocks in the stock market. This is, stock prices change every second, and stock prices change because of their supply and demand. For instance, when more people want to buy a stock than people want to sell their stocks, this is when the stock price increase. In contrast, if more people want to sell a stock than people want to buy stocks in the market, it is the time when stock prices start to decrease (Investopedia.com). Moreover, According to the article Investing Basics: What makes Stock Prices go Up and Down? It stated that in order for supply and demand in the stock market to change and change in stock prices, there are four things that make all the changes in the stock market, such as internal control, external control, market pressure, and hype (Moneyinstructor.com). Before, we move on to our actual stock portfolio, we want …show more content…
High technology corporations (Oracle, Verizon, Microsoft, NetSuite): the reasons that make us want to invest in those stocks above because when we looked up on their annual financial statements, they show us that their corporations are operated at gain and loss. Moreover, once when did some research about their research and development plans, we discovered that these four corporations above have put a lot of money on their R&D projects in order to generate high technologies products as well as services to the market. Moreover, we also do some research on the stock backgrounds and history, and why we should purchase those stocks. As a result, since those are solid evidences for us, our team decided to buy with those high technology corporations, such as Oracle, Verizon, Microsoft, and NetSuite.
2. Airline company- Delta Airline: while we did some research on the Delta Airline company, we have discovered that this particular airline has been the leader of the U.S. airline industry, and this airline was the first airline that had been extended itself after the Great Recession. According to Thestreet.com, it stated that within a period of less than two years, which started in the made 2012, Delta Airline stock had increased somewhat $9 to an all-time of about $47 currently. Therefor, we think that this stock is one of the secure stocks that we should invest
Before we invested, we decided to pick two types of companies to invest in. We would choose companies that had expensive stock but steady increasing prices and we would choose smaller companies that had cheaper stock but whom had a chance for potential huge price increases. If the smaller companies’ stock went down the bigger companies’ steadily increasing stock would even it out, but if the smaller companies’ stock price rose greatly, like we predict, we could sell and make a good profit. We found a big name company that had reliable stock prices pretty quick, but finding a small company whose stock price could rise was hard. We
Delta Air Lines operates in a competitive industry. Amongst its competitors, its two largest were American Airlines and United. To survive in the industry it was necessary to employ and maintain technologically efficient and cutting edge systems. However, Delta systems of operations were mainly paper based; they still used pneumatic tubes to move information and they made little use of the internet. As a result, the company lacked a competitive edge. The technology it had was based on various departments independently purchasing the technology they needed and hiring their own IT staff. In 1996, Delta was still known for its expensive airfares, poor service, limited leg room on flights and use of out-dated inefficient processing systems.
Many elements of Delta Airlines are described in detail, within this paper. There is a breakdown of the external and internal factors, using external and internal analysis. Porter’s Five forces are used to create the external analysis, and the key factors for Delta are power of buyers, and rivalry. Delta’s competitive advantages are identified as customer service, sustainability, brand image, strong strategic alliances, and corporate travel. Delta’s main issues are the low expansion in international markets, continuous changing of incentive program, and glitches within technology. Delta should expand more into the Chinese and African markets in order to gain market share within the airline industry.
The stock market is a centralized area where buyers and sellers comes together to perform stock transaction. When one thinks of the stock market, the first thing comes to mind is Wall Street which is sometimes referred to as the New York Stock Exchange as well as the NYSE.
After the 8 Days, we had this project for I ended up losing money, as I lost $3.30 in total, which is unfortunate as the first two days I managed to earn a fair amount of money considering the limited time period we were given. I feel that if we were given a longer period to record the stocks our results would have been more significant. Stock Investment Analysis: How These Companies Earn Revenue: Canadian Tire: Canadian Tire makes its revenue by acting as a retailer similar to Walmart and other superstores, by specializing in Home Improvement and Tools, Canada’s largest hardware, sports equipment, and home product retailer.
By 1928 stocks became the most common conversation topic everywhere. It did not take long for stock market trading to go wild. More than two million people began investing in the stock market. Yet only a few studied the finances and businesses of the companies that they invested in. Houses were mortgaged and life savings were invested in the stock market without knowing that the stock prices may drop (Mack). In the new investors’ experience, stock market had always gone up. However, weaknesses, such as overproduction of farms, overconfidence, bank failures, fraudulent companies, and low wages, soon proved the investors wrong. After stock price peaked on September 3, 1929, it began to sink and gradually picked up its falling speed. As the price dropped, more brokerages hiked margins, and “it was like yelling fire in a packed theater (Colombo).” Described as the nail in the coffin, Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, was the most devastating day. The index fell 43 points and 4 to 5 times of the normal shares traded hands. Throughout the remaining of the year, investors lost $100 billion in assets (Williamson). The gradually built Great Crash had severe consequences on global economy and society. The following paper is going to discuss the causes of the stock market crash of 1929. People’s overconfidence led to the United States’ stock market crash in 1929 by ignoring the warning
Delta Airlines has been a vibrant company in the airline industry, with great success over the years. Delta airlines started as a crops dusting company to serving more than 572 destinations, in 65 countries on six continents (Allan, H., David. H. ,2012). Delta airline moved its headquarters from Monroe, Louisiana to the city of Atlanta, Georgia. The great management strategies have portrayed from time to time to be fruitful even in the verge of a recession. With these consistency in delivery of services, it is clear that the company is out to outdo its competitors and turn out to be the greatest airline in the world.
By doing research of companies it helped our stock maintain a balance percentage and a balance of investments. On occasion, if
You would not buy a home, car or other large purchases without researching what product offered you the most for your money. The same is true when investing in a company. Investors do avid research on multiple companies to find what company matches the investors' criteria. In this paper Team C will research both AT&T and Verizon's financial documents. Team C will compare selected ratios, cash flow and make recommendations how both companies can manage cash flow for the future.
In turn everything in the present and the future is judged through the stocks as they hold a high importance in industrialized economies showing the healthiness of said countries economy. As investing discourages consumer spending over all decreases, it lead...
When analyzing Delta, you do not have to search very far before quite possibly one its strongest attribute rears its head. Based on calendar 2000 data, Delta is the largest U.S. airline in terms of aircraft departures and passengers enplaned, and third largest as measured by operating revenues and revenue passenger miles flown. Delta is the leading U.S. airline in the transatlantic, offering the most daily flight departures, serving the largest number of nonstop markets and carrying more passengers than any other U.S. airline. Delta Air Lines transports more passengers worldwide than any other airline.
In order to make the most logical and beneficial purchases, it was first important that I fully understood the terminology used within the stock market. Words such as blue chip stock, mutual fund, stock splits, and ticker symbol would all prove incredibly important for me to understand if I was to do well within the game. For example, the first stock I bought, Disney, taught me the definition of a ticker symbol - in Disney’s case, DIS. This enabled me to quickly identify other stocks by their ticker symbols as well, and I soon became familiar with the term. In addition, when I bought Coca-Cola, I soon learned its financial importance as a reliable blue-chip stock, as it and other stocks like it proved profitable for me. My class was also required to buy a mutual fund, and in doing so I learned how exactly a mutual fund differs from a stock, the positives and negatives of buying one, et cetera. In addition, my knowledge of the history that places like the NYSE contains proved incredibly important towards my success within the game. Because I learned about the NYSE’s foundation and the many people who worked to make it what it is today, I was able to fully appreciate the importance of the stock market as I moved through the simulation. This, in turn, helped me take the Stock Market Game seriously and not waste any of my money on stocks that I considered
I became an enthusiast of finance ever since I was at high school. At the political economy class, my teacher asked us: if you have a million RMB, how would you use it? She then introduced us the concept of investment, and I was intrigued specifically by the stock. For the latter two years of my high school, I have been reading books and articles regarding the stock market in the U.S. and in China. As one of the outstanding students ranked top 1% in College Entrance Exam in Hainan Province, China, I was accepted by the City University of Hong Kong with a full scholarship. With the strong interest in finance, I chose quantitative finance and risk management as my major.
The stock market is an essential part of a free-market economy, such as America’s. This is because it provides companies the capital they need in exchange for giving away small parts of ownership in their company to investors. The stock market works by letting different companies sell stocks to gain capital, meaning they sell shares of their company through an exchange system in order to make more money. Stocks represent a small amount of ownership in a company. The more stocks a person owns, the more ownership they have of that company. Stocks also represent shares in a company, which are equal parts in which the company’s capital is divided, entitling a shareholder to a portion of the company’s profits. Lastly, all of the buying and selling of stocks happens at an exchange. An exchange is a system or market in which stocks can be bought and sold within or between countries. All of these aspects together create the stock market.
What is the stock market? Businesses share part of the company by selling stock, or shares of ownership. When investors own shares of a company, that company is considered public because the general public has an ownership stake in that company. At the high ranks of the companies are the board of directors, whose job it is to make sure the business’s managers are working in the best interests of the multiple owners and shareholders. Companies sell shares so they can expand their businesses and make them better, such as by building manufacturing plants, buying other companies, and developing new and improved products to keep their business profitable. America’s railroads, steel manufacturers, car companies, and telephone companies all started with the help of money from opening up their business to the Stock Market. The Stock Market started in the 1920’s. People who were smart enough to buy them back then could build up a fortune since the market was growing so rapidly. One wh...