My Portfolio by Alex Ghorishi Allotment of Money Allotment of Money Allotment of Money: Table Company Name Symbol Price per Share Shares Total Price MicrosoftMSFT Bank of AmericaBAC TJX CompaniesTJX TargetTGT Whole Foods Market WFM Toyota MotorTM Exxon MobilXOM McDonaldsMCD Microsoft(MFST) RRecent deal with Samsung QQuarterly earnings and revenue are higher than HP MMicrosoft and Samsung are working together on smartphones Microsoft Graph Bank of America (BAC) BBad news: European banks soar while American banks struggle IING Groep was up 3%, while US banks like Citigroup was recently down 0.5% and Bank of America was down 0.4% after falling more than 2% earlier BBank of America added a $5 monthly fee for users who use their debit cards to purchase items TThis fee has been criticized by Senator Durbin and President Barack Obama Bank of America Graph TJX Companies (TJX) CCustomers are still favoring bargains AAs prices of Macys and TJX go up, customers are going to discount retailers BBad news for these department stores SSlow job growth and weak consumer spending TJX Graph Target (TGT) Stock is difficult to buy Approaching moving average Has the highest dividend of general merchandise companies, 2.4% Now includes food discount stores and fully equipped online store in addition to their general merchandise stores Target Graph Whole Foods Market (WFM) SSells fresh food only TThis appeal to buyers because they advertise their food as healthy MMarket Cap of 11 billion PPE of 36.33 Whole Foods Graph Toyota Motors (TM) TToyota is seeing sales decline after Japans tsunami and earthquake in March SStrong Japanese Yen is hurting trade, which includes Toyotas sales IIn Japan, it is a good time to buy, not to sell Toyota Graph Exxon Mobil (XOM) Slowing pace of global recovery and turmoil in Libya have forced oil prices down Share prices are going down Good news, Libya is soon going to be producing 500,000 b/day Also, new oil drills are being opened Exxon Mobil Graph cDonalds (MCD) People knocking on doors for new jobs, job growth All employees are being trained professionally Opening new restaurants McDonalds Graph Stock Results after Trading At first, I invested $9, At the end of the fourth day, I had $ This resulted in a loss of $237.37 Graph of Results The Graph Explained As shown by the graph, at first I spent almost $10,000 After one bad day in the stock market, my total dropped to almost $9,500 The next two days, the stocks rose to about $9,750 Precise Totals First Day: Second Day: Third Day: Fourth Day: Bibliography "Microsoft, Samsung Expand Smartphone Partnership." 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