Payton Tranum
Dr. Rankin
ENGL 1143 Academic Research and Writing
12 September 2017
Safely Spend Money to Safely Make Money
What would an investor do if given $10,000 to invest into five companies? Would the
investor take the safe or the risky route? There are reasons and strategies on how to invest into
companies, but there are three key questions the investor should ask themselves when investing
stocks. Given $10,000 to set up a stock portfolio an investor should consider such factors of why
they chose the five company stocks, decide how much money to invest into each stock, and why
the investor would want a diversified portfolio.
Exxon, Disney, Nike, U.S. Bancorp, and Facebook are the five companies to invest the
