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Chapter 11 Financial Planning Exercise 9 Interpreting stock quotes

Assume that the following quote for the Walt Disney Company, a NYSE stock, appeared on some particular date of 2019 on Yahoo! Finance ( https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DIS?p=DIS&.tsrc=fin-srch):

The Walt Disney Company (DIS) - NYSE
138.01 +2.40 (+1.77%)
Prev Close:	135.61	Day's Range:	136.39 - 139.68
Open:	141.07	52wk Range:	102.29 - 137.82
Bid:	138.01 x 800	Volume:	23,891,567
Ask:	139.00 x 1800	Avg Vol (3m):	7,947,016
1y Target Est:	151.04	Market Cap:	247.845B
Analyst Recommendation	Buy	P/E (ttm)	20.85
Next Earnings Date:	Feb. 3-7, 2020	EPS (ttm):	6.62
		Div & Yield:	1.57 (1.16%)

Given this information, answer the following questions.

1. At what price did the stock sell at the time of the quote?

   $

2. What is the stock's price/earnings ratio?

   What does that indicate? Round your answers to the nearest whole number.

   This means that investors are willing to pay more than $ for every $1 of earnings per share that the company generated last year.

3. What is the last price at which the stock traded on the prior trading day?

   $

4. What's the stock's dividend yield?

   %

5. What are the highest and lowest prices at which the stock traded during the latest 52-week period?

   Highest price	$
   Lowest price	$

6. How large is the market capitalization of the company?

   $ billion