Over the last few weeks, the senior class has been playing a stock market game on the site Marketwatch.com.In addition to other lessons this project will run until May 31st. The intention is to provide an opportunity for seniors to learn about and explore the stock market, as it can be a very profitable if you are patient and invest wisely. Bridgestone “Your journey to the top is full of twists and turns. That’s why our tires are rigorously engineered to perform their best when you need them most.” The Bridgestone corporation is an auto and truck parts manufacturer (tires). They are known around the world. It was founded in 1931 by Shojiro Ishibashi in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The name Bridgestone means "stone bridge" in Japanese. …show more content…
The company recently released a press release which entailed that their common stocks were to be paid 25 cents per share on April 3, 2017 to all recorded shareholders at the close of the March 17, 2017 business day. The growth and development of the company proves to be a positive sign for investors. Tesla Founded 13 years ago as Tesla Motors. The company is based in Palo Alto, California. They are an American automaker, energy storage company, and solar panel manufacturer. The company specializes in electric cars, Lithium-ion batteries, and residential solar panels. The solar panel portion is based through their subsidiary SolarCity. Tesla is mostly known as an extremely high-class electric car company. They are working to become the next great innovation in automotive technology. Tesla cars are considered to have the most advanced technology of the electric car brands and most high tech auto-pilot system. 2016 revenue was $7.00 Billion As of 2016, the company employs over 30,000 …show more content…
Amazon has a lot of plans to develop how consumers shop, and quite frankly has already revolutionized it. The company`s growth in the long-term appears to positive, but to make a significant profit off of this stock in the short-term may be difficult because of the development of the company. Twitter Created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. Twitter was created and launched in 2006. Headquartered in San Francisco, California it is an online news and social networking service. People use messages called “tweets” to communicate. These messages are limited to140 characters each. This limitation has been considered a major downfall of the company and is one of the supposed reasons why its stock has been dropping. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites. Twitter has more than 25 offices located around the world. Twitter has more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Twitter was the largest source of breaking news, 40 million tweets by 10 p.m. (Eastern) that day. Twitter`s 2016 revenue was $2.52 billion