NAME _______________________

Stock Market Internet Scavenger Hunt

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stock.asp
1. What is a stock?
A stock is a security that represents the ownership of a fraction of the issuing corporation. They
are also known as equity.
2. Name one way an investor makes money by owning stock?
Owning stocks gives you the right to receive dividends when they are distributed and the right to
sell your shares to somebody else.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/082614/how-stock-market-works.asp
3. What is a stock market?
The stock market provides a venue where companies raise capital by selling shares of stock to
investors.
http://www.world-stock-exchanges.net/
4. Name 3 foreign stock markets and the country and continent where they are located.
Athens Exchange, Greece, Europe
Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society, China, Asia
Swiss Exchange, Switzerland, Europe

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/security-market-usa.asp
5. Name 2 stock markets in the US?
New York Stock Exchange and National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation
System
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/invest-in-nasdaq-nyse.asp
6. When was the NYSE founded?
1792
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/discountbroker.asp
7. What is the difference between a full service broker house and a discount broker house?
A discount broker is a stockbroker who carries out buy and sell orders at reduced commission
rates compared to a full-service broker. However, a discount broker does not provide
investment advice or perform analysis on a client's behalf, unlike a full-service broker.
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8. What is the Dow Industrial Average?
A stock market index that tracks 30 large, publicly-owned blue-chip companies trading on the
New York Exchange and NASDAQ.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sp500.asp
9. What is the S&P?
A market-capitalization-weighted index of 500 leading publicly traded companies in the U.S.

10. What do these averages “tell” the investor?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price-earningsratio.asp
11. What is a PE ratio?

12, How does the PE ratio help the investor evaluate a company and what should the
investor compare it to?

https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=aapl
13. What is the previous closing price of Apple Computer (AAPL)?_________

14. What is the P/E ratio?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/buying-on-margin.asp
15. What does it mean to buy a stock on margin?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stock-market-crash-1929.asp
16. What happened on October 24, 1929 and why did this practice cause a problem in
1929?