Stocks and the market bootcamp exam
How shares, prices and markets work. Never stock picks. This exam mixes questions from every lesson in the track. Each explanation links to the lesson it came from.
- What is a stock? Understand ownership and risk
1. A share represents…
- What is a stock? Understand ownership and risk
2. Two ways shareholders can benefit are…
- Compare common and preferred shares
3. Who is usually paid first?
- Compare common and preferred shares
4. Which usually has voting rights?
- Follow a stock trade from quote to exchange
5. When you buy a share on an exchange from another investor, the company receives…
- Follow a stock trade from quote to exchange
6. The spread is…
- Measure company size with market capitalization
7. Market cap equals…
- Measure company size with market capitalization
8. Does a higher share price mean a bigger company?
- Read dividend yield without mistaking it for a promise
9. Dividend yield equals…
- Read dividend yield without mistaking it for a promise
10. A sudden very high yield may mean…
- Decode the P/E ratio: price compared with profit
11. P/E equals…
- Decode the P/E ratio: price compared with profit
12. Forward P/E uses…
- Understand growth and value investing styles
13. Growth companies usually have…
- Understand growth and value investing styles
14. Value stocks look cheap relative to…
- Follow an IPO from offer price to public trading
15. An IPO is…
- Follow an IPO from offer price to public trading
16. Many individuals buy IPO shares at…
- Tell a stock split from share dilution
17. After a 2-for-1 split your total value…
- Tell a stock split from share dilution
18. Dilution happens when…
- Understand market rises, falls and recovery math
19. A common definition of a bear market is a fall of…
- Understand market rises, falls and recovery math
20. Why is timing the market hard?
Lesson tests in this bootcamp
- What is a stock? Understand ownership and risk
- Compare common and preferred shares
- Follow a stock trade from quote to exchange
- Measure company size with market capitalization
- Read dividend yield without mistaking it for a promise
- Decode the P/E ratio: price compared with profit
- Understand growth and value investing styles
- Follow an IPO from offer price to public trading
- Tell a stock split from share dilution
- Understand market rises, falls and recovery math