Lil+Lili

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Lili A.
=__Initial Research:__=

=Good Consumer: =
 * Think about the brands and goods that are "must-haves" for you, your friends, and your family.
 * Where do you tend to shop or dine out?
 * What are some companies that strike you as being particularly impressive?
 * Look at the stuff you, your friends, and your family own - it might not be unreasonable to invest in some of these companies!

//If my family and I are spending money on these products, then more people are too. The typical things that people own usually do not go out of style quickly and don't disappear from the market. Most people in the U.S buy "Must-haves" no matter if they can afford them or if they'll be able to afford life after their purchase. Because food is never out of style, eating out is always popular and has a guaranteed chance to do well in the market and be a good investment. As an average, everyday consumer, average, everyday items must be fairly stable on the market.//
 * Initial Philosophy:**

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 * Initial Research:**


 * **Company Name** || **Stock Symbol (make it a hyperlink to research page)** || **Price per share when researched.** || **Briefly, why are you attracted to this stock?** || **Roughly, How many thousands of dollars to Invest? (Enter number)** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Kraft Foods Inc. || KFT || 30.73 || It's low, with unstable price going higher. || 5,000 ||
 * General Mills || GIS || 65.82 || The past year has had good results. || 26,000 ||
 * Chevron Corporation || CVX || 59.98 || Demand for Gas will be around for a while. || 20,000 ||
 * Costco wholesale group || COST || 53.61 || Higher prices= cheaper groceries || 10,000 ||
 * JP Morgan CHase || JPM || 41.25 || Future Looks promising. It status line is rising. || 20000 ||
 * When researching your stocks, look at the following: 5-year performance, stock performance against comparable companies, Dividend Information.
 * Identify which stocks you'd like to invest in. (You don't have to use all the stocks you researched!) For each stock, please give a 2-3 sentence justification, based on some sort of performance evidence, your own thoughts, or other information that could make this a good company.
 * Identify which stocks you'd like to invest in. (You don't have to use all the stocks you researched!) For each stock, please give a 2-3 sentence justification, based on some sort of performance evidence, your own thoughts, or other information that could make this a good company.

=__Once Stocks Are Purchased:__=

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3. For each of the companies that you choose to invest in, please give me the following://
 * 1) Name of Company
 * 2) Stock Symbol
 * 3) Exchange where Stock Trades
 * 4) Brief summary of what the company does
 * 5) Location of Corporate Headquarters
 * 6) Add hyperlinks as appropriate to a news article that has some impact/implication on your company's stock performance.

Apple Inc. AAPL NASDAQ Apple designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products. They are best known for their Macintosh computers, iPod media players, and iPhones. In their fiscal year of 2007 they had an annual sale of US $24 billion. //Fortune// magazine has named them the most admired company in the United States. Cupertino, CA 92014 [|3D Apple?]

Costco Wholesale Corporation COST NASDAQ Costco is the fourth biggest general retailer in the U.S. In the fiscal year of 2007 the company's store sales totaled $64.4 billion with $1.1 billion as net profit.The American Customer Satisfaction Index made them number one in retailing with a score of 81 in 2006. Issaquah, WA

4. Revisit your investment strategy and portfolio - once Mid-October, and once Mid-November. Report the following:
 * 1) How are the stocks doing?
 * 2) Any particular good or bad ones?
 * 3) How are bigger economic / current events issues impacting your stock?
 * 4) (Feel free to buy or sell stocks as needed!)

=__**End of Project:**__=
 * 1) Complete your spreadsheet. Calculate the "Final Overall Gain/Loss"
 * 2) Make a pie chart of your holdings, based on $ invested in each stock.
 * 3) Re-evaluate your initial investment philosophy. Now that the game is completed, how did it work for you? What would you have tried to do differently? How did stocks that you initially research, but did not purchase, fare? (Solid 1-paragraph assessing your strategy, 1 paragraph describing what you would try differently.)
 * 4) Please print/link and thoroughly discuss current events article for two of your companies.
 * 5) Project Reflection: What did you learn? What did you have troubles with? Anything that I can do as a teacher to make this project more helpful for you? (1 paragraph)