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How To Read Stocks With These Simple Tips |
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Carlie Eviee |
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How To Read Stocks With These Simple Tips
Carlie Eviee
Reading the stock tables in the newspaper can be very confusing when you're just learning about the stock market. It's important to learn how to read stocks, though, and it won't take a lot of time.
Let's look closer at the table. You'll notice that there are twelve columns in the table; each stock has a line of its own. Let's examine the first two columns, which are usually named something like "52W High" and 52W Low." These tell you about the stock's performance over the last year. The names are pretty suggestive; "52W High" reveals the highest value the stock has reach in the past 52 weeks. Its lowest value shows up in the "52W Low."
The column after that you will discover the name of the stock and then the ticker symbol for that stock. You will probably recognize some of these from the tickers that run across the bottom of the screen sometimes on the cable news networks.
Speaking of TV, you might want to watch the financial shows. They can give you a lot of help and information that will show you how to read stocks and understand the stock market even better.
There's another column next to the ticker column, and it's labeled "Div." This column shows you the annual dividend the stock pays out for each share. If you see a blank space in this column, that means the stock doesn't pay dividends right now. The same rule also applies to the very next column, "Yield %", the percentage return on the dividend.
P/E is the price to earnings ratio. Dividing the current stock price by earnings per share for the last four quarters gives you this number.
The next two columns are "High" and "Low." In the day's trading, you'll be able to see the highest and lowest points that the stock has reached. "Close" is the point at which the stock closed that day, and "Net Change" shows the change from the day before.
You'll be able to move on and learn even more about the stock market once you have a basic understanding of how to read stocks.
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Article Source: http://www.statssheet.com/articles/article65441.html |
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