Dear Professor Garreis,

Thank you for your letter

Homework

1.    A.　Find a stock price quotation of Applied Materials from Yahoo!Finance.   

To find a stock price quote on Yahoo Finance,

 (1) go to the main page

 (2) enter the stock symbol, AMAT, in the search bar space near the top of the screen

(3) From the drop down menu, select AMAT – Applied Materials, Inc -  Equity NMS.

(4) AMAT information will appear on the page.

(5) The stock price per share will be in large bold numbers near the top of the page.

1. B. Tell me:

 (1) the date of the quote, 

Oct,11,2018

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 (2) the time of the quote and

14:00

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 (3) the stock price.

$ 33,844,380 thousand

2.A. Is the Yahoo quote the same as the one listed on the company's web site at http://investors.appliedmaterials.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=112059&p=irol-stockQuote?

2.I’m Sorry, I could not open that URL on my computer.

>Sorry for your difficulty.

>I will show you what I wanted:

I went to Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMAT?ltr=1) and found The Applied Materials stock quote. At the close of the market today, October 15, the stock price per share was US$33.43.

Then I went to the Applied Materials website to find the current stock price. I am sorry the URL did not work for you. It did not work for me either! Sumi massen. I went to the main Investors page for Applied Materials: http://www.appliedmaterials.com/company/investor-relations

The latest stock price per share is found on this page. It was also US$33.43. That’s because I checked the price at midnight, when the US market is closed. If I checked in the daytime, the price might be different because of a reporting delay.

B. If the quotes have different prices, why do you think they are different?

>Usually it is a reporting delay.

4. How easy was this lesson for you?

             The accounting was: _      The English was: About right       Getting to and using the linked web pages was: _

Sincerely,

Haruka