Review the Week 5 Final Project. Using the Business Insider’s Dow Jones Stocks (Links to an external site.), S&P 500 Stocks (Links to an external site.), or NASDAQ 100 Stocks (Links to an external site.) pages, select a publicly traded company that has paid dividends for the last 4 to 5 years to use throughout this course. For help finding a company that pays dividends, watch the following video: (Links to an external site.) BUS 401 | Picking a Company that Pays Dividends (Links to an external site.) Note: For this course, you cannot pick PPL Corp. (PPL) or Procter & Gamble (PG) as companies. Also, it is in your best interest to avoid banks or insurance companies. These companies have complicated financial statements and will be difficult to analyze for this class. Additionally, you should avoid picking a company with financial statements in any currency other than U.S. dollars. For example, Toyota Motor Corporation (TM) has financial statements presented in Japanese yen. Thus, Toyota would not be an acceptable company to choose for this class Describe the publicly traded, dividend-yielding company you In your description, include the following: The name and ticker symbol of the company. The current stock price per share for the company. The dividend paid most recently by the company. What interests you mostWeek5. https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/components/dow_jones https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/components/s&p_500 https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/components/nasdaq_100 https://ashford.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/BUS401+%7C+Picking+a+Company+that+Pays+Dividends/1_rc93kdp4 For help in the selection of your company (make sure that your company is a publicly traded company, that is, it's a stock, not a bank or insurance company, not proctor & gamble, the financial statements are in dollars and it must currently pay a dividend) check the following link: Citing Guide for Business Majors (APA 6th ed.): Company& Industry Profiles Sources https://libguides.butler.edu/c.php?g=34156&p=217449
There are numerous
publicly traded organizations im current society, Apple Inc. being one of the
most famous companies internationally. It is a global corporation in the
technology industry that specializes in the production and sale of computer
software, electronics, and online services. Apple Inc. was established four
years before it went public in 1980, the month December. However, the
organization received public recognition around 2012, mainly after it attained
a market value of over 600 billion dollars in the same year (Sun, 2021). Similar
to all other publicly traded corporations, Apple Inc. uses AAPL as its ticker
symbol, which enables the audience to identify the entity’s shares in the
NASDAQ 100 stock market. This company is considered the globe’s most valuable trademark,
as seen in the Hongmeng Group’s 2013 report, with a market value exceeding two
trillion USA dollars in August 2020 (Sun, 2021). Therefore, it is not
surprising that the corporation, Apple Inc., has a current stock price per
share of 142.64 USD as of June 10, 2022.