Motley Fool Company Profile Quiz Entry
A trivia prompt outlines Textron as America's first conglomerate, tracing its evolution from yarns to parachutes, lingerie, tools, golf carts, and fuel tanks. It notes Bell Helicopter and Cessna Aircraft as brands, cites over 10 billion dollars in revenue and about 50,000 employees, and invites readers to submit answers and inquiries to Foolish Trivia at Fool.com and a Motley Fool address in Alexandria.
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Understanding a company market cap and size classes
A market cap equals the stock price times outstanding shares, representing a company's current market value. For Scruffy's Chicken Shack with 20 million shares at $30, the cap is $600 million, while Amazon around $11 billion compares to Barnes & Noble $1.3 billion and eBay $30 billion. large cap starts at $5 billion, with mid, small, and micro caps defined by lower thresholds.
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Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
eBay
Amazon
L.C
Green Bay
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Dumb Investment Lesson From Owning a Tobacco Stock
A reader recalls buying Philip Morris, now Altria, and feeling guilty owning a company that profits from tobacco. He explains pride in holdings matters more than balance sheets and urges socially responsible investing, noting personal conflict affected views on the investment.
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Philip Morris
Altria Group
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Cole
Socialinvest.org
Socialfunds.com
Greenmoneyjournal.com
Goodmoney.com
Amy Domini
Dearborn
Investing for Kids Through Trusts and Plans
Children benefit most from investing but cannot hold brokerage accounts. Use UGMA UTMA trusts or a simple joint account with you as custodian. Dividends and gains pass to them when they reach adulthood, with taxes often favoring their lower brackets. Explore DRIPs and direct stock purchases, and guide teens with Fool and teen investing resources.
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Fool.com
Fairmark.com
Directinvesting.com
Netstockdirect.com
Fool
PepsiCo
Microsoft
David and
Tom Gardner
Selena Maranjian
Emmanuel Modu
Andrea Walker
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Labor groups draw jobseekers in Dunwoody area
Labor seekers pack a Fuddruckers dining room as a weekly Businesspersons Between Jobs session grows from 15 to over 150. Bill Schwartz, unemployed since last May, and other midcareer workers share stories of long searches, depleted savings, and thinning offers. Experts note rising unemployment durations and stress the need for support and practical help.
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Fuddrucker’s
Bill Schwartz
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United Parcel Service
Ballwin
St. Louis
Dale Chisholm
Chisholm
Theuttre
Chesterfield
Princeton
Trinity Church
Niels Nielsen
Pawelczak
New Jersey
Fool Take: SARS cures lure investors in pharma bids
Two drug firms surged on news of SARS treatments but risks loom. Medarex rose after a co development pact with University of Massachusetts Medical School for human antibodies while GenVec jumped on an NIH backed SARS vaccine project. Neither has products, and approvals could take years. Investments remain highly speculative and risky.
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Medarex
University of Massachusetts Medical School
GenVec
GMC
National Institutes of
Shareholder Freedom to Elect Directors Demands Reform
Investors seek power to nominate directors for 5 to 10 percent holdings and to spread money across many stocks. They argue shareholders should be treated as owners with real authority, voting to hire or fire leadership, and advocate reforms to allow investor groups to nominate directors to challenge insiders.
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WorldCom
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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