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Choose a stock that you like- it can be any company in any industry. Then visit Yahoo Finance at http://finance.yahoo.com/?u . Once there, enter the ticker symbol for your stock in the space provided so that you can be taken to pages where you will see a comprehensive set financial information- including the latest price- related to your company of choice. If you don't know your stock's symbol, click on "Symbol Lookup" to get the ticker symbol for your company. Once you see the financial pages, scroll down the page and observe the available information there.
1. What type of key financial information are available at the page you entered? Write 1 to 2 paragraphs describing what information can be obtained under each "hot link". In your write-up, make sure to click on the following "hot links" and describe what you saw:
Chart, Financials, Historical Prices, Industry, Insider, Profile, Reports, Research, and SEC Filings.
2. Aside from the key financial information, you will also see a set of accounting data. What is the significance of such data, if any at all, to the price of your stock? In answering this question, make sure you build upon what you learned in this unit about stock valuation.
3. Go back to the stock price, and based on your answer to the above question, attempt to see if you can justify the company's prevailing stock price reported on that page. What is your company's P/E ratio? What is the P/E ratio for its industry?
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What type of key financial information are available at the page you entered? Write 1 to 2 paragraphs describing what information can be obtained under each "hot link".
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Once you see the financial pages, scroll down the page and observe the available information there.
The company selected is General Motors Corporation. The ticker symbol is GM , the sector is consumer goods and the industry is Auto Manufacturers ( Major).
1. What type of key financial information are available at the page you entered? Write 1 to 2 paragraphs describing what information can be obtained under each "hot link". In your write-up, make sure to click on the following "hot links" and describe what you saw:
Chart, Financials, Historical Prices, Industry, Insider, Profile, Reports, Research, and SEC Filings.
The chart shows the price movement of the GM stock on the New York Stock Exchange and the market capitalization of the stock for a year. The table below the chart shows statistics about the price movement of the GM stock like the trade time, the previous closing price, the volume of trade, the EPS, the Dividend and the Yield. The financials shows the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow statement for the last three years. For example, the net income for GM showed an increase from 2002 to 2003 and a decline from 2003 to 2004. The net income applicable to Common Shares showed a similar trend. The net tangible assets in the balance sheets showed a sharp increase from 2002 to 2003 and then an slight increase in assets from 2003 to 2004. You can obtain information about the current assets and the liquidity of the company as well as an idea about the capital structure of the company. From, the cash flow hotlink you can get an idea about the operating activities of the company. This gives us an indication of how the company is using its cash ...
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