What is meant by earnings per share?
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The amount of income the company made divided by the number of shares of stock it has issued.
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the PE, or P/E, is the ratio of Price (of a share) to Earnings (per share).\n\nthe PEG is the ratio of the PE, to the forecast growth in earnings per share (EPS) over the mid-term\n\nexample:  given share, Price is 10, EPS are 1, projected EPS growth next 3 years is 5%\n\nPE or P/E=10/1=10x\n\nPEG=PE/EPSgrowth=10/5=2\n\nhope this helps
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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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A good dividend yield on a stock is about 2%. If you found a stock that pays $10/share, it would probably be about $500/share.\n\nMost companies split their stock price to keep them affordable to smaller investors. \n\nWhat you ask is a trivia question anyway, and not really important or "better" if you found one. Not a significant question or answer.
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i think you're referring to the price/earning ratio, a tool used by investors to evaluate the value of a stock.  Here's a link to Investopedia that better explains it:
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Hi,\n\nEarning momentum measures the acceleration or deceleration in the growth of operating earnings per share for the latest quarter, the previous three quarters, and an estimate for the next quarter. \n\nRather than actual quarterly earnings figures, 12-month earnings ending with each quarter are used, to eliminate seasonal fluctuations. A curve is fitted to the five earnings figures, and a second derivative is calculated to measure the curvature (acceleration or deceleration) of the curve.\n\nWhile\n\nPrice Momentum is a near-term stock price performance indicator with most performance occurring in the following month to quarter. \n\nPrice Momentum looks for companies with good twelve-month performance that have based or corrected in the last quarter and especially in the last month. \n\nRegards,\n\nRose\n\nhttp://onlineinvestmentsecurities.com
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It means total market worth.. current stock price x number of shares outstanding...
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Typically companies distribute their dividends quarterly.  Their is a date of record when the board of directors announces that the will pay a divident.  Then there is a payment date of the dividend which is usually posted with the date of record in the Wall Street Journal.  That is when the company pays its dividend.  It could be 45 days or more from the date of record.  If you have any questions about the stocks that you own you could call the investor relations people and they should give you a better idea of when and how much you should be receiving.
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Say you own a share of stock valued at $100.  If the stock splits 2 for one then you now own 2 shares valued at $50 each.\n\nIf a $100 share of stock pays a dividend of 50 cents then for each share you have the company pays you 50 cents.
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Total value is constant.\nIf you had 200 shares at $44 11/16 ($44.6875) per share then your total value is $8937.50.\nNow you have 248 shares valued at $8937.50. Your cost basis is now $8937.50/248=$36.03830645
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P/E is Price /Earnings per share. Normally the EPS is taken as last declared year or trailing 12 months EPS. Forward EPS is the projected EPS for next year. When Forward EPS is taken in calculating P/E, it is called forward P/E.
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"On Target Earnings"\n\nIt means that this is not your salary, which you will receive regardless.\n\nIt is based on a "Target" performance (normally sales), and you are paid against that performance (normally a sales commission).\nSo if you sell nothing, your pay might be nothing.
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I'm not an expert but basically you gamble between prices i.e you'll bet that the price of a company's share will rise between,say, 105 to 112 points in a day. Something along those lines my friend.
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It is actually EBITDA: Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization\n\nFrom the following link:\n\n"An indicator of a company's financial performance which is calculated as follows: \n\nEBITDA = Revenue - Expenses (excluding tax, interest, depreciation and amortization)\n\nEBITDA can be used to analyze and compare profitability between companies and industries because it eliminates the effects of financing and accounting decisions. However, this is a non-GAAP measure that allows a greater amount of discretion as to what is (and is not) included in the calculation. This also means that companies often change the items included in their EBITDA calculation from one reporting period to the next."
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Chamwen gave a pretty good explanation of buying and selling for profit. There is one other factor, which you may or may not have been asking about. Many companies pay dividends to their shareholders. If you look at a detailed stock quote (see the link below), you'll usually see a 'dividend yield' figure (under the Valuation header on this page). In this case, HPT's dividend yield is 6.3% (meaning that over the course of the past year, they have paid dividends that equal 6.3% of their share price).\n\nThese dividends can be paid out to you to provide regular income (I own HPT through Sharebuilder, and have my dividends automatically reinvested).
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Retained earnings are not considered a liability.  \n\nIn accounting, retained earnings or retained profits are profits that have not been paid to a company's shareholders as dividends.\n\nThey are reported in the ownership equity section of a firm's balance sheet. A complete presention of the companies retained earnings position is presented in the Statement of retained earnings.\n\nThe decision of whether a firm should retain profits or disburse them as dividends depends on several factors including: the firm's judgement of its own investment opportunities relative to those available in the market and any difference in tax treatment of dividends paid now and capital gains expected to result from investing.\n\nAssets = Liabilities + Retained Earnings
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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.