Most countries have a stock-exchange where you can trade the stocks of the various companies. If you are starting the investment game, the stock market just looks like a raw list of data (The list below represents the IBEX 35 which is the stock index of the Stock-Exchange of Madrid (source: www.bolsamadrid.es/esp/mercados/acciones): ABERTIS SE.A
ACCIONA ACERINOX
ACS ALTADIS
ANTENA 3 TV.
ARCELOR
BA.POPULAR
BA.SABADELL
BANKINTER
BBVA
BSCH
CINTRA
ENAGAS
ENDESA
FCC
FERROVIAL
GAMESA
GAS NATURAL
IBERDROLA
IBERIA
INDITEX
INDRA A
METROVACESA
NH HOTELES
PRISA
R.E.E.
REPSOL YPF
SACYR VALLE.
SOGECABLE
TELECINCO
TELEFONICA
TELF.MOVILES
TPI
UNION FENOSA If you take a closer look by adding some company information for each stock you could present the same list but sorted in a different way using (sector) categories. Which could look like the list below: Companies in the area of infrastructure and communication: - ABERTIS SE.A
- CINTRA
- TELEFONICA
- TELF.MOVILES
Construction and real estate sector: - FCC
- FERROVIAL
- METROVACESA
- SACYR VALLE.
Companies in the area of commodities (Steel) Tobacco industry: Entertainment, broadcasting (information distribution): - ANTENA 3 TV.
- PRISA (amongst others the newspaper El Pais)
- SOGECABLE
- TELECINCO
- TPI
Financial services - BA.POPULAR
- BA.SABADELL
- BANKINTER
- BBVA
- BSCH
Energy sector: - ENAGAS
- ENDESA
- GAS NATURAL
- IBERDROLA
- R.E.E.
- REPSOL YPF
- UNION FENOSA
Transport and distribution: - IBERIA
- INDITEX (Fashion, Textile)
(Industrial) Production: - GAMESA (Wind Turbines)
- INDRA A (Software Development)
Business services Hotel sector: Now that you have this list you can start the investment process; what sector(s) do I choose, and what stock would be the best for each sector... |
