can anyone define following stock terms?
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bid  The last price offered to buy a stock\nask  The last price offered to sell a stock\n1y target est  Analysts' estimates of the stock price in 1 year\np/e (ttm)  The price of the stock divided by the current earnings per share\nEPS(ttm)  The current earnings per share\nDiv & Yied  The dollar amount of the regular dividend, and the corresponding percentage yield (ratio of dividend to stock price)\nMarket cap  The market capitalization, which is the total values of all the outstanding stock in this company.
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US - Amex-NASDAQ, NYSE\nCanada - Toronto\nLondon - LSE\nParis (and 3 other European countries) - EuroNext\nMoscow - MTS (I don't know whether any foreign stocks a listed there)
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Stocks are a share in a company.\nThe stock market is where those shares are sold.
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Net Asset Value\n\nThe total market value at the close of each market day \ndividied by\n# of shares outstanding
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Sorry but i have not heard of these. May i give you my guess.\n\nDirect shares: the investor is a stakeholder of the company; equity holder\n\nIndirect shares: probably means debentures and bonds. U still invest but in a passive manner.\n\n\nIf u feel that i am wrong, try loking up in the "How stuff Works" website
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You can issue:\n1.Stock that has 10 voting right.\n2.Stock that has 1 voting right.\n3.Stock that has no voting right.\nYou give others the 1 voting right or no voting right stocks while you keep the 10 voting right stocks. \nGoogle does it.
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My understaning is that this term refers to 3 groups of people:\n\n1) The stakeholders (investors)\n2) The actuators (those involved in advising, brokering and secureing the transactions.)\n3) The receiving (the companies, funds etc; you are investing in)
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It can mean many different things.\nI guess it means\nBenefits Purchase Options.\nThis is sort of a retirement plan offered to current employess according to which they can buy shares, share options etc at discounted rates.
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Stock is the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity); "he owns a controlling share of the company's stock" \n\nStock exchange is ther ordered marketplace where brokers and dealers meet to buy and sell stocks of publicly traded companies on behalf of investors. Major US stock exchanges include the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the NASD and the American Stock Exchange. The NYSE is where most of the largest, most actively traded companies in the United States are listed. Many countries have stock exchanges where shares of companies in that country are traded.
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Stock change is the difference between 2 prices.  The first price is usually the last price of the previous day or the first price of the current day.  The second price is the last price paid for the stock.  Subtract the first price from the second price to find the stock change.  Don't forget that your stock prices may be delayed depending on where you are getting your numbers.\n\nVolume: The number of shares or contracts traded in a security or an entire market during a given period of time. It is simply the amount of shares that trade hands from sellers to buyers as a measure of activity. If a buyer of a stock purchases 100 shares from a seller then the volume for that period increases by 100 shares based on that transaction.
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Fastest growing stock or fastest growing company?\n\nStocks don't "grow." They increase or decrease in price.\n\nLook at the charts in Investors Business Daily.
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You said it,,Crash or Bust:)\n\nCrash is most common term.\n\n"Bottomed Out" more refers to Technical Support,,\nor Seasonal/Cyclical bottom(low side of the price charts' wave)\n\nEver look at a Long Term Chart on Dow Jones Industrial Averages,,Nasdaq Composite,Standard & Poor 500 Index?\n\nAnd see The "Crashes" everyone moans about?\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=my&s=%5EDJI&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=%5Eixic+%5EGSPC\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=my&s=%5EDJI&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=my&l=on&z=m&q=l&p=&a=&c=&s=%5Eixic\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=my&l=on&z=m&q=l&p=&a=&c=&s=%5Espx\n\n...................................\nThe Top Line is Price/Valuation as an Average.\nThe Lower one is Share Volume/Activity,,,how many shares trade each day\n\nYou can see the beginning of Hi-Tech,\nand The Internet,\nand Online Trading.\n\nOne interesting thing to note is after the Correction,,\n"CRASH" \nof 2002  how the Trading Volume maintained the Volume Levels that grew over the previous decade.\n\nAlso interesting to place a straight-edge from beginning low point,,,to Current level.
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Whatever it says it means! (LOL) Read the axes of the graph. It could be price against time, maybe?
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It does not look like this is a publicly traded stock.  I just did a symbol lookup on http://finance.yahoo.com and came up with nothing -- is the spelling correct?\n\nIf this is a privately held company then the only time your wife will make money is if the company goes public or they get sold.
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Love to assist.... but your question is not specific enough.\n(US Stock Market, Great Britain Stock Market, Japan Stock Market, FOREX Market, Commodities Market (and which commodity?), etc.....
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I think you can just go to YahooFinance and find prices for the history of a stock.  Good luck.
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there are many stock web sites to check out.  try the links below.