School Stock Market Thing?

Question

I have this project in history class to chose a couple good stocks that i'll be following for the next week or so. Can anybody suggest a healthy, steady stock that will get me some good credit.

Answer 1

You want a "healthy steady" stock? Congratulations, you are the first not to ask for a 1000% increase short term gambling winner. For a real investment, a Healthy steady long term winner, I happen to like companies that make a product people all over the world use every day, use up quickly, and then buy more. Energy and soap/toothpaste/shampoo/cleaning supplies are 2 fields I think will be steady short term, and slow but steady growers long term. People gas up their cars every day and ExxonMobil (ESSO in many parts of the world) seems to be all over the place. For the soap part of it, companies like Proctor & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Clorox, seem to have products used the world over.

Answer 2

Investing in a week or two timeframe makes no sense unless you are a day trader.

Best advice would be to research stocks which have strong fundamentals. A history of profits, good business outlook, steady and well known. Home Depot has long been one of those, although in recent years it's stock price has dropped despite good fundamentals. Starbucks is in a similar boat...doing well but stock price a bit down.

Over the long run good strong stocks will do well. But if you are looking over a few weeks you could just as easily head to Vegas and bet or black or red.

Answer 3

Not sure what you mean by a "healthy steady stock", but why not pick the stock of a company that makes something you are familiar with like Apple (ticker AAPL), Coca-Cola (ticker KO), or if you want to maybe get some brownie points by looking outside the US, consider something like DaimlerChrysler (ticker DCX)?

Answer 4

I'm doing a similar project for school. You might want to consider Mattel (the ticker symbol is MAT). The biggest trick is to buy what you know- popular/well known brands usually get their name out because they are successful. If you can, I would suggest investing in a mutual fund. Go to the fidelity website and look for the mutual funds link on the left hand side.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Try Morgan Stanley (MS) on the New York exchange, which just reported strong earnings for the first quarter.

Answer 7

Goldman Sachs(GS), Apple(AAPL), Yahoo(YHOO), Abercrombie & Fitch(ANF), as for the brownie points, go for a speculative stock. I'd go with Sun Microsystems(SUNW)

Answer 8

Refiners are on a run...pick one of many: FTO..TSO..WNR..ALJ
They run on pace with gasoline prices...should be up for a couple of weeks at least.( more like months)