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THE KEY FACTS:
(quick snapshot... understanding your stock)
100   Stock ticker & Company Profile
110   Anatomy of a Stock - company snapshot
120   What the company does and how it makes its money
130   What Sector & Which Industry?
140   What Competitors?
150   Knowing The Share Price History
160   Knowing Number of Shares Outstanding
     
INTERNAL FACTORS:
(what the company controls)
200   Company Website
220   Annual Report (10K)
230   Latest Quarterly Report (10Q) & Other SEC Filings
240   Conference Calls
250   Earnings Guidance Provided
260   Insider Buying & Selling
270   Stock Splits
275   Secondary Offerings
275   Secondary Offerings
280   Dividend & Yield
     
EXTERNAL FACTORS:
(what others control)
300   Analyst Ratings & Expectations
310   Major Holders
320   Major Index Membership
330   Short Position
340   News Headlines
350   Industry Events
     
KNOWING YOURSELF:
(what you can control)

400   Your Available Time
410   Age/Risk Tolerance
420   Don't Buy All At Once
430   Diversification
     
CHECK THE EXPERTS:
500   Jim Cramer's 25 Rules for Investing
510   Warren Buffett's Stock Portfolio
520   Business News - TV & Newspapers
530   Business News - Websites
540   Last check: Cramer's latest comments on MadMoneyRecap.com
     
TRADING RESOURCES:
600   Stocks 101: The Basics
610   Online Trading 101 (vs. paying a broker)
620   Anatomy Of A Stock:  The Parts
630   Mad Money Recap
640   Setting up your own free Yahoo! Finance Portfolio
650   Stock/Investing Glossary
     
ADVANCED TOPICS:
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700   Open Step
750   Open Step
790   Open Step
     
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Intel Corporation (INTC)

In this example, and throughout all of these stock homework steps, we are using Intel Corporation as our example company and stock.  Its stock symbol is "INTC".

We are big fans of using the Yahoo! Finance site as a stock research tool... so we start off going to that site (see link below), and entering the company name, "Intel", which then auto-fills the form field to show you that Intel is symbol "INTC.".  We see the "BUSINESS SUMMARY"  by going to the bottom of the page, where you can read about what the company does, and the primary way it makes its money.

What you should find in this step:

 
Our Key Findings from this step (using the Intel - INTC - example)...
From this step, the conclusions you should find about Intel are in the following key points:
 
 
 

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