TEACHING AND LEARNING STOCK MARKET BEGINNING INVESTING WORKSHEET LESSON PLAN KIDS STUDENTS ADULTS - READING A STOCK PAGE TABLES - HOW TO READ STOCK PRICES
	STOCK MARKET TABLE     WORKSHEETS AND LESSONS

Before investing in stocks, you will need to understand some basic tools.  One tool is the stock market table.

The stock market tables gives you basic information and price history for stocks.  You can use it to see how stocks you own or are interested in owning are performing, how their prices are changing, and how they have performed in the past.  Reading a stock market table is simple once you understand how to do it.

Here is a sample line from a stock market table for the stock of General Electric:

 

	<1>	Stock ticker symbol	This is the company stock symbol, and it represents the company's stock.  Often, the stock symbol is similar to the company's name.
	<2>	Company Name	This is the name of the stock.
	<3>	Sales 100s	The number of shares that traded the last day this stock traded.  The number is given in hundreds, so you need to add 2 zeros to the number to get the actual number of shares traded.
	<4>	Hi	The stock's highest price the last day this stock traded.
	<5>	Low	The stock's lowest price the last day this stock traded.
	<6>	Last	The stock's last traded price.  Also sometimes called closing price.
	<7>	Change	The amount of change of the stock's closing price and the prior trading day's closing price (2 trading days ago).  A "-" represents a negative change.

You may find stock market tables in many different places.  One place to look in the financial section or your local newspaper, or in a financial publication such as the Wall Street Journal.

The internet makes looking up stock table information even easier by using such sites as Yahoo Finance.  With Yahoo Finance, simple type in the stock ticker (if you don't know it first search for it by looking it up with the company's name).

STOCK TABLE  WORKSHEETS AND LESSONS

HOW TO READ A STOCK TABLE

* How to Read a Stock Table

A guide to reading a stock table.

STOCK TABLE WORKSHEET

* Stock Table Worksheet

Test your ability to read a basic stock table.  Word problems

based on a random stock table.