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Investing in Stocks Personal Finance Holmen High School
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Objectives Understand the stock market's function for both owners and investors Understand what drives prices up and down Recognize and apply the concepts of ◦ Earnings Per Share (EPS) ◦ Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E) ◦ Factoring growth in the valuation of a company
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Meet Velma Velma owns a small cupcake shop Velma makes a profit of $5,000 a year Business is growing, but she needs cash to expand
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Velma’s Options Loan from a Bank Issue Bonds ◦ Borrow from Investors Find Private Investors Find Public Investors
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Velma and Daphne Velma needs to borrow money Daphne has money to lend
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Velma and Daphne Velma Gets a Loan from a Bank Pays 7% Business Loan Daphne Puts Her Money in Checking Account or CD Earns 1%-3% in Interest 7%2%
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Velma and Daphne Velma Issue Bonds Pays 6% to Investors Daphne Invests in a Bond Receives 6% Interest
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Velma and Daphne Velma seeks private investors Family Friends Business People Daphne wants to buy 50% of the company Velma’s Company makes $5,000 a year Daphne wants half the profit ($2,500)
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How Much Should Daphne Pay? If Daphne wants 50% of the business, how much should she pay Velma? What is Velma’s business worth?
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Shark Tank
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Issuing Stock- Going Public Allows public to invest in Velma’s company Issue shares to investors Profits are shared among investors
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Public vs Private PrivatePublic Does not need to disclose ◦ Revenue ◦ Profits ◦ Expenses ◦ Salary Kwik Trip Menards Festival Need to disclose ◦ Revenue ◦ Profits ◦ Expenses ◦ Salary BP Home Depot Publix
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What is the Stock Market? Just like a farmer’s market Buy and sell shares of stock in public companies Companies recognized by Ticker Symbols ◦ SBUXWMT ◦ MCDMSFT
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Benefits of the Stock Market Owners Raise Money Investors become Owners Allows businesses to grow and expand
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Why Go Public Velma’s business has grown to 10 stores Wishes to expand to 200 stores Needs to raise money to expand
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Velma’s Cupcakes Value determined by Wall Street Issues 500,000 shares at $5/share Raises $2.5 million to expand her business Ticker Symbol: VCUP
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What causes the price to change? After six months: Demand for Cupcakes is High Sales are Growing Profits are Rising VCUP Price: $8.00
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What causes the Price to Change? After 12 Months: Demand for Cupcakes is Low Economy is Bad Sales are Slowing Profits are Falling VCUP Price $3.00
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What causes the Price to Change? Supply and Demand High Demand-Low Supply- Price Rises Low Demand-High Supply- Price Falls
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Total Profit Quarter1$200,000 Quarter 2$350,000 Quarter 3$150,000 Quarter 4$300,000 Total Profit $1,000,000 Number of Shares 500,000
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Earnings Per Share QuarterProfitSharesEPS Quarter 1$200,000500,000$.40 Quarter 2$350,000500,000$.70 Quarter 3$150,000500,000$.30 Quarter 4$300,000500,000$.60 Year 1$1,000,000500,000$2.00
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What’s a Fair Price? Is $8.00 Expensive for VCUP Is $3.00 Cheap for VCUP We don’t know until we look at the P/E Ratio
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Price to Earnings Ratio Price- Current Share Price Earnings- Earnings Per Share VCUP Price- $8.00 ESP- $2.00 P/E4
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Price to Earnings Ratio Not represented in dollars Lower the better High numbers mean a stock could be expensive Look at Competitors
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Price to Earnings Pepsi P/E20 Coke P/E15 Coke is a better value because the P/E ratio is lower
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Ways to Profit from Stock Capital Gain Buy 1,000 Shares of MSFT @ $20 Sell 1,000 Shares of MSFT @ $35 Profit- 1,000 x $15= $15,000 Dividends Own 200 Shares of Nike. Nike pays a dividend of $3/share. Profit- 200 x $3= $600
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Question 1 Jerry's Juice Company has 500,000 shares outstanding Listed below are the quarterly EPS for the company. Q1 $.60 Q2 $.40 Q3 $.75 Q4 $.25 What are the total earnings for the past year? A.$125,000 B.$1,000,000 C.$2.00 D.$250,000
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Question 2 All other things being equal, it is best to look for a company with a low P/E. True False
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Question 3 Name one thing that could cause stock prices to fall.
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Question 4 Calculate the EPS from the following information: Total Profit: $3,000,000 Total # of Shares: 1,000,000
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Question 5 What is one difference between a privately and publically owned company?
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