What factors influence the value of common stock?
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A simple answer: a company's expected profits, the public's confidence in the comapny's operations (ability to keep costs down, good corporate reputation, increasing market share, new and compelling product releases), laws and regulations passed and enforced by the government, and the general economy.
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Demand and price are proportional to each other. Sensex, share price of the company tell the value/standard/status of the company(in making profits).
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Effect on company:\n\nLower interest costs, shift of financing over to equity from debt\n\nEffect on shareholders:\n\nDilution to old shareholders, possible change in control due to change in percentage ownerships and/or shift in eligibility for directorship\n\nEffect on holders of convertable bonds:\n\nStop receiving coupon payments (if there were any), start receiving dividends (if applicable),now an equity owner, potentially eligible for directorship (if ownership is high enough)
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There are indexes representing big companies (top 500, etc) but nothing representing all stock market equity in the world.  As it happens the US is approx 25% of world capitalisation.
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It definitely has to do with the total valuation of a company which is figured by multiplying the umber of outstanding shares by the share price.  There are small-cap, mid-cap, and large cap stocks.  You have probably only heard of large-cap stocks like Cisco and Microsoft.  However, small cap stocks make up a huge portion of the stock market.
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Common stock is that owned by the general public.  It is on the lower end of the scale over priority stock which is offered to corporate officers, especially if there were a time of bankruptcy (like United Airlines and K-mart recent bankruptcies) then the common stock often becomes worthless, while the priority stock continues to have value after the company comes out of bankruptcy.
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The Market determines the price of a traded option.  But you can get an idea of what factors make up option pricing by researching the Black & Scholes option model.  It's very complicated because it takes into account: price of the underlying stock, the option strike price, the interest rate, the life of the option, the volatility of the stock, and other things.
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Most important is probably the S&P/Moody's ranking.  The higher/safer the ranking, the lower the interest rate that it has to pay.  Over time, if the ranking changes, then the value of the bond changes.  Changes can come from the company doing well/poorly over time.\n\nGeneral interest rates also determine the value.
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I dont know what kind of answer you're expecting. I'm New York USA. We have the Nasdaq, S&P 500, New York Stock Exchange and a few others. Stocks go up and down. You would need to learn alot about stocks and how they work before "getting into stocks". \nStock  101. A small company decides they will incorpate their business. When they incorporate they give stocks to other members of the company. These members are then shareholders. Each share has a worth. It could be $0.20 or $20.00 or anything else. As more people buy the cost of shares rise. As more people sell the cost of shares drops. People get ansy about buying stocks. It's like gambling. You don't know if the your shares will go up or down. People study the company and the market. For instance, Someone has designed a machine that will make typing a letter much easier than using a typewriter. With a typewriter you have to press hard on the keyboard. You must buy ribbon. You must buy correctype and if you want a different font you will nead to buy a new daisy wheel or other item in order to change the font. This new machine will prevent more error because it allows you to see the words before they reach the paper, which give you a chance to backspace without using white out or correct type. No wasted ink. Less paper to throw away because less mistakes are made. And hey my machine even has a spell check. The person who invented the machine has already told all his friends. He has an article in the newspaper. Some reporter had an interview with him. He has even written a short book about it and some new other inventions he has lined up. He has a 10 year patent on his machine. Now keep in mind that the manufacturer of the old typewriter has many "shareholders". The manufacturer of the correct type or white out also has share holders. The Ribbon Manufacturer also has shareholder and the manufacturer of the ink for the ribbon also has shareholders. The new typewriter is called a word processor. He going to sell his new word processor to book publishing companies first. Then hes going "Go Public" and have the outside public buy shares. He just announced the new and improved word processor for the home office. Its lighter and more affordable. It will be just a matter of time before the old typewriter is out of business. A smart shareholder would sell his stock once he/she read or heard of this new invention and start buying shares of the manufacturers of the material (sony, toshiba, texas instruments) of the new machine as well as the new machine (brother, panasonic).\nAnother example: You know that there was a tsunami that destroyed the cities where the largest manufacturer (Company A) of computer memory chips were manufactured. You also know that the second largest manufacturer (Company B) of computer memory chips will now become the largest until Company A gets back on its feet. You had shares in Company A. Well you are going to sell those or just expect a major loss but you've thought ahead and borrowed some money and purchased a huge amount of stocks from Company B. Smart move unless you did'nt read that there was another Company A manufacturing plant in another city not affected by the tsunami.\nDepending on how much you want to invest and on what kind of risks to take will determine how you want to invest. High Risk = Stock Broker. Low Risk = Mutual Funds, CD's, Treasury Bonds.\nI would suggest speaking with stock broker. But be very weary, they are bigger snakes than used care salesmen.
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EVERYTHING. THE DOW PULLS OTHER COMPANIES UP WITH IT. LIKE BOEING (BA) FOR EXAMPLE. BA IS AT A HIGH BECAUSE OF THE BOOMING WORLD ECONOMY. AND SO, FIND OUT WHAT IS WORKING IN THE S AND P 500 AS WELL AS THE DOW 30, THEN DO RESEARCH TO FIND WHERE THE DERIVED DEMAND IS. EXAMPLE, ATI , ALLEGANY TECH., THEY ARE BIG INTO TITANIUM WHICH CORRELATES TO THE BOEING ORDERS, ALL METAlS WILL BE BOOMING AS LONG IS BA IS DOING GOOD. CAT IS ALSO PERFORMING WELL. HPQ IS DOING GOOD AND IT IS NO SUPRISE THAT SEAGATE IS DERIVED FROM HPQ OR COMP MANUFACTURERS IN GENERAL. YOU WILL PROBABLY MAKE MORE MONEY OFF THE SMALLER DERIVED COMPANIES LIKE ATI AND SEAGATE, BUT YOU GOT TO KNOW WHY. SEC.GOV IS THE BEST PLACE TO GET REASEARCH ON THE DOW, HENCE, ALL THE PRESS RELEASES GO THERE FIRST. WHEN YOU SEE BA HAS A LESS THAN EXPECTED QUARTER, YOU SELL THE ATI ETC.\n\nALSO, IT IS ALWAYS A GOOD TECHNICAL INDICATOR THAT THE MAJOR INDEXES ARE AT NEW HIGHS AFTER A FIVE YEAR SPELL. I DON'T SAY ALWAYS W/O PARALLEL. IF YOU LOOK AT HISTORY. THERE HAS RARELY BEEN A TEN YEAR SPAN OF TIME WHERE THE S AND P HASN'T APPRECIATED AN AVERAGE OF TEN PERCENT A YEAR. THE 70'S WERE FAR WORSE THAN 2000 TO NOW IN TERMS OF GEOPOLITICS, OIL, INTEREST RATES, DOOM AND GLOOM, ETC. AND THE INEDEX STILL PULLED OUT A 10% GAIN (AVERAGE FROM 1970 TO 1980). THIS MATTERS, THUS, WE ARE VIRTUALLY FLAT FROM 2000 TO 2006. AND SO, MY THESIS (BASED ON HISTORY) IS THAT 2006 TO 2010 WILL APPRECIATE ENOUGH TO GIVE US A 10% AVERAGE GAIN FROM 2000 TO 2010.
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Dividends are the primary reason, but everyone counts on capital gains that's why dividend yields are so low. If you're just counting on capital gains, that's not tax efficient because the value of the stock goes up just because of inflation, yet you're taxed on that (even though the real value has stayed the same).\n\nPeople here is the main reason why capital gains cannot be the primary reason... because it depends on somebody else buying it after you at a higher price? And then someone has to buy it after them. That's not sustainable. The primary reason should be dividends because the company is making money with the money you "lent" them... not keeping it all for themselves (if they don't pay dividends).
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give me all your money and ill help you...ha ok ok i wont joke...\n\nhonestly...it depends on how you want to weigh your options theres MANY ways to invest... And the more you can gain in an investment the more of a risk there is.  If you want a low to zero risk investment then you could simply but it savings or bonds...and save with compound interest.  (putting the interest earned back into the same account.)  If you definetely want to try stocks out which there's an adequate risk rate then you first need to know the difference.  There's common stocks and there's preferred stocks.  Common stocks are the most ...well..common stocks there are...Over the long term, common stock, by means of capital growth, yields higher returns than almost every other investment. This higher return comes at a cost since common stocks entail the most risk. If a company goes bankrupt and liquidates, the common shareholders will not receive money until the creditors, bondholders and preferred shareholders are paid.   You could also invest in prefered stocks.. With preferred shares, investors are usually guaranteed a fixed dividend forever. This is different than common stock, which has variable dividends that are never guaranteed. Another advantage is that in the event of liquidation, preferred shareholders are paid off before the common shareholder...That's about all i'll go into here...I know pretty much all the rest but should help...Just find a company you have faith in and go from there.
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Major Factors affecting price:\n\n1. OPEC's supply (inverse relationship... lower=higher)\n\n2. cost and ability to refine \n\n3. taxes imposed by local, state and federal government\n\n4. consumption (demand)
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In the short run stocks can move on emotion & incorrect information/assumptions/rummor. In the long run these all balance out with reality. Over time, valuation is ultimatly reflected. That's not an exact point in time. But the value of a stock over (let's say) ten years is more of an indication then the last week.
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Contrary to popular belief, most companies do not have unlimited resources. Through strategic planning a company is able to marshall resources into its core competencies, leverage other business units to grow the bottom line and identify future growth opportunities for the company. All of these factors increase the value of the company which as far as shareholders are concernd, is the only thing that matters. Esp., if the value translates into greater profits, an appreciated stock value, higher dividend payouts....
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You can determine the book value by taking owners equity (assets less liabilities) and dividing by the number of outstanding shares.\n\nYou could attempt to determine some type of fair maket value by getting a multiple of price to earnings from a publicly traded company of a similar size and similar business and multiplying that times net income of the company your trying to value.  You would then need to discount that for lack marketabilty (maybe 15%). Then divide this result by the number of outstanding shares.  There are a lot of factors that go into valuation not discussed here but this gives you a VERY ROUGH GUESS.
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The answer to this question is highly dependent on a number of factors, including the company's industry, competitive position, strategy, operating budget, and the risk tolerances of its owners.  The appropriate debt to equity ratio and dividend payout rate depends will be influenced by:\n1.  Current assets and liabilities will determine the amount a short term debt financing is available from a bank on a revolving line of credit.  Excess availability may be needed to fund short term seasonal needs.\n2.  The amount and type of long-term assets will help determine the amount and type of term debt available.\n3.  The company's fixed charge ratio (commonly, EBITDA divided by the sum of maintenance capital expenditures, taxes, principal and interest on debt) should be maintained at a comfort level (depending on the type of business and industry, at least 1.2 and probably 1.5 - investment grade companies are well over 2.0)\n4.  Cash flow required to fund growth (working capital and growth capital expenditures) will reduce the amount available to pay dividends.  \n5.  Dividends should come out of cash flows needed to maintain and grow the business.