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Up until a couple of years ago, the best source of stock quotations was the business section of a daily newspaper, such as The Wall Street Journal. One problem with newspapers, however, is that they are only printed once a day. Now it is possible to get quotes all during the day from a wide variety of Internet sources.19 One of the best is Yahoo!, and Figure 5-8 shows a detailed quote for Abbott Labs. As the first row of the quote shows, Abbott Labs is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ABT. The first row also provides links to additional information. The second row starts with the price of the last trade. For Abbott Labs, this was 4:03 P.M. on October 31, 2001, at a price of $52.98. Note that the price is reported in decimals rather than fractions, reflecting a recent change in trading conventions. The second row also reports the closing price from the previous day ($53.78) and the change from the previous
closing price to the current price. For Abbott Labs, the price fell by $0.80, which was a 1.49 percent decline. The trading volume during the day was 3,478,100 shares of stock. In other words, almost 3.5 million shares of Abbott Labs’ stock changed hands. Immediately below the daily volume is the average daily volume for the past three months. For Abbott Labs, this was 3.1 million shares, which means that trading on October 31 was a little heavier than usual.
The last item in the second row shows that Abbott Labs is scheduled to pay a dividend on November 15. As shown on the last row, the annual dividend is $0.84 per share, so the quarterly dividend payment will be $0.21 per share. The third row shows an ex-dividend date of October 11, meaning that the owner of the stock as of October 10 will receive the dividend, no matter who owns the stock on November 15. In other words, the stock trades without the dividend as of October 11. The last row also reports a div idend yield of 1.56 percent, which is the dividend divided by the stock price. Read the rest of this entry »

Our discussion thus far has focused on expected stock prices and expected rates of return. Anyone who has ever invested in the stock market knows that there can be, and there generally are, large differences between expected and realized prices and returns. Figure 5-5 shows how the market value of a portfolio of stocks has moved in recent years, and Figure 5-6 shows how total realized returns on the portfolio have varied from year to year. The market trend has been strongly up, but it has gone up in some years and down in others, and the stocks of individual companies have likewise gone up and always succeed. In subsequent Read the rest of this entry »

A body of theory called the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) holds (1) that stocks are always in equilibrium and (2) that it is impossible for an investor to consistently “beat the market.” Essentially, those who believe in the EMH note that there are 100,000 or so full-time, highly trained, professional analysts and traders operating in the market, while there are fewer than 3,000 major stocks. Therefore, if each analystfollowed 30 stocks (which is about right, as analysts tend to specialize in the stocks in a specific Read the rest of this entry »

Stock prices are not constant—they undergo violent changes at times. For example, on September 17, 2001, the first day of trading after the terrorist attacks of September 11, the Dow Jones average dropped 685 points. This was the largest decline ever in the Dow, but not the largest percentage loss, which was 22.6 percent on October 19, 1987. The Dow has also had some spectacular increases. In fact, its fifth largest increase was 368 points on September 24, 2001, shortly after its largest-ever decline. The Dow’s largest Read the rest of this entry »

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Another method of stock valuation is market multiple analysis, which applies a market-determined multiple to net income, earnings per share, sales, book value, or, for businesses such as cable TV or cellular telephone systems, the number of subscribers. While the discounted dividend method applies valuation concepts in a precise manner, focusing on expected cash flows, market multiple analysis is more judgmental.To illustrate the concept, suppose that a company’s forecasted earnings per share is $7.70 in Read the rest of this entry »

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