Wenni Iben NA Topics 6 February 24, 13 Wenni Sophie

The Final Report

By, Wenni Iben Partnered with Sophie Licostie Group name: Wenni Sophie Our Final Value: $99,914.96

Companies and Stock Ticker Symbols: AAPL- Apple Inc. AMZN- Amazon.com, Inc. BK- The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation BKS- Barnes & Noble, Inc. BLK- Blackrock Inc. CENX- Century Aluminum Co. DGAS- Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc. DIS- The Walt Disney Company DOW- Dow Chemical Co. EXPR- Express, Inc. FARO- FARO Technologies Inc. HPQ- Hewlett-Packard Co. M- Macys, Inc. NEO- NeoGenomics Inc. YHOO- Yahoo! Inc.

Introduction: Sophie and I learned a lot about the stock market and how
it works through this stock market project. At first we just bought stocks that we thought would do well, but were already doing well, like Apple. Unfortunately that didnt work out, so we started googling the stocks. That seemed to go well until we realized that wed been reading it wrong. Although Sophie and my stocks didnt do very well in the end, for a while, we were actually making some money. Our rankings overall never got above 4th but never below 8th, which was the place wed ended with, so Sophie and I had consistent rankings throughout the entire game. The stock market game was a fun experience, and although it got pretty competitive, it was always interesting to see who was on top.

Description of Stocks: AAPL: Apple was doing very well in the beginning, which is why I originally didnt want to buy it. We bought it on the second day however, a little after it started going down, and then it crashed since after the iPhone 5 came out, people bought fewer Apple products. We short sold each stock for $457.35 and bought each share for $521.00. AMZN: Amazon, like Apple, didnt do so well, it went down a little over the time we had it, but not as much as Apple. BK: One of Sophie and my first stocks, the Bank of New York Mellon Company was at is peak when Sophie and I bought it and then in started to go up and down. Believe it or not we sold it for a price very close to the amount wed bought it for only one dollar more. BKS: Sophie and I bought Barnes and Nobles hoping it could only go up from where it was, and it turns out we were wrong. By looking at Figure 4 you can see how this stock went up and down. You can also see how we made money, although for a while it didnt seem like we would. We bought it at a low point, and sold it on January 23rd for $13.00 about 24 more then wed bought it for. BLK: When we bought Blackrock, it seemed very stable. It seemed like it wasnt increasing or decreasing, which is why we eventually sold this stock for the same price wed bought it for. CENX: Sophie and I never sold Century Aluminum Co. but if we had, we wouldve made money since it increased after we bought it. DGAS: The first stock wed decided to buy, DIS: Although we sold Disney before it started to go up, I learned the most from this stock. I found out how to read Google and DOW: Dow Chemical Co. was another company that didnt seem to increase or decrease. When we sold it, we only made about 18. Wed bought it for $32.25 and sold it for $32.43. EXPR: Since the day we first bought it Express Inc. increased. In the second week, its price increased by one dollar each day for two days and then stayed at that price. We made money from this stock and sold it for $18.50 while we bought it for $6.31. FARO: Sophie and I bought FARO for $32.15 and sold it $31.70. as soon as we bought it went down and then started to increase. Right before we sold it, its price became $33.33 and that was the highest it got. We lost money on this stock because we didnt have good timing. HPQ: Hewlett-Packard Company, like many of our other stocks, went down from when we first bought it but not by that much. At first it went from $16.67 to $16.01, but then it increased to $17.01. in the end, we never sold it, and it ended at $16.64. M: Yet another stock we never sold, we bought Macys the day the stock market game ended at $40.51. Since we didnt sell this stock, we didnt lose money, but it went down to $40.39 when the game ended. NEO: We bought NeoGenomics for $2.89 and sold it for $2.91. Over the four days we had it, the most NEO changed was only about 5 cents.

YHOO: You can tell by Figure 7 that although Sophie and I made money from Yahoo, had we had better timing, we wouldve made more money than we did. We bought Yahoo for $19.33 and sold it for $19.76. Overall Changes: In my stock market project, our stocks at first went down and then up and then down again. We ended up losing $985.04 mainly because we read Google wrong, but also because we werent as careful with the stocks we picked like how we were with Apple. Progress of all Stocks: This graph shows how the price of each stock progressed: increasing or decreasing. Some of our stocks did well, and some others (as you can see in Figure 1) didnt.

Percent of Change Per Share: APPL: Week 1 to Week 2: -13.4% Week 2 to Week 3: -1.79% Week 3 to Week 4: -.6% Start to End: -12.3% AMZN: Week 1 to Week 2: 1.5% Week 2 to Week 3: -2.5% Week 3 to Week 4: -2.7% Start to End: -1.3% BK: Week 1 to Week 2: 1.5% Week 2 to Week 3: 1.8% Start to End: 1.6% BKS: Week 1 to Week 2: -1.8% Week 2 to Week 3: 3% Start to End: 0% BLK: Week 3 to Week 4: .3% Start to End: -2.3% CENX: Week 3 to Week 4: 2.4% Start to End: 6% DGAS: Week 1 to Week 2: -32% Week 2 to Week 3: 50% Week 3 to Week 4: Start to End: 0.6% DIS: Week 1 to Week 2: 2.9% Week 2 to Week 3: 0.9% Start to End: 6.7% DOW: Week 3 to Week 4: .55% Start to End: .55% EXPR: Week 1 to Week 2: 4.4% Week 2 to Week 3: 0.8% Start to End: 13.4% FARO: Week 1 to Week 2: -1.3% Start to End: -1.3% HPQ: Week 3 to Week 4: .2% Start to End: -0.1% M: Start to End: -.3% NEO: Start to End: 0% YHOO: Week 1 to Week 2: 1.7% Week 2 to Week 3: 3.2% Week 3 to Week 4: 10.05% Start to End: -1.5