Part 1: Answer these questions about the company you selected.

What is the name and ticker symbol for your company?

Describe the company and its major business activities.

Why did you select this company to research?

Do you think the stock's price will increase or decrease over the coming 8 weeks? Why?

Part 2: Stock Price and Key Statistics

Using Yahoo! Finance, look up the price of your selected company's common stock at the beginning of week 1. You need to use the first trading day the stock market was open that week. Identify and use the closing stock price for the day to answer the following questions.

You can follow the link on the left that says Historic prices. You can also do a Google search to find company and stock information.

Stock Price

What is the price per share of your stock at the beginning of week 1 (First trading day of the first week)?

How much would it cost to buy 100 shares of the company's stock on that day?