How many of the Dow 30 stocks finished Q1 with a gain?
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I think is 21. Next time do your homework. i could be wrong
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try those\n\nhttp://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/market/top10industries.asp\n\nand\n\nhttp://news.morningstar.com/QuarterEnd/Q22004BestWorstStocks.html
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As of Today,,according to Yahoo Finance...\nThe Top 10 mutuals return:\n\n3Month> 23.7% to 36.6%\n1 Year>  60.6% to 75.5%\n3 Year>  45.9% to 50.6%\n5 Year>  37.9% to 47.8%\n\n........................................\nYahoo's Screener returns these results\n\n"All>Down more than 50%>Year to Date"\n1 Fund)  --85.7%\n\n"All>Down more than  10%>1 Year"\n25 Funds--- Range  -10.3% to -88.9%\n\nHowever,,that 88.9 Loss is a sorta exception.\nThe Next Loser on that list is -34%\n#11=  -17%\n#12=  -13%\n\nThere are Only 5 showing ,,Down more than 25%\n\nAnd only 179 showing "Down more than 0% 1yr"\nWhile there's 16,643  "UP more than 0% 1yr"\nWith 13,433 "UP more than 5% 1yr"\n..........9,762 "Up More than 10% 1yr"\n\n\nSo,,of Over 16,500 Funds,,,,\n25 are Down More than 10%\nvs\n9,762 UP more than 10%\n6,061 Up more than 15%\n\nFrom that simple comparrison it seems a safe assumption that a "Dart Thrown" amongst ALL Mutual Funds could be expected to return 10% or better\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\n\n"Worst Case"....???\nOnly 25 of more than 16,000 are Down more than 10% in current 1 yr period AND 3yr period\n\n51 are Down more than 10%,,Y-T-D\n561 of 16,600+ are Down More than 0% YTD\n\nThat's 30:1 Odds of hitting a Gainer larger than +0%,,,\non nothing but a Blind Grab.\nA LITTLE research can be expected to better those Odds exponentially,,in my opinion.\n\nOk,,we all are familiar with the saying,\n"Past Performance is No Gaurantee of Future Results".\nEZ enough to understand that.\n\nYet on the Other hand,,according to both Market Logic and Common Logic it's a valid Assumption that \n"IF the Fundamentals Underlying a Fund's Performance remain basically IN TACT & In Effect,,,,,\nThe Fund's Performance Model will be approximately replicated."\n\nPut Another way,,,If most all things remain equal about the Fund,\nIt's Reasonable to expect the Fund  to perform in a Similar manner.\n\nIt Might have done +20% last year,,,if things stay Similar,,\nOne could reasonably expect a +10 to 20 % range as a basic assumption.\nA Drop from +20% to +10% is a HUGE Correction Factor to include in any assumption of "all things remain equal"--the basic fundamentals being maintained.\n\nLets apply that to a couple of examples:\nGold and Oil both have about TRIPLED in last 3~4 Years.\nObviously,, Funds weighted in Those Now Reflect  That RISE.\nActually,,they reflect Commodity Pricing + Actual Enterprise Value +++INVESTOR SENTIMENT>>Momentum.\n\nBut can Anyone in their right mind think that Gold or Oil will TRIPLE AGAIN in next 3 yrs or so?\n200$ to 600$~700 Gold,,,,OK,,,but $650 Gold to $1,950?\n$20 Oil to $60's,,Sure,,but From HERE Forward..$60's to $180's??\nWithin next 3~4 years??\nNaaa,,No Way.\n\nSo we CANNOT Logically assume Gold or Oil will "repeat" the Performance of it's current 3yr and 5Yr record.\nIt can CERTAINLY Do Very Well,,,but it's Recent Performance is an Anomaly,,,a Unique Situation.\nAND,,it was (arguably/Probably) coming from a UNDER-valued position----it had a Latent/Dormant UNrealized Value which accounts for a substantial %% of it's Upward Move.\n\n\nNow lets look at DEFENSE SECTOR for a example contrary to Above.\nDefense itself had a Windfall UP-Move.\nWe CANNOT (Or at least HOPE NOT) expect the\n MOTIVES/MKT- Forces to REPEAT.\n\nBut even so,,,the Fundamentals of The COMMERCE of Warfare/Defense  remain Intact,,,and are expected to do so thru next several years.\nThe DEMAND for relative Products/Services is not only Still Growing,,it's EVOLVING.\n"The Big Picture" of DEFENSE is one of GROWTH.\nWhich means Growing Sales/Revenues/Profits,,,it means Innovation,,,it means Mergers & Consolidations..\nBlah,Blah....\n\nSo if we Compare something like Gold &
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http://www.google.com/search?q=DOGS+OF+THE+DOW\n\n"Dogs of the Dow" is a stock picking strategy based on selecting high dividend stocks from the "Dow stocks".\n\n0) There are 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.\n1) Find the 10 stocks (of 30) that have the highest dividend yield.\n2) Buy equal dollar-amounts of each of those 10 stocks.\n\nThere are variations on the Dogs strategy:\na) ignore the one stock with the highest dividend yield - there might be a reason why the stock-price is down.\nb) SMALL DOGS or PUPPIES OF THE DOW - of the 10 stocks with highest dividend yield, take the 5 stocks with the lowest stock-price and buy equal amounts of those 5.
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I just did a 5-7 minute about the Dow Jones Industrial Average. I included who created the D.J.I.A. (Dow,Jones, Bergestor), what it shows (a gauge of the U.S. economy) and what companies are in it (30 big Industrial companies).\nI am in Toastmasters for 3 years, so have some experience in public speaking.
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The blue-chip DJIA index hit a lifetime high of 11,750.28 on Jan. 14, 2000 and the S&P 500 touched its high of 1,553.11 in March the same year. But the Nasdaq is still far from its peak of 5,132.52 seen in March 2000 during the technology bubble.\n\nAs of the end of the regular trading session on Monday, April 24th 2006, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 11,336.32
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1. The NASDAQ 100 concentrates on Technology Stocks and excludes financial stocks, whereas the Dow Jones Industrial Average is more general.\n\n2. The DOW Jones Industrial Average only contains 30 stocks, making it very sensitive to changes in a single stock, whereas the NASDAQ 100 contains 100 stocks.\n\n3. The DOW Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted average, whereas the NASDAQ is a weighted-average based on market capitalization with certain rules capping the influence of the largest components.\n\n4. From wikipedia - Another issue with the Dow is that not all 30 components open at the same time in the morning. Only a few components open at the start and the posted opening price of the Dow is determined by the price of those few components that open first and the previous day's closing price of the remaining components that haven't opened yet; therefore, the posted opening price on the Dow will always be close to the previous day's closing price (which can be observed by looking at Dow price history) and will never accurately reflect the true opening prices of all its components. Furthermore, in terms of candlestick charting theory, the Dow's posted opening price cannot be used in determining the condition of the market.
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There is aroud 30,000 sold at aution each year \n1 - 1.5 million sold each year
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Right now, Exxon at 355B is edging out GE at 345B.  You can use Yahoo's stock screener to get a general idea of the top ones in terms of market cap.
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Whoah!  Hold the bus!  The advice that includes gregarious reactionaries and traders like Cramer or commodities needs to be held off with the proverbial "ten-foot pole."\n\nGo to CNN Money, Motley Fool, MSN Money, Netscape Investing etc. which will give you a clear, comparatively safe starter advice.  Ask your broker (I recommend Scottrade, sharebuilder, or schwab) about some Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) like Diamonds or Spydrs or the like--these let you buy a cheap sampling of the Dow Jones Industrials or the Standard & Poors 500, comparatively safe but still very good, profitable companies.  They are about as sexy as steak and potatoes, but they are as substantial as steak and potatoes.  \n\nAs for individual companies, first--does it make a profit?  As for any other features, news, or events, first, does it make a profit?  Second, does it have a triple-digit price to earnings ratio?  Then there are too many people thinking it will be big and it won't likely be big enough to please them all.  If you divide the profit by number of shares (most stock sites will give this information for free, usually doing the arithmetic for you), and the result is higher than 30-something, stay away.  If the number is a negative number, go back to the other rule, first, does it make a profit.
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i would check with a brokerage firm rather than a bank. stock brokers would want to lock up the stock for sale when it is eligible and therefore would be better equipped to evaluate its worth.\n\ncall any of the major companies or discounters like Schwab and ask for the department that handles 144 stock.
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Hi April,\nTaking what you know you have some amount invested at 5% (or.05) and the remainder of 30,000 invested at 9% (or .09). Since the first amount is unknown, we will call it X. Once we invest that we have the remainder to invest at 9%. \n\nLet X= amout invested @ 5%\n30,000 - X = amount invested @ 9%\n.05X + .09(30,000 - X) = 1940\n.05X - .09X + 2,700 = 1940\n-.04X = -760\nX=$19,000 \n\n$19,000 @ 5%\n$11,000 @ 9%\n\nOR\n\nLet X = amount invested @ 9%\nSo, 30,000 - X = amount invested @ 5%\n\n X(.09)  + ((30000 - X)*.05) = 1,940\n.09X - .05X + 1,500  = 1,940\n.04X = 440\nX= 11,000\n\n$11,000 @ 9%\n$19,000 @ 5%\n\n\nConfirms\n\nYou may further confirm:\n($11,000)(.09) + ($19,000)(.05)\n=$990 + $950 = $1,940!\n\nHave fun with your math :-)
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There are two ways to do this. One is to actually go to the dow jones website where they break out the information or two, is to take an arithmeetic average of the P/E of all 30 components (IBM, MSFT, WMT, DELL, etc)
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200k or around there.  I couldn't find the exact number.\n\nWith dividends reinvested also, at least 2 million. http://www.ciepac.org/bulletins/ingles/ing383.htm
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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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this leads to list of companies with names that maybe easier to copy-paste in batches into excel. i don't see the capitalization value though\n\nhttp://www.allstocks.com/html/complete_list_of_stocks__nyse_.html
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Lets' say you start with 200 and you end with 260.  Your gain is 260-200=60.  Your percentage gain is 60/200=0.3=30%\n\nGain is (E-S)/S