what does .pk mean in a stocks symbol?
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the other answer is partially correct. PK means pinksheets. However pinksheets is not owned by NASDAQ and most NASDAQ companies meet strict guidelines to be listed. As for pinkseet stock, very limited if any disclosures are required to be in place for a listing. If you go to pinksheets.com you can read all about it.  You can also check the individual stock and see exactly what information is available. While they don't have to report, some do voluntary reports.\n\nbtw- the .pk or .ob seem to have been added sometime ago by Yahoo for quote purposes. Has nothing to do with what country they are from. It has to do with the exchange they are listed on.
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It is a Public Income note - basically a hybrid equity/debt security.  Companies issue them to raise capital, much like a preferred stock.  People buy them for the dividend flow, typically.
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The stock symbol in the U S is NTDOY.  Currently trades at $28.41.  8 U S ADRs equals 1 Japanese share.
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Are you talking about LMC--Lundin Mining Corp on the Amex, or IMC Mortgage--IMCC on the Over The Counter trade?  We usually use the all upper-case for the symbols because, in this case, we cannot be sure since the lower-case "L" can look like an upper-case "i".
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i don't know, but here is the ticker symbol http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRWHF.PK
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- This a lost in Stock Mark Index.\n- It loses 0.49 points.\n--------------
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What's the symbol?  It's possible that the symbol is no longer valid.  It may have changed (this happened with Phillip Morris, which became Altria), the company may have been bought out and been absorbed into the new parent company (as happened with Compaq when they were purchased by Hewlett-Packard) or the company may have been delisted.\n\nIf any of those things happened, they wouldn't be on *any* financial site, Yahoo! or otherwise.
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FIFO, LIFO, and Average Cost generally refer to merchandise, especially food inventory. I'm not sure it really applies to stocks.
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.pk stocks are pink sheet stocks.\n\nThese stocks are EXTREMELY speculative and risky.  You could easily lose every cent you put into them.  They are also very small, and do not meet listing requirements of the major stock indeces.  Additionally, they usually trade very very small volumes and are hard to buy and sell.\n\nMost brokerages restrict your ability to buy these on margin etc..  I am not saying dont trade them, just be careful.
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To find a symbol, go to Yahoo finance and click on symbol lookup to the right of get quotes.
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There is one under Wingdings in the Insert Symbol section, character code 252 and also one for character code 254\n\nThere are also "x"s... check Wingdings 251-254\n\nIf you want a "cheat", use Wingdings2 as your font type.  Then the capital letter "P" is a check mark
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P/E is shorthand for the ratio of a company's share price to its per-share earnings. For example, a P/E ratio of 10 means that the company has $1 of annual, per-share earnings for every $10 in share price. Earnings by definition are after all taxes etc.\n\nA company's P/E ratio is computed by dividing the current market price of one share of a company's stock by that company's per-share earnings. A company's per-share earnings are simply the company's after-tax profit divided by number of outstanding shares. For example, a company that earned $5M last year, with a million shares outstanding, had earnings per share of $5. If that company's stock currently sells for $50/share, it has a P/E of 10. Stated differently, at this price, investors are willing to pay $10 for every $1 of last year's earnings.\n\nP/Es are traditionally computed with trailing earnings (earnings from the past 12 months, called a trailing P/E) but are sometimes computed with leading earnings (earnings projected for the upcoming 12-month period, called a leading P/E). Some analysts will exclude one-time gains or losses from a quarterly earnings report when computing this figure, others will include it. Adding to the confusion is the possibility of a late earnings report from a company; computation of a trailing P/E based on incomplete data is rather tricky. (I'm being polite; it's misleading, but that doesn't stop the brokerage houses from reporting something.) Even worse, some methods use so-called negative earnings (i.e., losses) to compute a negative P/E, while other methods define the P/E of a loss-making company to be zero. The many ways to compute a P/E may lead to wide variation in the reporting of a figure such as the "P/E for the S&P whatever." Worst of all, it's usually next to impossible to discover the method used to generate a particular P/E figure, chart, or report.\n\nLike other indicators, P/E is best viewed over time, looking for a trend. A company with a steadily increasing P/E is being viewed by the investment community as becoming more and more speculative. And of course a company's P/E ratio changes every day as the stock price fluctuates.\n\nThe price/earnings ratio is commonly used as a tool for determining the value the market has placed on a common stock. A lot can be said about this little number, but in short, companies expected to grow and have higher earnings in the future should have a higher P/E than companies in decline. For example, if Amgen has a lot of products in the pipeline, I wouldn't mind paying a large multiple of its current earnings to buy the stock. It will have a large P/E. I am expecting it to grow quickly.\n\nPE is a much better comparison of the value of a stock than the price. A $10 stock with a PE of 40 is much more "expensive" than a $100 stock with a PE of 6. You are paying more for the $10 stock's future earnings stream. The $10 stock is probably a small company with an exciting product with few competitors. The $100 stock is probably pretty staid - maybe a buggy whip manufacturer.\n\nIt's difficult to say whether a particular P/E is high or low, but there are a number of factors you should consider. First, a common rule of thumb for evaluating a company's share price is that a company's P/E ratio should be comparable to that company's growth rate. If the ratio is much higher, then the stock price is high compared to history; if much lower, then the stock price is low compared to history. Second, it's useful to look at the forward and historical earnings growth rate. For example, if a company has been growing at 10% per year over the past five years but has a P/E ratio of 75, then conventional wisdom would say that the shares are expensive. Third, it's important to consider the P/E ratio for the industry sector. For example, consumer products companies will probably have very different P/E ratios than int
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Fidelity Lvrgd Co Stock:  Ticker Symbol (FLVCX)
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I couldn't find Bio-microbics as a stock symbol.\n\nI found US microbics  (BUGS)\n\nIn looking at the website, it might be a wholly owned subsidiary of RLR Inc. and that would explain why I couldn't find a stock symbol.  \n\nHere's a link to their website.\n\nhttp://www.biomicrobics.com/Pages/companyoverview.html
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it stands for Standard and Poors 500.. it's a rating of the top five hundred coorpoarations for investors, it's like a stock market thing. kinda like the NASDAQ or dow jones
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SKU stands for "Stock Keeping Unit." It is a common term for a unique numeric identifier, used most commonly in online business to refer to a specific product in inventory or in a catalog.