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Choose a stock that you like. 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 is available at the page you entered? 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 about stock valuation. Go back to the stock price, and based on your answer above, 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 and what is the P/E ratio for its industry?

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Summary: This is the home page with all the summarize information such as key ratios, latest news, daily trade details such as last closing, previous day volume etc.

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The stock chosen for this assignment is Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG)

Last closing price: $409.36

Hot links:

Summary: This is the home page with all the summarize information such as key ratios, latest news, daily trade details such as last closing, previous day volume etc.

Chart: This page depicts the short term as well as long term charts of the company. If we click on technical analysis, there is complete information available to technical traders on analysts on various indicators related to charts such as RSI, bollinger bands, parabolic SAR etc. The page also displays average volumes, market cap etc. These information are extremely helpful for technical analysts.

Historical prices: This page depicts the previous closing prices as well as open, lows and highs data of the company on daily, weekly, monthly basis along with dividend dates. These data are useful for carrying out regression analysis etc. for the ...

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