Review 30 to 60 minutes of financial news programming on television or one of the investment news. Take notes on companies that are catching analysts' attention. You might hear reference to over- and undervaluation of firms and to reports about PE ratios, dividend yields, and earnings per share.

ORIGINAL POST:

[a] Write the name of the Company. Source (website / channel). Date / Time (that it aired / published).

[b] Prepare a brief description of the analyst's position. Is the stock over value or under value.

[c] Substantiate the analyst's observations using one of the ratios - PE ratios, dividend yields, and earnings per share.  Explain what the ratio seeks to measure. What is the result.

[d] Review the Company's most recent financial statement. (Click on finance.yahoo.com and you can search the stock by its ticker symbol - for example, Microsoft is MSFT).

[e] State whether you agree or disagree with the Analyst based on the ratio and your review of the financial statements.  Or another word, would you recommend your peer to buy the stock.

RESPONDING POST:

Indicate whether you will (or will not) buy the stock. Substantiate your reasoning that had not already been discussed in the original posts by googling info about the stock and analyzing the financial ratios.

NOTE:

Technical analysis (income, ratios) that we ask you to analyze is one of many factors to reflect the stock price. Stock price is based on perception that it jumps up/down based on Trump's tweets, no different than you buying a car because of its "perceived value" - its feel, smell, color, and NOT for its MPG. Technical Analysis (or MPG) is just one of many factors.