West Virginia University TESLA Stock vs S&P 500 Value Weighted Market Index Essay

• “Stock you pick vs. S&P 500”. The detailed instructions for the report are as follows:

S&P 500 Index: Commonly used value-weighted market index, which generally contains large-cap companies across the broad spectrum of the U.S. economy. We can use the S&P 500 index as a proxy for the overall stock market since it roughly represents 75% of the market. Hence, we can consider the S&P 500 index as a benchmark for our investments.

– Pick any one U.S. stock you want (Price information should be publicly available). You may want to go onto http://finance.yahoo.com/ or http://www.google.com/finance among others. Or even better – utilize Bloomberg. – On a weekly basis (once a week or daily), keep track of the S&P 500 index and the price of the

stock that you picked. – Make a chart of the index and the prices starting from July 15th to Sep 10th on the same graph. – Provide a discussion about the movement of the stock price along with brief background

information about the firm. – Provide your expectations about near term price movement of the firm’s stock. – If possible, calculate your own beta for the company using Excel by specifying all steps. – The work must be original. Use your own wording, do not just “copy and paste” (it’s very easy to

check)