1. Reading Stock Standard 3.2 Apply the concepts of buying and selling stock

2. Objectives:  TSW define the basic terminology for buying and selling stock by using them in written form.  TSW display their understanding of buying and selling stock through the simulation game How the Market Works buy spending at least three fourths of their $100,000 portfolio.

3. Reading Stock Quotes YTD is the Year to Date percent change of the stock price from January 1 st of the current year. Example: If the stock was $43.00 on January 1 st and $36.00 on July 30 th, the percent change would be -16.3%

4. 52 Week High Low 52-Week High & Low shows the highest and lowest prices the stock was sold per share during the last 52 weeks

5. Stock Ticker Every stock’s company is abbreviated with a Ticker symbol this is provided.

6. Dividends Per Share  Dividends per share is the total cash paid to common stockholders per share annually  Helpful when determining the type of stock  If a company paid $10,000 in dividends for 30,000 shares, the dividends per share would be $0.33

7. Price/Earnings Ratio  Price/earnings ratio is the closing price of the share compared to the annual earnings per share  If the stock’s market price is $50.00 and the earnings per share is $2.25, the P/E ratio is 22.2  For every dollar the company earns, the stock’s market price is worth $22.00  A high number indicates people are optimistic about the company and health of the market. YTD % 52-Week High Low StockDivYLD % P/EVol 100s HighLowCloseNet Chg -16.34336AAR.332.5221479403742.027

8. Volume  Vol 100’s is the number of transactions to the share on the reported day  Represented in hundreds (take the number and add two zeros)

9. High and Low  High and low entries represent the high and low selling price of one share for the previous day

10. Close  The last share sold for the day’s price

11. Net Change  The difference between the closing price/share from the prior day and the current day

12. Source  © Family Economics & Financial Education – Revised November 2004 – Investing Unit – Language of the Stock Market  Funded by a grant from Take Charge America, Inc. to the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Arizona