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Finding stock with maximum price

Another useful list method is .index(), which returns the index of the element specified. For example, to get the index of 2 in x, you would use:

x = [1, 2, 3, 4]
x.index(2)

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You can then use this result to subset another list, as you will do in this exercise.

The lists prices and names are available in your workspace.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Python for Finance

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Exercise instructions

  • Identify the index of max_price in the list prices.
  • Use this index on the names list to identify the company with maximum stock price.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Do not modify this
max_price = max(prices)

# Identify index of max price
max_index = prices.____(____)

# Identify the name of the company with max price
max_stock_name = names[____]

# Fill in the blanks 
print('The largest stock price is associated with ' + max_stock_name + ' and is $' + str(max_price) + '.')
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