... will discuss the strategy that helped me achieve those goals throughout this paper. Since the economy was on shaky ground after September 11 I decided to buy stock in safe, well-established companies that I new would give me a steady profit. Companies like Microsoft, IBM, AOL, Starbucks, AT&T, Wal-Mart, ... it seems as if they are doing well at the moment, instead of investing in companies like Walgreen, Wal-Mart, and Starbucks which gave me little or no return. I decided to take a chance and buy some stock in companies that I was not familiar with and achieved slight success doing so .....

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... will discuss the strategy that helped me achieve those goals throughout this paper. Since the economy was on shaky ground after September 11 I decided to buy stock in safe, well-established companies that I new would give me a steady profit. Companies like Microsoft, IBM, AOL, Starbucks, AT&T, Wal-Mart, ... it seems as if they are doing well at the moment, instead of investing in companies like Walgreen, Wal-Mart, and Starbucks which gave me little or no return. I decided to take a chance and buy some stock in companies that I was not familiar with and achieved slight success doing so .....

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... in the future to have a good career and make a good amount of money. I think that makes my tolerance for risk relatively high when we are talking about investing. In this investment exercise, I am obviously being more risky and taking a lot more of a chance with my money because of the fact that the money is not ... them to invest some of my money in. Since I am only investing in 2 companies, I have decided to invest $250,000 in each company. Doing so, I have bought 7,084 shares of Verizon stock and 4,347 shares of Wal-Mart stocks. A share of stock from Verizon was $35.29, while a stock f...

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... investment, which is called a "dividend."" The so-called P/E ratio therefore is a basic indicator of the investors "value-for-money."" Most people are not directly involved in day-to-day stock market activities. Their investments are tied up in their retirement funds, mutual funds, insurance programs, etc., which are handled for them by professionals. However, just about everyone has a bank account ... industrial giants, that already have substantial earnings usually have lower ratios. Determining whether a particular P/E is high or low is difficult, and often a matter of judgment. Befor...

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... he originally noted on yellow legal pads. From the very beginning, he wanted to know what the customers purchased, what inventory was selling and what stock was not selling. Wal-Mart now "tracks on an almost instantaneous basis the ordering, shipment, and delivery of literally every item it sells, ... the hand held scanners and better electronic cash registers. Again these devices "helped Wal-Mart become more efficient at tracking goods, reordering them, and keeping them in stock. With the hand held scanners, for example, "managers could now inventory and reorder goods in an hour and a h...

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... guaranteed. Wal*Mart led the industry in 1993, with $67,345,000 in net sales. Their gross profit was 24.9 and net income was 2,333. Their end of the year stock price had gone down slightly form the previous year to $25 per share. One might say that Wal*Mart has been a real player in the discount retail store industry and ... are in the growth/maturity phase and just as Wal*Mart copied industry leaders during this phase, so too are these companies. Whether it's owning their own distribution centers or investing in electronic scanning of UPC at the point of sale, Kmart and Target are catc...

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... known for its low prices, in store pharmacies, blue light specials, and Martha Stewart Collection. Nevertheless, over the past couple of years Kmart has come on to some hard times. Stock prices have plummeted, net sales have become negative, stores have been shut down and thousands of employees have been laid off. To make matters even worse, early this year Kmart ... Hispanic market and has introduced La Playa and Alfabeto toys and clothes line collection for Hispanic children using the Sesame Street logo. Sales are looking much better because Kmart is investing in changing the image of...

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