I am interested in buying stock. What should I invest in?

Question

Say if I wanted to invest $100 in a company...what would be a good company to invest that in? and how much money should i have after say a year? im clueless and i need help

Answer 1

well, its depend on term, if u want to invest in short term better to choice the company who have high reputation such as Wal-mart. but if u looking for long term investment better to choice the company who is starting business. Moreover, look at price earning ratio, Return on equity, Earning per share etc... these are important.  

Answer 2

good old OJ

Answer 3

Watch bnn the link is below. Usually over time banks are the best but they are getting beat up right now. I wouldn't buy them now. Try value investing like warren buffet. There are stock market channels like the one below. You could also try paper trading to see how you do. Basically write down what you would have bought and track it. It is a lot less stressful than losing money. I think we are in a bear market right now. You could also try dollar cost averaging to reduce the risk. Another sneaky way to figure out what to invest in is by looking at the top holdings of mutual funds. What stocks do they have in their funds in the greatest amount. Also which ones appear in the funds most commonly. Buy blue chip stocks. Or ones that pay a dividend.

Some considerations:

currency risk: when investing in foreign stocks if the currency goes up or down the value of your investment goes up and down. For example you are a Canadian and you buy an American stock in us dollars. The stock goes up ten percent but the us dollar goes down ten percent so your stock did well but because of the currency change you didn't. The same can go vice versa though.

Stop loss orders: you can set a limit where you stock will automatically sell at. Like with nortel. You could have set a stop loss and once the stock dropped your stop loss would have automatically sold your stock instead of crashing to the bottom.

Avoid ipo's : initial public offerings

I think with a $100 you  should buy a mutual fund. Ask what is a good mutual fund to buy in your country.

Answer 4

gold

Answer 5

p**n

Answer 6

apple

Answer 7

I would say a steady-growth company, like Wal-Mart, or something that you know will continue to increase in popularity, like Apple. These are good companies to start investing in. Good luck!

Answer 8

Financial stocks as they are the worst performing stocks so far due to Sub Prime and credit issues. Federal Reserve Committee wouldn't let them failed. So far, financial stocks have been bottoming aggressively for almost a year and US currency is now getting strong slowly. Financial stocks are in sidelines moving. Go for it and you would benefit from investing them.

"Be greedy when others are in fear", from Warren Buffet  .

Answer 9

mcdonalds. probably 20 bucks after the year