Stock Journal week 3 Indicate the companies you are investing in: Select three (3) US companies that are publicly traded. There are many ways to find such companies and the stock prices, including the New York Stock Exchange at http://www.nyse.com, NASD

Stock Journal    week 3
   
Indicate the companies you are investing in: Select three (3) US companies that are publicly traded. There are many ways to find such companies and the stock prices, including the New York Stock Exchange at http://www.nyse.com, NASDAQ at http://www.nasdaq.com, and http://finance.yahoo.com.      
   
1) Fred Meyer/Kroger   
2) Best Buy   
3) Nordstrom   
   
Indicate the amount you are investing in each company: Decide how you will divide the $25,000 across the three (3) companies; e.g. $10,000 in Company 1, $10,000 in Company 2, and $5,000 in Company 3. You decide the amount you are investing in each company. You do not have to provide any analysis to justify your decisions. You must only provide some reason for picking that company. For example, you might invest in Ford because that company gets a lot of your money and you hear that Ford is doing well, and will continue to do well.   
   
Fred Meyer/Kroger    $8,000 – I shop here almost eveyday
Best Buy:     $6,000 – I like their product, you get what you pay for and their products hold up well and have a great return policy
Nordstrom    $11,000 - I am a frequent shopper because I like the variety of brand names they carry
   
Indicate the number of shares you are buying, and the price of the shares you are buying for each company: Once you decide the companies and the amount for each company, determine how many shares you can buy. If Company 1 is selling for $42.16, then you may buy $10,000/ $42.16, or 237.19 shares. But you cannot buy a part of a share, so you decide to buy either 237 or 238. In this example you buy 237 shares, at $42.16 per share, investing $9,991.92. You won’t be able to buy exactly $10,000, or $5,000, or $25,000, but it will be relatively close.   
   
Fred Meyer/Kroger:     38.72 a share. Buying 238 shares for a total of 9,215.36
Best Buy:     32.88 a share. Buying 165 shares at 5,458.08
Nordstroms:     72.64 a share. Buying 142 shares for a total of 10,314.88                  
    Select one (1) U.S. publicly traded company and review its most recent Annual Report. ( use one (1) of the three (3) companies you selected for your Stock Journal assignment.)
   
    1) Fred Meyer/Kroger
    2) Best Buy
    3) Nordstrom
   
    Use the Income Statement and Balance Sheet to determine the changes in:
    assets, liabilities, and equity
    total revenue and net income
    Briefly describe the change from the current and prior years in each of these key areas and determine if the changes would be positive or negative from an investor / stockholder’s view.
   
    This assignment must be writtin in Excel.
   
    Stock jounal assignment is attached for further information.