Pete's final stock picks

		Google Inc.	GOOG	497.00							3	588.82
		Apple Inc.	AAPL	184.02							25	198.64
		Cablevision Systems...	CVC	24.98							33	25.08
		Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	42.24							40	42.86
		The Washington Post...	WPO	462.03	3 414.90 Final total: 10, 518.42

My stock..

Name Symbol Last price Change Shares Gain
Google Inc. GOOG 588.61 1.1 18 10594.98
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. MHP 30.6 0.26 5 153
Yahoo! Inc. YHOO 15.25 -0.06 14 213.5
Archos JXR 4.24 -0.76 7 29.68
HTC Corporation 2498 365.5 -2 7 2558.5
ASUSTEK Computer Inc. 2357 63.6 -0.2 8 508.8
Hewlett-Packard Company HPQ 49.29 0.31 8 394.32

Portfolio value: +13.47 (0.12%)

Okay, buy technology products, don't buy their stocks

Yonghwan's Results

Yonghwan's results of the investment.

Acer
Before: 81.9 x 50 = 4095
Now : 82 x 50 = 4100

Google
Before: 498.53 x 10 = 4985.3
Now : 589 x 10 = 5890

NYT
Before: 8.39 x 100 = 839
Now : 8.62 x 100 = 862

Total
Before: 9919.3
Now : 10852
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(+) $932.7

I can get a new laptop.

Sung Woo's earning.

I am out of the contest, because I earned less than a thousand.
Here is link to my portfolio.
http://finance.yahoo.com/p?k=tpf_cA9Qw52_jrS0ITg-

Kang's media stock competition

Here is the result of my media stock competition.

Kelly's picks

Well, not so good. I should have followed my wife's advice and bought all Google (up 23%) and Apple (up 16%) but I spread it around to my dismay. I especially should have followed Avery and bought ONLY Google.

News Corp. investment arm -5.99%
News Corp. media arm -0.07
Walt Disney Corp +6.33
Time Warner +4.85
Google, Inc. +23.48
Apple, Inc. +16.12
Viacom, Inc. +13.52
Gray Television, Inc. - 8.94
Belo Corp. +10.82
Discovery Communications +12.74
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Total +10.90
+ $1,098.37

So I finished with about $11,000 - not enough to keep up with Google.

I think I did well

The good news from what I can tell is all of the stocks I purchased have gone up in price.

Apple was purchased for $171 is now trading for $199.

Disney was purchased for $27 a share is now trading for $30.

Netflex was purchased for $47 a share and is now at $58.

And Viacom was purchased for $27 and is now at $31.

That means I have a net gain of 17.53% and I'm up $1740.90.

Go! Amazon!!

How exciting to check the portfolio in the crazy end of semester! After checking it (around 12:00 p.m. on Nov. 30, 2009), I'm more optimistic toward the future...:p

Amazon is amazing! Is it also because the black Friday that brings the stock up? Anyway, I'm satisfied with my earning, especially to the one who lacks the sense/knowledge of stock market like me! :D

Go Google! Or wait, Akamai!

So, after completing my initial portfolio, I shifted gears and went all in on Google. Here's a look at how my original picks did, how my Google pick did and how Apple could (not) have bought me a yacht:

GOOGLE PICK

Original buy: 20 shares at $488.29 for $9,765.80

Final sell: 20 shares at $578.73 for $11,574.60

Profit: $1,808.80 (+18.5 %)

ORIGINAL PICKS

Yahoo $2,313.81 turned to $2,102.31 for a loss of $211.50

Research In Motion $4,208 turned to $2,911 for a loss of $1,297

Cable Vision $644 turned to $611.25 for a loss of $32.75

Washington Post Group $2,409 turned to $2049.75 for a loss of $359.25

Akamai $947.50 turned to $1,180 for a gain of $232.5 (+24.5 %)

Profit -$1,668 (-17 %)

APPLE PICK

Original buy 54 shares at $181.87 for $9820.98

Final sell 54 shares at $200.31 for $10,816.74

Profit $995.76 (+10.1 %)

If I had invested all $10,000 in Akami, I would have made $2,450. If I only had ...