Apple Stock Research Paper

Nowadays, with competition between companies higher than ever, stock prices of individual companies fluctuate more than ever. You really have to know the company you are investing in and know their history. My team in “The Stock Market Game” made investments in two promising companies. Apple stock has slowly, but steadily rose over the past 10 years and we choose this stock simply because we needed a stock that was stable and reliable. The other company we picked was Dollar Tree Inc, this stock was slightly less reliable and had a bigger risk but it shows to be a promising investment in the near future. If I were to find two companies to make long term investments in, It would be these.

Before we invested, we decided to pick two types of companies to invest in. We would choose companies that had expensive stock but steady increasing prices and we would choose smaller companies that had cheaper stock but whom had a chance for potential huge price increases. If the smaller companies’ stock went down the bigger companies’ steadily increasing stock would even it out, but if the smaller companies’ stock price rose greatly, like we predict, we could sell and make a good profit. We found a big name company that had reliable stock prices pretty quick, but finding a small company whose stock price could rise was hard. We

Food and clothes are getting more expensive for families so they turn to spending little on everything else. Dollar Tree sales goods at very reasonable prices which are easy for consumers to handle nowadays. People are searching for the best deals they can find now and they almost boast about the deals they can find which is good for Dollar Tree. If a person’s friend paid $30 for a t-shirt, then that person will be proud to tell them that they got a shirt for $15. Dollar Tree is cheap, conveniently sized, and local which are all key factors in the store