PDF Identifying Ticker Symbols and Interpreting Stock Quotes

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Ticker Symbol: An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular publicly traded company.

NYSE: Up to 3 letters Nasdaq: Up to 4 letters

To find information about a company's stock, you can just Google, "Apple stock", and the info will be the first thing to pop up!

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Price of the stock: As the trades happen throughout the day, the price will fluctuate.

Open ? price at the beginning of the day. High ? highest price that day. Low ? lowest price that day.

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Daily change in the value of the stock compared to Open Price:

Shown as a dollar amount and as a %. Green means __________________________________ Red means _____________________________________

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Market Cap. = total value of all shares on the market.

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Volume = is the number of shares traded during a specific amount of time.

This is NOT the total number of shares open for public trading, just those being bought/sold.

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