Financial Literacy – Stock Research
Assignment/Project
Go to Yahoo and Finance to research the stock of a company that you choose.
http://finance.yahoo.com/marketupdate?u
Find the following information about your stock:
Ticker symbol
The 52-week high and low prices (state as a range)
Price as of 10/29/10
Print a 5-year history graph (in color)
Print a 5-year history graph comparing your stock to DJIA (in color)
Write a summary comparing these two graphs
Find history and other information about the company (see “Profile”)
If the stock has had major fluctuations over the past five years, see if you can find out the
reason for the fluctuation
Other resources from the web you may check:
o http://www.morningstar.com/#A1
o http://www.marketwatch.com/
o http://www.bloomberg.com/
Create a poster or a PowerPoint presentation to display your findings to the class on Tuesday
November 3, 2010. This grade will be counted toward assessments (55% of term grade).
DJIA Project Rubric
Available Actual Points
Points Earned
Project rec’d 11/03/10 5
Content Project contained:
Ticker Symbol 5
52-week high and low price range 5
Price as of 10/29/10 5
5-year history graph 5
5-year comparison graph to DJIA 5
Comparison Summary 5
Company Profile/Additional Information 5
Display/Presentation of Research:
Neatly printed or typed 5
Used color graphs (computer or hand-drawn) 5
Presentation 10
Total Points (out of 60 available points) 60
0 Points 1-3 points 4-7 points 8-10 points
No visual provided; Visual needs Visual was somewhat Visual was appealing,
lacked effort. improvement; appealing; student neat, and organized;
minimal eye contact; made some eye student captured
student had difficulty contact; student was audience’s attention;
presenting material. familiar with content. student made solid
eye contact and was
at ease presenting the
material.