Use Picking a Stock
(Tracking) http://library.thinkquest.org/3088/stockmarket/tracking.html
to learn about
reading the stock marketpage.
Here is an example of a stock market listing and how to read it.
52-week
high
low Company Dividend
Sales Close Change
54 3/8 21
3/8 C&D Tch .11
187 u59 1/2 +5 1/4
| High– the highest price the stock
sold for during the past year.
Low – the lowest price the stock sold for during the past year. Company – abbreviation for the name of the company. Dividend – the amount of cash payment (if any) per share per year. Sales – the number of hundreds of shares sold. Close – the last price per share the stock sold for on that day. Change -- the change in price per share from the previous day. "u" in front of price means a new high for the year. "d" means a new low for the year. |
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** To find the price per share on the previous day, undo the change by doing the opposite.
For example:
Close 35 1/4 Change - 1 1/2
35 1/4
Add 1 1/2 (1 2/4) to 25
3/4 to replace the amount it went down. + 1 2/4
36 3/4
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Use your newspaper to find the following information. Date of your newspaper ____________
1. Delta Air -- closing price ____________________
2. Barnes and Noble – change from previous day _____________
3. Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) -- number of shares traded (remember the 00s) _______________
4. Best Buy – High for the year ___________ Low for the year ____________
5. Colgate Palmolive – price per share on the previous day _________________
6. Coca Cola – price per share on the previous day __________________
7. Federal Express – cost to buy 100 shares. __________________
8 Berkshire Hathaway – cost to buy 20 shares. _________________
9. Name two stocks that hit a new high or new low for the year
Underlining shows _____________________________________________Bold type shows ______________________________________________