NASDAQ

The NASDAQ Stock Market is the second largest stock exchange in the U.S. with approximately 3,200 publicly traded companies (Hom, 2012). In order to be listed on the NASDAQ, companies must meet a minimum requirement of maintaining $1 stock price, and the value of outstanding stocks must total at least $1.1 million (Hom, 2012). Trading occurs using automated trading systems and offers automatic execution of trades. The NASDAQ uses the index in order to provide a market performance snapshot by measuring the change in more than 3,000 traded stocks and is heavily focused in technology stocks (See Appendix A for performance chart of the NASDAQ from 1996 to 2016). Both Coca-Cola (KO) and Amazon (AMZN) are listed on the NASDAQ and are included in the…

which has two basic objectives: (1) require that investors receive financial and other significant information concerning securities being offered for public sale; and (2) prohibit deceit, misrepresentations, and other fraud in the sale of securities. Another law Madoff violated was the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with this Act, Congress created the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Act empowers the SEC with broad authority over all aspects of the securities industry. This includes…

The corporation has seen a meteoric rise in sales since 2011, going from 234.24 million dollars in revenue, to a whopping 1.39 billion, in 3 short years. This 4-year trend of increased sales is indeed as good an indicator as any that the company is extremely profitable. Despite it’s growing success, GoPro is far from a monopoly, as it does have its share of strong competitors such as Contour, EyeSee360, and Vieviu (rivalfox.com). The GoPro corporation initiated its Initial Public Offering on…

Although the stock market might let you down, I won't. Sorry for the delay everyone! I would like to start of by saying thank you for all of your support; I received a lot of helpful comments about Financial Fridays. A large number of people have asked me about investing, so here are some insights that I would like to share with you today! One of my favorite websites to learn from as well as keep track of news is Nasdaq, the second-largest stock exchange. It was created to satisfy the demand…

The stock trade utilizes floor exchanges to encourage its exchanging procedure. As said before; NYSE isn't just the biggest Stock Exchange in the United States yet additionally over the world. The market capitalization of the organizations recorded here added up to about US$19.3 trillion as at June a year ago (33% of the aggregate trades on the planet as finally year). Intercontinental Exchange; an organization recorded on the NYSE claims the stock trade, and the organization was established in…

GoPro is a, “12-year-old company [that] pioneered and remains the standout in the miniature mountable high definition video camera market” (NASDAQ). GoPro invented this “category …[and] has the potential to grow way beyond the historical camcorder category” (NASDAQ). Go-Pro currently holds the majority market share of this industry with 42% of the market share. The next closest competitors are fighting over the remaining 58%, in which there is no clear leader (NASDAQ). However, GoPro competitors…

The immense pressure that an external auditor, AIS security auditor faces daily is immense. This is due to their nature of work, which is under constant scrutiny. Outside factors can also cause the ethical morality and technical skills of the auditors mention above to be under scrutiny if not handled correctly. In the article called How Russian Hackers Stole the NASDAQ by Michael Riley one can see such example of an external factor. Not only must they perform well for their accounting firm, but…

Also NYSE is an auction market and Nasdaq is a market market, in the other hand, they both have traffic controllers. Nasdaq is a high tech market , the stocks are known to be growing, where in NYSE, their stocks are more stable. Nasdaq is a public company and NYSE is a private company. In my opinion, I would prefer to invest in Nasdaq, because I highly believe that the telecommunications industry is raising so much and has really good projections of keep growing. Looking at Nasdaq projections…

outperformed the S&P 500 by 2% in the past 4 weeks, but has underperformed the S&P 500 in the past 1 week. Netscout Systems (NASDAQ: NTCT) During the past 4 weeks, traders have been relatively bearish on Netscout Systems, hence the stock is down -2.84% when compared to the S&P 500 during the same period. However, in the past 1 week, the selling has subsided and the stock is only down by -0.12% relative to the S&P 500. The 4-week change in the price of the stock is -1.45% and the…

dollars that allows them to pay out claims towards customers while $1.4 billion are returning in distributions, bank rebates and dividends. USAA has a net worth of $29 billion that is utilized from assets that helps them generate great services for members. These numbers help USAA gain a great deal of profit every year while growing; USAA losses funds as well like any other company would due to expenses. Investments are key for USAA to benefit better opportunities in numerous ways especially…