ECON 21 Principles Of Microeconomics

To determine the “long value”, we multiply then price of a stock on that particular day and the no. of shares.  

The “percent gain,” on the other hand, is calculated by subtracting the original price from the current price and dividing the change by the original price.

At the end of the tenth week, start charting the price and the date of each of the particular stock that you choose.  In three or more paragraphs, discuss the following: the nature of business of the three companies; why you chose it and explain its overall performance. Furthermore, explain whether there are some macroeconomic or microeconomic  reasons that may account for the fluctuations in your stock returns.

This report selects three companies, which are listed in New York Stock Exchange Index. These are Intel Corporation., Comcast Corporation and Xcel Energy Inc. In the following section, the report will analyse nature of business of these three companies.

Intel Corporation:

 Intel Corporation is an America based multinational company, which becomes the second largest producer of computer chip. The company supplies processors to some well known computer manufacturers, such as Lenovo, Apple, Dell and HP. The company also produces network interface controllers, motherboard, chipsets and flash memory. In addition to this, Intel also manufactures flash memory, embedded processors and graphics chips related to computing and communications.  The fluctuation is the stock market of Intel was due to changes in the earnings. Changes in the policies of the banks will also affect the market for stock prices.

Comcast Corporation:

Comcast Corporation is an America based company. This international telecommunication conglomerate is the second largest company of cable television and broadcast.  Comcast Corporation is a kind of public company and is a telecommunications mass media. The revenue collected in the year 2017 was US $84.526 million. The headquarter of Comcast is Philadephia. Comcast had also been criticized for many kind of reasons since it has been known that the customer satisfaction had been ranking lowest in the cable industry. the market share had also increase at  high rate and is also known to be one of the largest operator of cable television operator. As stock prices changes each day as a result of the market forces as a result of changes in supply and demand. As a result of change in the exchange rates there had been fluctuation in the stock market. It will influence the value of the company. The volatility of the rate of exchange will be affecting the performance of the stock in Comcast Corporation.

Xcel Energy Inc.

Xcel Energy Inc is a kind of utility holding capacity which is based in Minneapolis and serving more than three million electric consumers along with one million gas customers in New Mexico in the year 2017. The macroeconomy has a huge effect in the fluctuation of the stock returns and it is also known that the stock market  has always been a significant area in the field of both finance and economics. There had been changes in the stock returns when there had been changes in the price of the crude oil. With the change in the price of crude oil there had been fluctuation in the stock market.  This company is basically of electricity and of utility of Natural Gas. This particular company was chosen since it was a public company and there had been fluctuation in the stock prices. The overall revenue in the year 2017 was US$11.40 billion. There had been fluctuation in the stock market since the individual stocks which will make the stock market fluctuate.

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