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Angelia Renee Cady

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August 05, 2012

Darcie Sargent

Websites Search

This assignment was approached with the knowledge of I really did not know where to start looking for the information at first. When I started looking through the different websites, the realization that all I need was a look into would makes it possible for me to understand the ins and outs of the workings of company stock and how it works and affects investors. This information I found from sites like: http://stocks.about.com/, http://finance.yahoo.com/, and http://www.howthemarketworks.com/education/stock-questions.php#dividend. These sites are geared to enable even first time or beginner stock investors to understand what they need to know to invest in a company. As a beginning investor I could go back through look up a company that I was interested to invest in a see its common stock moving average as far back as 5 years, get historical prices for specific dates, and more.

Finding definitions of commonly used stock trading term like stock dividends, stock split, reverse split, and effects on share calculation was the easy part. Understanding them as a first time investor was a little different. I needed them explained in the simplest way; these are the definitions I found: Stock dividend is paid as an additional share of stock instead of cash. If dividends were to be paid in the form of cash, this cash would be considered taxable. If a company issues dividends instead of cash they generally do not worry about taxes until the stock is sold (http://www.investorwords.com/4732/stock_dividend.html). A great many corporations find stock dividends useful especially when there is a shortage of cash on hand. Not to mention that even though a stock holder has more share, ownership and company assets stays the same (http://moneyover55.about.com/od/howtoinvest/a/dividendyi).

Stock split is defined as the dividing of a company’s existing shares...