Ticker Symbols

    Lets start learning about the Stock Market by learning what Ticker Symbols are.  Get a piece of paper out and write your name, date, and period on it.  The name of the assignment is Ticker Symbol.  After you label the paper begin answering all the questions.  Use the websites next to the questions to answer the questions.

Go to this website.  BNFK  Go to the seventh paragraph.  Look for the answer.

  1. What is a ticker symbol?

  2. What is McDonald's ticker symbol?

  3. What is Walt Disney's ticker symbol?

  4. Ticker Symbols are used for what?

Do everything it says in the next box.

Go to the website http://finance.yahoo.com/
Type the name of the company Home Depot.  As you are typing look for the name of the company in the list.  When you see the name of the company click it.  You will see a webpage that looks like this. 

Here is the ticker symbol. HD

The Last Trade amount is how much a share of the company costs.  Home Depot is $28.20.

 

Use the website http://finance.yahoo.com/ for the following answers.  When it says to write the company name, write the company name.

Here is an example of the first three answers.  Answer 7 is wrong. Get the right answer.

  1. Write the company name 3M.

  2. What is the ticker symbol for 3M?

  3. What was the last trade amount?

  4. Write the company name Alcoa.

  5. What is the ticker symbol for Alcoa?

  6. What was the last trade amount?

  7. Write the company name Altria Group.

  8. What is the ticker symbol for Altria Group?

  9. What was the last trade amount?

  10. Write the company name American Express.

  11. What is the ticker symbol for American Express?

  12. What was the last trade amount?

  13. Write the company name American International Group.

  14. What is the ticker symbol for American International Group?

  15. What was the last trade amount?

  16. Write the company name AT&T.

  17. What is the ticker symbol for AT&T?

  18. What was the last trade amount?

  19. Write the company name Boeing.

  20. What is the ticker symbol for Boeing?

  21. What was the last trade amount?

  22. Write the company name Caterpillar.

  23. What is the ticker symbol for Caterpillar?

  24. What was the last trade amount?

  25. Write the company name Citigroup.

  26. What is the ticker symbol for Citigroup?

  27. What was the last trade amount?

  28. Write the company name Coca-Cola.

  29. What is the ticker symbol for Coca-Cola?

  30. What was the last trade amount?

  31. Write the company name DuPont.

  32. What is the ticker symbol for DuPont?

  33. What was the last trade amount?

  34. Write the company name ExxonMobil.

  35. What is the ticker symbol for ExxonMobil?

  36. What was the last trade amount?

  37. Write the company name General Electric.

  38. What is the ticker symbol for General Electric?

  39. What was the last trade amount?

  40. Write the company name General Motors.

  41. What is the ticker symbol for General Motors?

  42. What was the last trade amount?

  43. Write the company name Hewlett-Packard.

  44. What is the ticker symbol for Hewlett-Packard?

  45. What was the last trade amount?

  46. Write the company name Home Depot.

  47. What is the ticker symbol for Home Depot?

  48. What was the last trade amount?

  49. Write the company name Honeywell.

  50. What is the ticker symbol for Honeywell?

  51. What was the last trade amount?

  52. Write the company name Intel.

  53. What is the ticker symbol for Intel?

  54. What was the last trade amount?

  55. Write the company name IBM.

  56. What is the ticker symbol for IBM?

  57. What was the last trade amount?

  58. Write the company name Johnson & Johnson.

  59. What is the ticker symbol for Johnson & Johnson?

  60. What was the last trade amount?

  61. Write the company name JPMorgan Chase.

  62. What is the ticker symbol for JPMorgan Chase?

  63. What was the last trade amount?

  64. Write the company name McDonald's.

  65. What is the ticker symbol for McDonald's?

  66. What was the last trade amount?

  67. Write the company name Merck.

  68. What is the ticker symbol for Merck?

  69. What was the last trade amount?

  70. Write the company name Microsoft.

  71. What is the ticker symbol for Microsoft?

  72. What was the last trade amount?

  73. Write the company name Pfizer.

  74. What is the ticker symbol for Pfizer?

  75. What was the last trade amount?

  76. Write the company name Procter & Gamble.

  77. What is the ticker symbol for Procter & Gamble?

  78. What was the last trade amount?

  79. Write the company name United Technologies Corporation.

  80. What is the ticker symbol for United Technologies Corporation?

  81. What was the last trade amount?

  82. Write the company name Verizon Communications.

  83. What is the ticker symbol for Verizon Communications?

  84. What was the last trade amount?

  85. Write the company name Wal-Mart.

  86. What is the ticker symbol for Wal-Mart?

  87. What was the last trade amount?

  88. Write the company name Walt Disney.

  89. What is the ticker symbol for Walt Disney?

  90. What was the last trade amount?

Congratulations you have just listed all the company's in the DJIA. (Dow Jone Industrial Average)  The DJIA is a list of 30 large companies on the New York Stock Exchange.

  1. What is DJIA an abbreviation for?

  2. What is the DJIA?

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