Know it Owl: The Foolproof Guide to Investment
This year, the newspaper has decided to create an investment portfolio where Kate and Charlie invest a hypothetical 100,000 dollars in the stock market. We have curated a 20-stock portfolio of diverse and relevant stocks that could be worthwhile investments. Over the next couple of months, we will update these stocks’ statistics and analyze their volatility, earnings per share and returns. Additionally, we’ll publish articles about changes within the companies and how they have affected stock price and overall success. We picked the stocks to make a diverse portfolio that will hopefully be an accurate representation of how different sectors of the market will be affected throughout the year. We have selected stocks ranging from social networking, conglomerates, ecommerce, cloud communications, manufacturing, telecommunications, oil and gas, and more.
However, we won’t just focus on just these stocks; future columns will highlight important news in both the domestic and foreign stock markets. Starting to invest in the stock market can be extremely daunting for those who are not familiar with how it works. Our goal is to make investing more accessible through careful explanations and analysis that follow basic and understandable logic chains. In fact, we have a column in this week’s print edition on benefits of investing in a Roth IRA.
Investment Column’s Hot 20 Stocks
- Facebook- $362.99 – Social Networking
- Alphabet (Google)-$2831.97 – Conglomerate
- Etsy-$227.31 – Ecommerce
- Danaher-$324.99 – Conglomerate
- Amazon-$3458.28 – Ecommerce
- Twilio-$350.98- Cloud Communications
- ZoomInfo-$68.00 – Virtual Meeting
- Thermo Fisher-$598.01- Lab Manufacturing
- Crowdstrike-$262.14 – Cybersecurity
- Charter Communications-$760.98 -Telecommunications
- Sabre Corporation $11.27- Telecommunications
- NOV Inc $12.38 – Oil and Gas Equipment
- Tenneco Inc. $13.41 – Automotive Equipment
- Frank’s International $2.79 – Oil and Gas
- Advanced Micro Devices $102.69
- Upstart Holdings $325.56- Online Lending Service
- Wesco International $110.22 – Electrical Distribution
- Polaris $116.52 – Vehicle Manufacturer
- Kinaxis $149.99 – Software
- Quisitive Technology Solutions $1.09
Charlie is an interested and passionate senior at Boulder High. This is his first year on the Owl staff and he is excited to learn about journalism and explore his passion for writing. He joined the Owl hoping to find a community of writers and journalists that shared similar interests and passions. Outside of school, you can find Charlie doing anything that involves the outdoors. Charlie is very interested in financial markets and economics, and he regularly writes about financial markets in his newsletter. He also likes to play all types of sports, whether it is dodgeball or nordic skiing. Fun fact: he once played a game of dodgeball with grapes. He played with red grapes because he would prefer...
Kate is an avid learner who has always loved articulating her opinions. She is excited to learn and write in a community with all of the talented and amazing writers of the owl. Her interests include writing about business, economics and finance. Kate enjoys making connections between subjects in school, and The Owl affords her the freedom to make these connections and write about them. Outside of school, she loves to practice and teach yoga, spend time with friends and family, read, and hang out with her dog, Snickers. Fun Fact: Kate has been a die-hard fan of Barack Obama since age four, and has a shrine in her room to commemorate him. Kate is a green grape supremacist and has little to no...
