Initial investment: 19,906.57 Ending Portfolio: 21,153.81 Brokerage/ SEC Fee: 102 00 Total Ending Value: 21,051.

81 Capital Gain: 1,145.24 ROI: 5.8%

Stephanie Ramirez Period 4 Economics Honors Completion Date on April 19, 2013

Stock Summary Company Name: Disney Ticker Symbol: DIS Stock #1 $10,000/56.83 (price) = 175 Number of Shares 1. Company Profile This business is a worldwide entertainment company, and was founded in 1923. It is well known for its media network involvements, it owns 8 television stations, and 35 radio stations. This company also owns theme parks and hotel resorts in Florida, and within contains other sources of distractions as restaurants and stores. The resorts are not only in Florida but around the world and also own a cruise line. Furthermore, produces books apparel, games, utensils, music, entertainment, among other things, and it is licensed and all owned by Disney. 2. Industry Industry: Entertainment - Diversified DIS Sector / Industry Membership Services Sector: Entertainment Diversified Industry: 3. Target Market The company Disney has a target market for all ages and genders. They produce products for children as well for adults and the elderly. They are a family oriented family trying to sell to the whole family, their services as well as their entertainment. 4. Major Competitors Disneys has three main competitors as of 2011. Pvt1 = NBCUniversal Media, LLC (privately held) NWS = News Corp. TWX = Time Warner Inc. 5. Company Size: Disney is a large company because it has productions and services around the world. They have their theme parks, resorts, and vacations cruises around the world needing personnel working for them all over. They are also at the top compare with other entertainment companies competing with them, and have about three times the workers that the other companies have with 166,000 employees.

Personal Strategy The reason I chose this company as one of my stocks was because we went over it in class and it seemed ideal to continue the process that was already started. I also noticed how the stock for this company has increased drastically through its years, and I was in hope that it would just keep increasing while I did my project. Disney also paid a dividend so I did not mind that. Obviously my love for Disney, especially Disney movies had a bias input to me choosing the company. Finally, the financial news that has been showed by this company gave me the courage to choose it with its positive reviews. Selling I chose to keep my stock all the way through the whole project till the end because I noticed that it was increasing and was making profit. I had faith that I was going to make money if I kept the stock, and I did. Graph

Stock Summary Company Name: The Coca-Cola Company Ticker Symbol: KO Stock #2 $10,000/38.76 (price) = 257 Number of Shares 1. Company Profile: The Coca-Cola Company manufactures, produces, and sells beverages around the world. It distributes all around the world, non-alcoholic drinks. Its main headquarters is located in Atlanta, Georgia in the USA. It was founded in the year 1886, and it has become a very influential company all over the world. 2. Industry: Industry: Beverages - Soft Drinks KO Sector / Industry Membership Consumer Goods Sector: Beverages - Soft Drinks Industry: 3. Target Market The Coca-Cola Company targets their market to any age and any gender that is willing to consume their beverages. They produce many different beverages with different flavors, including water. Children, young adults, adults, and the elderly can all enjoy and consume their beverages.

4. Major Competitors The three major competitors for The Coca-Cola Company are DPS = Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. NSRGY = Nestl PEP = Pepsico, Inc. 5. Company Size It is average sized, compared with its competitors. Nestle makes more money, and has more employees, that is probably due to the fact that Nestle makes more products other than beverages. Coca-Cola contains about a quarter employees of what Nestle has, but it is still not much behind from it. Overall it can be conclude that this company is on a high average for the production it does.

Personal Strategy The reason I chose this company for my second stock was because I personally love Coca-cola products, the water Dasani is a favorite of mine, aside from the actual sodas. I also studied how the company has increased throughout the years, and it looked promising. The shares were also cheap the day I bought them; I was hoping I would make profit. It also paid a dividend, so that pursued me even more to choose it. Overall there where good reviews from the financial news and I was sold, I chose this stock to be my second stock. Selling Like my previous stock I did not sell the stock but finished with it till the end of the project. The reason I did not sell or traded was because my stock was increasing and I was making a good profit. I did not want to miss the opportunity to make more money the next day. Graph

History of the Dow Jones Notes 1. Very frequently hot stocks are sold like lottery tickets to as many people that will buy them. 2. The Dow is a person, and average, and a company. 3. Charles Henry Dow was born November 6th, 1851 in Connecticut. 4. Samuel Bowels guided Dow for 3 years in his financial writing for the newspaper. 5. He first went into financial writing in 1889, when he was selected to go to Leadville, Colorado, & wrote many articles that were very successful. 6. Dow 1871 worked for the Kidman News agency in New York Wall Street. 7. In 1881 Dow got married with Lucy. 8. Dow Jones in 1882 put out brief costumed afternoon letters, a 2 pager about happenings on Wall Street. Then they had runners who distributed this message. 9. On July 3, 1884 the company chooses 11 companies that will do a follow up on the actions of the stock market. 10. On July 8, 1889 was the first edition on the Wall Street Journal that was published. 11. On the edition of May 26, 1896 had how 12 companies will be followed up with actions by the Dow Jones. 12. July 30, 1914 the stock exchange was closed due to the war. 13. After the Great was the Dow had raised to almost 400. 14. Black gold had almost tripled the price in the mid seventies. 15. In 1997 the company gets licensed to have thei name as Dow Jones Indexes. Summary The Dow is a company, average of top stocks that determines the state of the whole stock market. It started as published averages indicating of stock and market performance. Now it uses companies who provide financial services, unlike before it was strictly agricultural and heavy industries.

Current Events

3. PepsiCo beats expectations despite soda struggles

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pepsico-beats-expectations-despite-soda-144708085.html Summary The PepsiCo has increased its sales although the other competitors, such as Coca-Cola have decreased during these passed days. Coca-Cola suffered a drop Thursday in the stock market, accompanied by other business like nestle, but PepsiCo increased. They believe they are doing well in sales because they sale other products other than beverages, such a snacks, PepsiCo also has the support if pop star singer Beyonce.

4. Jobs, factory data point slowing economy http://finance.yahoo.com/news/jobless-claims-rise-marginally-last-123410124.html Summary Last week the number of unemployment rate took a rise and the number of factory work decreased. It is thought that since the economy was doing badly in the month of March it carried on to the month of April causing a large number of unemployment. People are worried that the economy will have a drastic drop in employment, and the world must find a way to make it better. The theory behind the bad economy at the moment is thought to be because of factories. Factories are not producing as much merchandise as they should causing people to get fired and less people buying, obviously having this negative impact in the worlds economy and employment rate.

Project Evaluation What did you learn about the stock market ability to indicate what is happening in the US economy. When the stock market rises or drops it does not only affect the US economy but the whole world. When stock prices rise the economy seems to be doing than usual, but as it drops we see how our country struggles to rise up again.

What are some of the things you learned by doing this project? Some of things I learned by doing this project was to understand better how the stock market worked. I learned how people sold, traded, or bought their stocks and got an idea of the extra expenses it came with it. I also saw how it had such a great impact on how our economy was doing.

What recommendations do you have to improve the project for next year? Personally I liked how our teacher asked us to turn in our current events because it kept use on top of things. If she could ask for other parts of the project with anticipation, it will help students stay on top of their projects and complete them in a timely manner. Overall it was develop and I enjoyed doing the project.