History Unit 8: For Self Test 3

Names for stock

Equities, securities, issues, shares

Volatility gives you an idea of the risk and ? potential of that particular stock

profit

The 52 weeks high and low will tell you about the ? of a stock....if the numbers show little difference between each other, there is less risk of loss--but there is also less opportunity for gain

volatility

Give the two examples provided that represent a blue chip stock:

AT&T, Boeing

? are the safest stock investment you can make, since these corporations are so large and powerful they can withstand a downturn in the economy

Blue chip stock

By looking at the net change, you can see the change of the price of the stock during the ?. You can learn whether the price has been rising or dropping

Day

A share of profits received by a shareholder is called a

Dividend

A price-earnings ratio is figured out by calculating the relationship between the price of the company's stock and the ? a company makes in the entire ?. It is figured out by dividing the closing price of a stock by the earnings per share of each stock

Earnings, year

If you see a wide margin between the high and low numbers, you can tell that there will be a smaller risk than with other stocks which have a large difference between their numbers in that column

False

The S&P List contains the 500 smallest publicly held companies.

False

NYSE symbols are usually one, two, or three

Letters

The AMEX stock symbols usually have ? letters

Three

A preferred stock has a financial return that has a set limit

True

First, all the common stock in the company must be issued. Then the company will begin to issue preferred stock

True

Look closely at the volume number--if a tiny z is shown before the number, the volume is not given in hundreds but is the actual number of stocks traded

True

Standard and Poor's 500 is a type of stock index favored by professionals because it includes a wider range of public companies than the Dow Jone industrial average does

True

When you see the columnfigure, you are looking at the amount of stocks that were traded on that day

True

Your portfolio is all of the various stocks or bonds you, as an investor, hold

True

There is more of a risk with ? stock and the gains and losses of a company directly affect the ? stock. You get a high chance of making a profit with ? stock

common

The volume number is given in the ? so if you want to get the actual number of stocks traded, simply multiply the volume number by ?

hundreds, 100

Common stock is a type of stock that simply shows that you own part of the company; it is the basic stock a company will ?

issue