*Ticker Symbol: AAPL

*Sector in:Techonology

*Industry:Personal Computers

*What Apple Does:Apple produces several of products such as: macbooks, softwares, iphones, ipods,…Apple also provides services for their products like warranty, repair, itunes, ect.

Web page: http://apple.com

*Competitors: Microsoft Corporation, Dell Inc, Lenovo, ect.

* Apple’s CEO: Steve Jobs

*Revenues for the Year:24,006,000,000

*Graph for One Year:

Stock’s Performance

S&P 500 Graph

*Stock’s 52 Week Low: 85.00

*Stock’s 52 Week High: 202.96

* Apple’s Unique Information:

*The Apple I, Apple’s first product. Sold as a simple board.The owner of this unit added a keyboard and a wooden case. (source:wikipedia). It went on sale at the market in July 1976 with the price at $666.66

*The Apple II as chosen to be the desktop platform for the first “killer app” of the business world in 1977. (source: wikipedia)

Logo from 1976 to early 1998

* The leader of the design team of Imac products is also the person who designs iphones and ipods, Jonathan Ive.

Some Apple’s popular products:

Apple Macbook

Apple Iphone

Apple Nano Ipods

*Ticker Symbol: SNE

*Sector: Consumer Goods

*Industry: Electronic Equipment

*What Sony Does: Produces electronic equipments: Televisions, video products, audio products, ect. Sony also provides financial service.

Web page: http://sony.net

*Competitors:Toshiba, Samsung, Dell.

*Sony’s CEO: Howard Stringer

*Sony’s Revenues for the Year: 70,513,408,000

*Graph for One Year:

Stock’s Performance:

S&P 500:

*Stock’s 52 Weeks Low: 19.12

*Stock’s 52 Weeks High: 57.19

*52 Weeks Range: 19.12 – 57.19

*Company’s Unique Information:

-Sony was created just right after WWII with capital about 190,000 yen, and it had only 20 employees.

- It is a Japanese company

* This 1950s photograph shows a bus belonging to Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation (Sony’s predecessor).

*In 1968, Sony already announced the giant color screen TV 100 inches

which is knows as the

“Sony Color Video Panel”

More interesting information about Sony is available at:

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/capsule/index.html

Some Sony’s products:

Sony Cybershot Camera

Sony Mylo

*Ticker Symbol: ARD

*Sector: Basic materials

*Industry: Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration

*What Arena Resources Does:  Produces oil and makes profit by selling oil and natural gas.

*Web page: http://www.arenaresourcesinc.com/

*Competitors: Cabot Oil&Gas Corp., Chesapeak Energy Corp. Pioneer Natural resources.

*ARD’s CEO:Phillip W. Terry

*ARD’s Revenues for the Year: for the year of 2007 is 100,090,000

*Graph for One Year:

Stock’s Performance:

S&P 500:

*Stock’s 52 Weeks Low: 18.15

*Stock’s 52 Weeks High: 57.60

*52 Weeks Range: 18.15 – 57.60

*Company’s Unique Information:

*It’s a new company just created in 2000 by couple of veteran men. However, it was developing pretty well. It was mentioned in cnn.com about its high rank in the stock market.

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http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0809/gallery.6_hot_stocks.fortune/