Question

Instructions

Using the Wall Street Journal or IBD, look up the following stocks: General Electric, Ford Motors, Microsoft, and Intel, and answer the following questions for each stock. You might have to refer to several issues of your newspaper for all of the information if the paper rotates the information daily. You might have to do some web research to get the answers.

a.What is the current price of the stock? What was the net price change for the date covered by the paper?

b.What was the stock's price range for the last 12 months?

c.What is the current dividend? What is the dividend yield?

d.What is the PE ratio?

Answer 1

General electric: 03-12-2018

Current price:$15.10
Net price change =+0.16 or +1.07%
Price range 13.95 to 30.54
Dividend = $0.48
Dividend yield = 3.2%
PE ratio: 0

Ford:

Current price:$1.60
Net price change =-0.02 or -1.23%
Price range 1.02 to 4.45
Dividend = 0
Dividend yield = 0
PE ratio: 32

Microsoft:

Current price:$96.77
Net price change =+0.23 or +0.24%
Price range 64.12 to 97.21
Dividend = $1.59
Dividend yield = 1.7%
PE ratio: 28

Intel:

Current price:$51.52
Net price change =-0.67 or -1.28%
Price range 33.23 to 52.30
Dividend = $1.0775
Dividend yield = 2.3%
PE ratio: 15