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7.03 Task: Investments

Read each question carefully and choose the best answer.

1. Which of the following investments have a higher risk?      

A) Speculative Stock

B) Real Estate

C) High-Grade Preferred Stock

D) Certificates of Deposit

2. Which of the following investments have a lower risk?      

A) Speculative Stock

B) Real Estate

C) High-Grade Preferred Stock

D) Certificates of Deposit

3. Which of the following investments have a higher risk?      

A) Collectibles

B) Balanced Mutual Funds

C) Money Market Accounts

D) Treasury Issues

4. Which of the following investments have a lower risk?      

A) Penny Stocks

B) Growth Mutual Funds

C) Money Market Accounts

D) Treasury Issues

5. Are insured savings/checking accounts a low risk or a high risk investment?      

A) Low

B) High

Review each stock-table carefully. Use the stock table to answer the questions that follow.

6. Use the stock table below to answer the following questions:

Name

Of

Company |Symbol

Of

Company |52

WEEK

HIGH |52

WEEK

LOW |

Div |

Vol |

Yld |

PE |

Day

Last |

Net

Chg | |

Big Lots |

MMM |

112.38 |

81.98 |

2.54 |

2,591,102 |

2.28 |

17.36 |

111.42 |

[pic] | |Source: Wall Street Journal – 5/30/2013

a) What were the high and low prices for the past 52 weeks for Big Lots?

High – $       Low – $      

b) If you owned 2000 shares of Big Lots stock last year, what dividend did you

receive? $      

c) How many shares of Big Lots were traded yesterday?      

d) What was the price at which Big Lots shares traded when the stock exchange

closed yesterday? $      

e) What does the value in the Net Chg column represent? The price per

share       (increased or decreased) $      .

f) What is the company’s annual earnings per share. $      

7. Use the stock table below to answer the following questions:

Name

Of

Company |Symbol

Of

Company |52

WEEK

HIGH |52

WEEK

LOW |

Div |

Vol |

Yld |

PE |

Day

Last |

Net

Chg | |

Big Lots |

BIG |

42.26 |

26.69 |

|

7,141,392 |

|

11.60 |

34.93 |

[pic] | |Source: Wall Street Journal – 5/30/2013

a) What were the high and low prices for the past 52 weeks for Big Lots?

High – $       Low – $      

b) If you owned 2000 shares of Big Lots stock last year, what dividend did you

receive? $      

c) How many shares of Big Lots were traded yesterday?      

d) What was the price at which Big Lots shares traded when the stock exchange

closed yesterday? $      

e) What does the value in the Net Chg column represent? The price per

share       $      

f) What is the company’s annual earnings per share. $      

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