1. Using Stock Advisory Services. Pick a stock of interest to you and research the company at the library by examining the information contained in reports published by Mergent, Standard & Poor’s, or Value Line, or business periodicals like BusinessWeek, Money, or Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Then write a one- or two-page summary of your findings. Based on your research, would you still want to invest in this stock? Why or why not?
2. Using the Yahoo! Finance Web Site. Visit the Yahoo! Finance Web site and evaluate one of the corporations listed below. To complete this activity, follow these steps.
a. Go to finance.yahoo.com.
b. Choose one of the following three corporations, enter its stock ticker symbol, and click on the Get Quotes button: General Electric (GE), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Abbott Laboratories (ABT).
c. For your corporation, print out the information for the profile, 2-year chart, and analyst opinion.
d. Based on the information included in this research report, would you invest in this corporation?
