What does "adjusted for dividends" mean?
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The practical side of dividend adjustment is that charts on the Internet don't adjust for dividends and capital gains reinvestment. For many mutual funds, the distributions can account for very big chunk of the return. \n\nHence, you cannot do meaningful analysis of dividend-paying stocks and mutual funds unless you get adjusted data. Best source (maybe only source) for daily, distribution-adjusted data is http://www.fasttrack.net
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P/E of 30 refers to the average of the whole industry. some of the player like yahoo would have P/E lower than average, some others higher. you can't try to predict yahoo stock only based on industry P/E.
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It means that upon your demand, the company has 45 days in which to include the shares issuable upon exercise of your warrant in a registration statement - which enables you to sell the shares (if you want to). It's fairly common for there to be a penalty if the company is unable to file a registration statement within the specified time period.\n\nIssuing new shares would be dilutive; but, the shares that were issuable should have been factored into diluted EPS\n\nTo exercise the warrant, there should be a form to exercise. If you don't have it, contact the company's investor relations department
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It refers to a general sell off after a run up in price.  People are booking their profits (cashing them in) after the increase so the price will go back down.
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do you mean ex-dividend?  ex dividend is a date that stockholders must own the stock by to be elligible to collect the next scheduled dividend.\n\n\nexample....XYZ Corp will pay $.25 per share dividend on july 1st.  ex dividend date is June 15th.  if you bought your shares after June 15th, you will not recieve the July dividend.
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cost basis for all 468 shares is $570.  However, that assumes there has been no reinvestment of dividends.  \n\nDo you know if this stock has ever paid any dividends?  If it did you should have paid tax on the dividends, and need to adjust the cost basis to add in the amounts used to purchse additional shares.  \nIf for some reason you don't know the amounts, you can always ignore that when you sell and just assume the cost basis is $570 - you'll end up paying more tax than necessary, but should not get in trouble with the IRS. \n\nDiscalimers: The above is my opinion.  I am not authorised or licensed to give any investment, tax or legal advice.
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It's a sucker's game. It means earnings per share for the next 5 years.  What company knows what's what is going to happen 3 months from now, let alone 5 years down the road?
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It is an oversophisticated way to say that the stock is now attractive. But what overweight refers to is that given the assumption that one has a diversified portfolio of stocks consisting of a certain percentage in each of the major categories such as financial, retail, manufacturing, health care, etc. They are suggesting that you should increase the percentage of your porfolio invested in that particular stock. Stupid isn't it? Why not just say buy.
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Price/Earnings Ratio - A valuation ratio of a company's current share price compared to its per-share earnings.\n\nIn general, a high P/E suggests that investors are willing to pay a higher price for a company that has not reached its earning potential.\n\nThe P/E ratio doesn't tell us the whole story by itself. It's usually more useful to compare the P/E ratios of one company to other companies in the same industry, or to the market in general, or against the company's own historical P/E. \n\nIt would not be useful for investors using the P/E ratio as a basis for their investment to compare the P/E of a technology company (high P/E) to a utility company (low P/E) as each industry has much different growth prospects.
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It's "debt/equity" ratio.  Divide the debt by the company worth to find the percentage of debt the company has.
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You can also check here.  This is free, but its only a partial list:\n\nhttp://www.earnings.com/dividend.asp?date=20060313&client=cb
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It is a class of stock that has a "preference" of some kind when it comes to dividing profits.   There are many ways it can be expressed. \n\nIt generally means that they get their dividend FIRST, whether Common gets any or not.  If there's no money for dividends that year, the question is whether it is "cumulative", meaning that if they don't pay this year, they have to make it up next year before paying Common, or "non cumulative" meaning it starts at zero each year, and also whether it is "participating", which means that if there is a LOT of dividend money, is the preferred dividend an upper limit or do they get more in flush years.
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All the above are wrong. They are describing the record date. The ex-date is the date on which the closing price of the dividend paying security has its closing price reduced by the amount of the dividend.
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Dividend income is an OPERATING ACTIVITY. Dividends PAID are a financing activity.
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I try to pick stocks that are industry leaders that for some reason are having problems at the time.  When everyone one is dumping but the stock has only a slight setback that is when to buy.  I also look to see if the company is buying back it's own stock.  This indicates that they have looked at the market and have decided there are no companies they wish to purchase or do not or can not expand their products or services.  Also if the coampany pays a consistant dividend it usually means it is fairly stable.  With dividends being taxed at a lower rate now (15%), the dividend can mean a stable company.  Again I try to find companies that are in a down cycle but are stable.  Others will choose companies that are up and coming in an industry.  The major problems with them is they are usually cash poor and if there is a major downturn in the market or their industry, they may not have the cash reserves to weather the storm...
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Dividend is reported in % say 50% dividend. It is declared on the face value of the stock. If face value of the stock is $10 then 50% dividend means that the investors get $5 per share from the company.\n\nDividend yield = 100*(Dividend/Market price)\n\nIf current market price of a share is $50 and dividend is $5 per share then dividend yield is 10%. Dividend yield depends on daily market price and fluctuates with price.
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Without any additional details, one has to assume there are at least 2 series of preferred shares, one paying 5% on par value, which may presently be yielding more or less than 5% depending on whether mkt price of pfd is less than or greater than par ... and the redeemable,  which the company can redeem at par upon a fixed date.\n\nBe careful with the latter, though.  If share is presently trading above par value and redemption date is soon or has already passed, company has right to redeem at par.  Example:  share presently @ 28,50, retraction date coming up soon.  Depending upon interest rates, co might decide to redeem at par which, in this hypothetical example, could be 25.00.  A bad trip.\n\nHow to find out?  Ask the company for details.  Full-service brokers usually have elaborate schedules of preferred shares indicating maturity, redemption, extension & retraction dates.  Unfortunately, these days, some of these schedules are not so elaborate & some leave out important dates, ie the schedule is useless.\n\nThat's why it's best to ask the company.  If all else fails, the prospectus issued at the time of the redeemable preferred share issue will spell out all these details.  You'd find it on EDGAR.  It's a slog to read, though.