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Fundamentals of Investment Management, 7/e
Geoffrey A. Hirt, DePaul University
Stanley B. Block, Texas Christian University
The Investment Setting

Stock Investor Pro Questions

Please use your AAII Stock Investor Pro CD to complete the following exercises.

1.
a. Use the Find Company feature to locate IBM and examine its performance data.
b. In particular, the trends in revenues, earnings, and dividends.
c. Examine the 120-month and 52-week closing price trends.
2.
a. Find the SIC code for IBM and screen the database for those companies whose SIC code has the same first three digits as IBM’s.
b. How many companies are there?
3.
Investing in companies in the computer equipment manufacturing industry is often thought to involve more risk than investing in the electric services industry. Compare the average beta (risk measure) for the companies in these industries. Use SIC codes 357x and 491x, respectively.




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