Applications
1. Large market trades, whether they are
2a. Exxon Mobile is ticker symbol XOM.
2b. The share price follows the @ symbol.
2c. 660 × $92.67 = $61,162.20
3a. Verizon Communications Inc is ticker symbol
3b. The share price follows the @ symbol.
3c. 3,320 × $38.77 = $128,716.40
4. Home Depot is ticker symbol HD.
5. 1.1K = 1.1 × 1,000 = 1,100
6. Each share of HD was traded at $29.13.
660 shares of Exxon Mobile were traded.
9. Home Depot had a $1.13 increase so the
previous days close is $29.13 – $1.13 = $28.
10c. 4,500 × $66.75 = $300,375
10d. 23,600 = 23.6K
11a. Disney is ticker symbol DIS.
11b. $34.90
11d. 7,600 = 7.6K
$34.90 + $0.98 = $35.88
13. 0.65M = 0.65 × 1,000,000 = 650,000
14. Each share of BAC traded at $36.17.
16. The trading price of Kellogg Co. was $0.04
higher than the previous day’s closing price.
17c. $34.90 + $1.08 = $35.98
18a. 36,000 = 36K
ABC 36K@37.150.72
XYZ 1.24K@9.171.01
$8.11 + $0.56 = $8.67
21. The day’s money flow is the average of the high,
5/15 money flow
++
⎛⎞
22. 6/6 money flow
++
⎛⎞
6/7 money flow
= $584.68 $578.32 $580 4,974,100
3
⎜⎟
⎝⎠
Lesson 1-6 Stock Transactions
Check Your Understanding (Example 1)
Check Your Understanding (Example 2)
Multiply to find the purchase price and selling price
$85.89 × 125 = $10,736.25 selling price
$10,736.25 – $8,530 = $2,206.25 gain
Extend Your Understanding (Example 2)
Check Your Understanding (Example 3)
Check Your Understanding (Example 4)
potential capital gain as a percent, expressed as a
decimal.
Applications
1. People who do research on stocks could come
to different conclusions as to what is going to
necessarily have to feel that the price is going to
go down.
2. $21.35 × 200 = $4,270 purchase price
3a. $38.64 – $34.50 = $4.14 gain
(x)($34.50) = $4.14
(x)($20,700) = $2,484
$31.27 × 200 = $6,254 selling price
$6,254 – $2,450 = $3,804 gain
7b. $3,600 0.375 100 37.5%
$9,600 =
10a. Capital Gain = Selling Price – Purchase price
= yx
11. Divide the change in price by the 2003 price:
39
12a. She had a gross capital loss because y < x.
12b. Tom is correct because both formulas can be
13b. Multiply the total purchase price by 40%: 0.4gw.
13c. Add the original purchase price and the capital
14b. Multiply the price per share by the capital gain:
14c. Multiply the capital gain by the number of
shares: 1.4dx.
14d. Add the original purchase price of half the
shares to the capital gain of half the shares
14e. There was a gain, because the selling price of
the first half of the shares was 1.2dx, and the
original purchase price of all d shares was dx.
price: x > 4,093.75.
would be greater than or equal to the purchase
price minus $1,000 and less than the purchase
Lesson 1-7 Stock Transaction Fees
Check Your Understanding (Example 1)
Check Your Understanding (Example 2)
Since Jared’s portfolio value is greater than
Since the fee for one automated telephone trade is
Check Your Understanding (Example 3)
Check Your Understanding (Example 4)
Net proceeds = h – (0.01)h – (p + 40) = 0.99hp
Applications
1. The investor and the stockbroker are each in
control of their decisions. Investors can make a
stockbroker, or make their own decisions on
which stocks to buy and sell.
2a. Since Carlos makes less than 100 trades per
year, his fees are in the first row of the table:
2d. First 100 trades: 100 × $17 = $1,700
2e. Since Carlos makes less than 100 trades per
2f. The purchase price of the stock is xy
Multiply the purchase price of the stock by the
commission rate to get the commission paid.
3b. $6,000 × $47.29 =$283,740
3c. $283,740 × 0.01 = $2,837.40
3d. $3,000 × $92.67 = $278,010
3e. $9,000 × $100.38 = $903,420
4a. Cost = 200($18.12) + $30 = $3,654
Net proceeds = $4,179 – $3,654 = $525
4b. $4,200 – $3,624 = $576
= $100
Net proceeds = $100 – $194.43 = –$94.43
5b. $110 – $192.50 = –$82.50
Laura had a capital loss.
Net proceeds = (xp0.02xp) – (xy+20)
= 0.98xpxy20
8. Write an equation to solve the expression, “2%
of what number is $19.”
$300 = $20,300
Sale proceeds = $28,600 – $21 = $28,579
Sale proceeds = y – 0.0125y
Net proceeds = y – 0.0125y – (x + 0.01x) =
12. Cost = (400)$23 + (0.01)($23)(400) = $9,200
Sale proceeds = (400)($23.25) – $30 = $9,300
Net proceeds = $9,270 – $9,292 = –$22
13. $3,560.25 =
x($23.50) + (0.01)($23.50)(x)
$3,560.25 = $23.50x + $0.235x
Lesson 1-8 Stock Splits
Check Your Understanding (Example 1)
Market cap = Number of shares × Market price
Check Your Understanding (Example 2)
Set up a proportion.
Check Your Understanding (Example 3)
Check Your Understanding (Example 4)
The market cap remains the same before and after
Extend Your Understanding (Example 4)
Check Your Understanding (Example 5)
Post-split share price = b
a × Pre-split share price
3 × $62.79 = $41.86
Fractional part × Market price = 0.5 × $41.86
Applications
1. Musashi urges people to “see distant things as if
things.” In other words, be cautious because
things may not always appear to be what they
x
x = 940
2b. Since this was a 2-for-1 split, the post-split price
per share will be half the pre-split price: $69.48 ÷
3a. 3
1 200M
=
x = 600M
3c. $168 × 200M = $33,600M
$56 × 600M = $33,600M
x
2x = 2,250
x = 1,125
5a. 1
8 2,400
x
=
price: $2.13 × 8 = $17.04.
5c. $2.13 × 2,400 = $5,112
6a. 1
10 35,608,800
x
=
split price: $0.41 × 10 = $4.10.
6c. $0.41 × 35,608,800 = $14,599,608
7a. 1
10 200
x
=
7b. Since this was a 1-for-10 reverse split, the post-
split price per share will be ten times the pre
split price: $2.15 × 10 = $21.50.
x
7d. $21.50 × 434M = 9.331B
8. Post-split price per share = $203.80
9a. 5
41
x
=
9b. 6
51
x
=
x
x = 2.5
2.5-for-1
x
x = 1.6
y
6 × $18 = $15
Post-split outstanding shares = 6
5 × 4,800,000 =
Fractional part × Market price = 0.5 × $22.66
12. Post-split shares = 5
4 × 325 = 406.25
13. The formula is the split ratio times the
15. The pre-split market cap formula is the pre-split
Check Your Understanding (Example 1)
Dividend income = xy
Check Your Understanding (Example 2)
Check Your Understanding (Example 3)
Check Your Understanding (Example 4)
Yesterday’s close is today’s close plus the opposite
Check Your Understanding (Example 6)
Applications
1. If a stock does not pay a dividend, you can only
— you are relying on what another person thinks
4. The quarterly dividend is the number of shares
multiplied by the annual dividend divided by four:
5. Quarterly dividend = 2,000 × $0.17 = $340
6. Multiply the quarterly dividend by 4 to get the
7. Since
y represents the quarterly dividend,
multiply by 4 to get the annual dividend, then
$33.86 (100) 1.0%.
9a. 4y
11. Preferred stockholders are entitled to assets and
earnings ahead of common stockholders.
$41.57 1.6%;
Am Ex = $0.72 (100)
$46.15 1.6%;
AIG =
$0.80 (100)
$34.91 2.3%;
Cat =
$1.44 (100)
$2.60 (100)
Coca-Cola =
$57.44 2.6%;
E! =
$1.64 (100)
$47.63 3.4%;
13f. The dividend has not changed. The price of the
14c. Yield = $2 (100)
$61.85 = 3.2%
14f. The dividend has not changed. The price of the
stock is going down, and that decreases the
denominator of the yield formula, increasing the
yield. The corporation’s stock is falling, and that
is not good news to the investor.
16a. Since this was a 3-for-1 split, the post-split price
per share will be one-third the pre-split price:
$54.24 ÷ 3 = $18.08.
16b. 3
x
=
Assessment
Really? Really! Revisited
1. June 1: $0.01
June 6: $0.16 × 2 = $0.32
June 13: $20.482 2 × = $40.96
June 14: $40.96 × 2 = $81.92
June 15: $81.92 × 2 = $163.84
June 25: $83,886.08 × 2 = $167,772.16
June 26: $167,772.16 × 2 = $335,544.32
June 27: $335,544.32 × 2 = $671,088.64
June 28: $671,088.64 × 2 = $1,342,177.28
Applications
1a. Let 3x represent the amount invested by Nick.
Let 7x represent the amount invested by Matt.
3
x + 7x = $73,000
7x = 7($7,300) = $51,100
2. $47.65 × 1.20 = $57.18
3. Multiply the shares owned, s, by three and
divide by the total number of shares to get the
decimal equivalent owned by the top three
4. 2,000
× $25.43 = $50,860
$5.51
$33.50 = 0.1644 = 16.4%
5b. 450 × $33.50 = $15,075
5c. 450 × $39.01 = $17,554.50
7.
450 = $1.84
8.
4
y
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day’s low.
10d. $37.86 + $0.79 = $38.65
$50.48
ITT Ed Services had a high that was
approximately 30% less than its 52-week high.
11c. Find the day where the horizontal bar on the
12a. Look at the bottom of the vertical line; about
14b. Post-split share price = 10 × $1.20 = $12
14c. Pre-split: 1,200 × $1.20 = $1,440
3
Jun 4: $27.80 $27.31 $27.54 $27.55
3
++ =
Jun 10: $27.49 $27.71 $27.89 $27.70
3
15b. Jun 6: 28.05 28.44 28.18 28.31 28.32 27.80 27.31 27.54 28.30 27.49
10
+++++++++ = $27.97
Jun 9: $28.05 $27.71
$27.97 $27.94
10 10
−+=
10 10
16a. 0.67 × 1,000 = 670
16b. $5.01
16c. 670 × $5.01 = $3,356.70
19. Since it was a y-for-p split, the value of the
p
p
20. Cost = $9,600 + (0.0175)($9,600) = $9,600