Reading a Stock Quote
Reading a Stock Quote: Volume & Price
Arguably the two most important parts of a stock quote, volume and price should always go hand in hand. Price, while a very interesting number, provides little real information about a stock. As we saw in the P/E ratio post, the price of a stock is really only important relative to other information you can [...]
read more »Reading a Stock Quote: Yield
Yield is a term that is come across often in investing. It can refer to a plethora of things. The most noteworthy of the yield appellations is the yield curve which refers to the tracking of effective rates of interest (yields) for US Treasury bills and bonds of various lengths – short term and long [...]
read more »Reading A Stock Quote: The P/E Ratio
The Price-to-Earnings Ratio (P/E ratio for short) is, very simply, the price per share divided by earnings per share (EPS) hence P/E Ratio. Basically, what it is showing is how much investors are willing to pay for a stock per dollar of earnings. A stock with a high P/E ratio would imply that investors believe [...]
read more »Reading A Stock Quote: General Stats
In our first series of posts, we will be dealing with the most basic part of analyzing stocks – how to read a stock quote (or stock table). We will be using the quick chart on bigcharts.com as our guide for this series.
This is a basic stock quote and represents the kind of information that [...]
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