START TOTAL: 100,000; END TOTAL: 106, Stock Market Simulation By
Starting Stock Purchases CompanySymbolQuantityCost at Buying Total Cost w/ Tran. Fee Wal-martWMT300$54.56$16,353 DisneyDIS400$22.46$8,969 Best BuyBBY300$24.31$7,278 KraftKFT200$26.74$5,333 MastercardMA400$136.99$54,781 Money Left: $7,286
Reasons Why Wal-mart: Christmas shopping Disney: vacation time near Best Buy: Christmas shopping, more electronics Kraft: cheap food, need ‘cuz economy bad (more of a longer term stock) Mastercard: Christmas shopping, put most amount of money in, just had a drop
Selling Best Buy: sold all 300 at $26.87, gain of $2.56 a share, total gain of $768, or 11% Mastercard: sold 200 at $143.62, gain of $6.63 a share, total gain of $1326, or 5% Mastercard, again: sold 200 at $148.81, gain of $11.82 a share, total gain of $2364, or 9%
Reasons Why Best Buy: had just gone up, started to drop Mastercard (first time): just started to go up, needed the money, left more Mastercar (second time): climbed very, very steeply; started to drop
Buying Again Wal-mart, Disney, and Kraft left Bought 300 McDonald’s at $61.29 a share, total cost $18387 Bought 300 Nike at $52.69 a share, total cost $15807 Bought 300 UPS at $52.78 a share, total cost $15834
Reasons Why McDonald’s had just had a drop, cheap food Nike sells basketball shoes and it’s basketball season, an international company = more customers UPS is a large postal service, and there are many mailings around Christmas
Final Companies Wal-mart Disney Kraft McDonald’s Nike UPS
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