Virtual Stock Exchange Project
Module 4 SLP Assignment
Sell stock, calculate return, and explain price volatility
Download the Module 4 SLP Template. You will type your answer into this Excel workbook. When finished with the SLP assignment, save the document with your last name and submit to the drop box.
1. Sell all of your interest in at least one company that pays a dividend and include the following information in the Excel template:
Company Name
Ticker Symbol
52-week High
52-week Low
Dividend Yield
2. Assume you bought the stock mentioned in 1. above at the 52-week low and sold it at the 52-week high. What would the rate of return be for this stock?
3. Choose the stock with the most price volatility over the project. Attempt to explain why this fluctuation occurred using information about the company, the industry, and/or the macroeconomy.
SLP Assignment Expectations
Answer the assignment questions directly.
a. Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
b. For computational problems, make sure to show your work and explain your steps.
c. For short answer/short essay questions, make sure to reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. Citation and reference style instructions are available at Trident University’s Introduction to APA Style, 7th edition. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC Portal.
