How to Read the Stock Market Page

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How to Read the Stock Market Page
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52 Week High/Low

• Highest and lowest price a share of the stock has
  sold for in the past 52 weeks.
• Example ABC High was 49
• Example ABC Low was 39

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Stock

• Varies by Newspaper
• Either company abbreviation or ticker symbol
• In A-Z order

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Div

• Annual Dividend per Share of Stock
• Based on the rate of the Last Quarterly Payout
• Annualized Data
• Example ABC 1.30 per share
• Example XYZ 0 per share

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Yield Percentage

• Known as Dividend Yield
• A Measure of the Income Produced
• by the Stock
• Is the Amount of the Dividend
• divided by the Price of the Stock

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Yield Percentage

• Achieved by Dividing the Annual
• Dividend by the Days Closing Price
• Example ABC 1.30/40 .0325
• or as a percentage 3.25

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P/E Ratio

• PRICE- EARNINGS RATIO
• Ratio latest closing price
• of the stock to the latest available annual
  earnings per share of the firm
• Trailing P/E is what is reported in the
  financial section of newspapers
• Forward P/E based on forecasting net years
  future expected earnings

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P/E Ratio

• Example ABC 20 P/E Ratio
• Indicates that ABC is selling for 20 times the
  companys earnings
• Example XYZ P/E Ratio is 62
• Indicates that XYZ is selling for
• 62 times the companys earnings

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Sales 100s

• This represents the volume of transactions on the
  trading day
• Bought or Sold
• Presented in hundreds, simply multiple by 100
• Example ABC 3314
• Indicates that 331,400 shares traded

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High/Lows

• This represents the highest and
• lowest selling price of the stock
• for the day.
• Example ABC high of 40
• low of 39

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Close

• This represents the price of the last stock sold
  for the day
• Example ABC closed at 40

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Net Change

• This lists the net change between
• the closing price for the stock for
• the day and the closing price on the
  previous trading day
• Example BBA Todays Close 76
• Net Change 1
• Previous Day 75

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Earnings per Share

• A means of valuing common stock.
• Part of a firms profit that is
• allocated to each outstanding
• share of common stock.
• Can be a good indicator of fiscal health

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Earnings per Share

• Many investors carefully watch
• this number
• In general, higher earnings per share means
  better dividend and overall
• stock performance.

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Earnings per Share

• Calculated by dividing the
• closing price on the day being
• consider by the P/E ratio.
• Example Todays Close P/E Ratio
• 40.00 20
• Earnings per Share
• ABC 2.00