Business topic - Stocks

Business topic - Stocks

Learning Objectives

Conquer: Understand the concept of stocks and why a business has them. 

Aspire: Research and choose 3 businesses to invest in. 

What is a stock? 

A stock is a type of investment that represents a part ownership of a company. 

When you buy a stock, you own a small part of that company and may earn money if the company does well and its value goes up.

Stock prices

Stock prices can be affected by many different things:

• Products selling well
• Products not selling well

• You can purchase and sell stocks at anytime, the goal being your stock rises in price so it sells for more. 

Can you think of anything that may impact the price of a stock?

Stock prices

Stock prices change every single minute, impacted by a range of factors.

These prices are to buy 1 stock of the company.

What is a stock?

1. Owning a share of a company
2. Research into a company
3. The owner of a company
4. The product the company has

Which of the following does not affect the stock price?

1. A new product release
2. A bad news article about the company
3. Your opinion about the company
4. A new invention the company has made.

Stock research 

People will research a company before the decide to invest, the will look at the good and bad things to see what will impact the price. 

Over the next 2 weeks we will research 3 stocks to invest in.

Competition 

You are going to choose 3 companies to invest in.

You will have a budget of £10,000

There will be a leaderboard of the best performing students

Prizes will be awarded.