Step one: review several stocks by looking at stock tables and reading news articles. when you read about the company, be on the lookout for information, such as what products or services they sell, if they have any new products, and if the company has been making a profit.

What does Wells Fargo invest in?

It can be intimidating to entrust a banking institution to store, grow and invest your money. Wells Fargo is one such bank that's been helping its customers and businesses through banking accounts, lines of credit, investing services for more than 160 years. The most common way to purchase individual stocks is through a brokerage account. A Financial Adviser can help you select stocks. The bank reported a profit of $6.06 billion, or $1.21 a share. Analysts polled by Infinitive had expected earnings of $1.18 a share.

Walmart

The retailer offers a variety of services, including retail goods, pharmacy, financial, wireless and photo lab services. Walmart makes $14.7 billion a year in profit and $482 billion a year in total revenue. That would make Walmart the 12th biggest country in the world, if it were a country. Walmart makes $40 million a day in profit and $466 in profit every second.

Apple:

stock traded at $156 per share in NASDAQ. symbol AAPL

makes iphone, ipad, macbook n other electronics

just announced that a new iphone n ipad will be released later this year.

Apple makes tons of $$$

Microsoft:

stock traded at $106 per share in NASDAQ. symbol MSFT

makes windows operating systems, office programs, skype n other software

they always release new windows n office every few years

Micro$oft also makes money but not as much as apple