Stock+Market+Instructions


 * Research Stocks**

Pick five companies you are interested in investing in and prepare a wiki page that will include all of your companies.Your page name should be your first name and last initial. Please separate each company by using the "Insert Horizontal Rule" button on the editing toolbar. Your five companies must be different then everyone else. We will pick companies in class using a systematic method. The information that you need is below. For grading purposes each company should be set up the same way, __see McDonald's example below__. Be sure to have headings with bold font.

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 * Information that needs to be included for each company:**
 * Company Name (linked URL)
 * Logo
 * Current Stock Price/Graph (embed graph into Wiki page)
 * Stock symbol
 * Market it is Traded on (NYSE/NASDAQ)
 * Do they have any new products they are researching or introducing to the market? (RSS feed of Press Releases from Company)
 * News about the Company (RSS feed about the company, but not released by the company)
 * Industry the Company is in
 * What they produce
 * Current P/E ratio and P/E ratio of 3 of their competitors
 * Dividend Information
 * 52 Week High/low
 * Who are their competitors (links to 3 competitors)

20 points for each company that has all information above with labels for each category (see McDonalds example) 18 points for each company that is only missing 1 piece of information and has labels for each category 16 points for each company that is missing 2 items and has labels for each category 14 points for each company that is missing 3 items and/or items are not labeled 12 points for each company that is missing 4 items 10 points for each company that is missing 5 items 8 points for each company that is missing 6 items 6 points for each company that is missing 7 items 4 points for each company that is missing 8 items 2 points for each company that is missing 9 items 0 points for each company that is missing more then 9 items
 * Grading:**

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 * Helpful Videos:**
 * RSS Feeds:**

[|McDonalds]



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 * Stock Graph:**

Stock symbol:
MCD

Stock Exchange:
NYSE

**RSS Feeds from company:** rss url="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/corporate.rss?c=97876&Rule=Cat=news~subcat=1" link="true" number="5" date="true"

RSS Feeds from other sources:
rss url="http://feeds.finance.yahoo.com/rss/2.0/headline?s=MCD&region=US&lang=en-US" link="true" description="true" number="5" date="true"

Industry:
Restaurant

What they produce:
Copied from [|Yahoo Finance] McDonald's Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a worldwide food service retailer. It franchises and operates McDonalds restaurants that offer various food items, soft drinks, coffee, and other beverages. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 32,478 restaurants in 117 countries, of which 26,216 were operated by franchisees; and 6,262 were operated by the company. McDonald's Corporation was founded in 1948 and is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Current P/E ratio and Competitors P/E:
McDonalds 16.42 [|Yum! Brands, Inc.]20.66 [|Darden Restaurants, Inc.]14.42 [|Wendy's International, Inc.]248.24

Dividend Information:
Div & Yield: 3.08 (3.50%)

52 Week High/Low:
85.92 - 102.22

Competitors:
[|Yum! Brands, Inc.] [|Darden Restaurants, Inc.] [|Wendy's International, Inc.]

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