Help with this stock market report?
For a report in my economics class I have to track the stocks from the begining of september 13th till today and I have to show how much money I made if I invested 10,000 dollars in each one.
Go to a website like google finance (www.google.com/finance), pick a few stocks and check their stock prices over the past few days.
Check what the opening price was for each on September 13th and the closing price on the 15th (stocks don’t trade on Saturday).
The price you see is the price per share at any given time.
To "buy" the stocks with you 10k, decide how much you want to spend on each stock, then divide that amount by the opening stock price on the 13th.
For instance.
To buy:
Say JNJ opened at 59.98 a share on the 13th and you want to buy about $2000 of it.
2000/59.98 = ~33.35 shares of JNJ.
so buy 33 shares for $1979.34 leaving you $8,020.66 to invest.
To see how much you made:
Say JNJ closed at 63.57 a share on the 15th.
Subtract the new price per share from the old price per share: 63.57 – 59.98 = +3.59
You would have made $3.59 per share of JNJ over that time span.
Multiply the earnings per share times the shares you bought.
$3.59 x 33 = $118.47
You would have made $118.47 from you JNJ stocks…
These are the actual numbers for Johnson and Johnson from the 13th of Sept to the 15th of Oct, so that one is done for you.