In the long run, the U.S. stock market reflects the U.S. economy. The purpose of this exercise is to introduce you to the stock market. Each student needs to pick a publicly traded company. Everyone is given $100,000 of capital to invest. The investing period is from8/30/2021 to 10/15/2021. I'll maintain an Excel spreadsheet and update the value of your stock investments weekly. At the end of the course, the student with the highest return will get 15 extra credit points towards active class participation grade (discussion assignments). Everyone else gets 10 extra credit points.

Use this website

https://fortune.com/fortune500/2019/search/

to answer the following questions:

1) What is the name of the company?

2) Why do you pick this company?

3) What is the stock/sticker symbol? For example, Apple is AAPL.

4) What is the website of the company?

5) What sector does the company belong to?

6) What industry does the company belong to?

7) What is the annual revenue of the company? Hint: add 6 zeros to the revenue number (example - Walmart:$514,405,000,000).

8) What is the annual profit of the company? Hint: add 6 zeros to the profit number (example - Walmart:$6,670,000,000).

9) How many employees does the company employ?

10) Click on the company you choose and briefly describe what the company does, sells, or provides services?