part 1 is week 1
part 2 is week 2
part 3 is week 5
attached are all the completed parts you will have to do part 4
This is the fourth part of your course project. For this assignment, you will need to refer back to the five stocks that you selected in Week 02. This includes your two stocks that you are using for your course project.
How are the stocks in your watch list doing? Speculate on reasons for its performance. Justify your comments with research about the companies and the stock market.
also you need to reply and make a 1 paragraph comments to the choices that these 3 below students made
Here is student number 1
The 5 companies that I have been watching on the stock market are:
JP Morgan Chase & Co(JPM) current stock price is at $51.35, it was previously closed at $50.23 an increase of 1.12. JPM is trading slightly below book value.
Chevron Corporation(CVX) current stock price is $123.52, it was previously closed at $124.00 a decrease of .48. I think it is due to the rising gas/oil prices.
Microsoft(MSFT) current stock price is $33.68, it was previously closed at $33.53 an increase of .15.
McDonald’s Corp(MCD) current stock price is $101.99, it was previously closed at $101.20 an increase of .79.
Burger King Worldwide, INC current stock price is $19.04, it was previously closed at $19.07 a decrease of .03.
I speculate that reasons for how the company is performing is due to the economy. If the economy is doing good more than likely the stock market will show the same results and vice versa.
here is student number 2
Hello class! My stock watch is for the five stocks are as followed, In 2012 McDonalds was working with a cash flow of $ 7 billion and they only needed $3.2billion to use for investing activities.They free cash left over of $8 billion to either invest or keep. Their current market cap for 2013 May 15, is $102.21 billion. This is because they average a $1000 dollars a minute in sales.
Kroger for the last three months market rate 6.67 opening and closing at 6.74 with an increase. There current market cap is $610.11million.
PPL has proven itself to be very reliable when they meet their expected growth rate. This company is one of the largest owned companys’ who services energy and utilities in the western and northern U.S including the UK. this is due to their performance in serving customers. They strive for excellence. Their strategy to produce shows in their market cap which as of May 15,2013 is $18.96 billion. They expect more earnings in 2013 beause of a rate increase which will be $0.03 pe share.
SCG earnings for the first three quaters of 2013 bring them $151.million at $1.13 compare to that of $121 million at 93 cents for the first quater in 2012 show an increase because of the many areas they offer services to. There market cap 2013,$7.06 billion
Ford Motor Company the largest auto manufacturer closed at 14.67 their market cap is at a high $57.63billion because of increase of sales to build a small SUV in Russia.
Ford Motor Company
here is student number 3
For my course project I chose Apple Inc., Google Inc., Samsung Electronics Ltd., Amazon.com Inc., and Barnes and Noble Inc.
Apple has seen quite a roller coaster this last month. With news of the company cutting back on orders for hardware, the stocks started to decrease just to see an upward trend on news of the company doing a repurchasing of $100 billion in stocks over the next three years (Rooney, 2013). This week Apple stock has once again dropped off amid the sell off of large quantities of stock from two hedge funds (Shell, 2013).
Google stock has made a large rally since April 15, from around $780 to $915 on May 15. Google has introduced a 1 gigabyte internet service along with its new developer project, Google Glass. These are just two of the factors that are helping Google’s stock prices. The price really went up after Google’s I/O day, an event where the company talks about future products and services (Farber, 2013).
Samsung, also with ups and downs has remained fairly unchanged even with the release of their new Galaxy S4. The thought is that the GS4 is relatively the same as the GS3 (Pierce, 2013). It seems to be that the phone, since similar to the predecessor, is not selling in the volumes needed to spike the stock price.
Amazon.com has remained relatively unchanged over the last four weeks but has seen ups and downs as information is released about investments.
Barnes and Noble has increased 22% in the past month, this could be in part to Microsoft’s interest in purchasing the ebook Nook for $1 billion (“Microsoft Offers Barnes,” 2013).
