How to read stock options?

Question

I have an Economics assignment, and my teacher gave us 240,000(not real money)

and asked us how we would use it.

I want to know if investing in Nvidia would be a good idea, and how would I be able to tell what is a good stock and what is bad.

I really don't know how to read that.

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ANVDA

Answer 1

Learn more about stocks, and you will know how to read that page.

Tell your teacher that you would not invest in stocks until/unless you are educated enough to make profound, wise investment decisions.

Instead, do a bit of background on mutual funds and buy a few, buy some bonds, and leave some in cash.

Your teacher should be impressed.  I'm sure your teacher will be teaching you about this stuff, but in the meantime you may want to do some background on investopedia.com (tutorials section). Good luck!

Answer 2

This is not a stock option, it is general stock information.  

The same information is laid out much better on Yahoo! Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NVDA

Go here to Investopedia for basic information on reading stock tables.

http://www.investopedia.com/university/s...

How do you know if a stock is good or bad?  There are entire books written on the subject.  A simple answer is - if you think the company's profits will grow in the future faster than its competitors profits then it is a good stock to own.