Question

Answer the following questions about the stock you choose to pretend to track:

What is the name of the company and the stock symbol you chose?

What is the P/E ratio?

What information did you find about the company?

Why did you choose this stock?

Over the next week, look up and record the price of stock each day. Record the stock name and its daily price per share in a word processing document or a spreadsheet.


After tracking your stock for one week, answer the following: Did you gain or lose money? How much?

Answer 1

The project involves selecting a stock, tracking its daily price, and understanding P/E ratio and market performance measures like the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 to evaluate portfolio changes over a week.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the context of a student's project on tracking and understanding stock market performance, one starts by selecting a company and its stock symbol. It's important to know the Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key metric that measures a company's current share price relative to its per-share earnings. When diligently monitoring a stock portfolio, which includes processing daily prices and remaining up-to-date with current events affecting the companies, one can make informed decisions. This contrasts with a random approach that ignores financial news and market performance measures like the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the Standard & Poor's 500, which may result in a poorly performing portfolio. After a week of tracking, you would determine if you have made a gain or loss by comparing your initial investment amount with the current value of the stocks.

Answer 2

Walt Disney NYSE: DIS

At the end of 2021, the company had a P/E ratio of 91.1.

I chose this stock because it is a very strong brand that everyone should know.

I'm not sure how to answer this question. I didn't know this assignment was coming up so there is no way that I can record the stock price of each day for a week.

Walt Disney is forecasted to grow earnings and revenue by 27.1% and 5.5% per annum respectively. EPS and ROE are also expected to grow by 26.9% and 10.9% per year respectively. Analyst coverage for Walt Disney stock is good.

Step-by-step explanation:

I wrote this for my Odyssey assignment.