how share price changes?
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Share price is something like aunction, It change because someone think it is good price to sell but in the meantime other think it is good time to buy.\n\nfor example, Share XYZ is $10 now.  A is holding it, he think it is worth to sell on $11 so he queue, then B think XYZ company worth to invest so he buy at $11, so the price of XYZ change to $11.\n\nWhen the market crush. B afraid the price will keep dropping. so he quickly sell it at $9 although he lose money.  then C think at $9 is worth to buy because the market may rebound soon. so the price will fall to $9.\n\nWant to chat more about it? email me at tklynx@hotmail.com
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If you had 100 shares in XYZ company and they were selling for $100 per share, you would then have 200 shares selling at $50 per share if it were a 2 for 1 split.  Total value is not impacted but price per share is.
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It all relates to the P/E or the Price to Earnings ratio. It measures how much revenue or profit one share earns and compares that to the price you would pay for that one share on that open market.\n\nWhat you or your banker are talking about can be dangerous because you could be paying a lot of money for a share that does not have a lot or any income behind it at all so you would be in danger of losing your investement. This happened a lot in the dot come bust where sahres worth $500 or more were issued and bought for companies that weren't even making $.01 per share.
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Your question is not clear any way I will try to tell you some thing.\n\nExample:\nIf you have purchased 200 share of face value of Rs.10/- paid @ Rs.596 per share on 1.1.2006 and if the share were splited to Rs.1/- paid on 1.6.2006, then your 200 shares will become 2000 shares on 1.6.2006 and the value of each share will become Rs.596/10= Rs.59.60 per share.  The date of purchase will remain same for all shares 1.1.2006 and not 1.6.2006. The date of actual purchase of 200 shares will apply for all 2000 shares.  O.K ????????
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Ordinary shares are a stake in a company and as such are a proportional value of the company.\n\nThe hope is that the value will go up as the value of the company increases, and often this is the case, and it can be a lot of increase, however the downside can be that if the company does not do well then the value can crash, to the point where there is no value.\n\nYou can also expect to receive a dividend from the company on at least an annual basis, this is a share of the profit the company has made in the year.\n\nShares have to be viewed as a risky investment in general
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when a company grows too big and need additional money to expand. the company will have to sell part of the companies for more money to expand. in order to sell parts or all of the company they have to estimate the worth of the company and further  break down into unit of share. each share worth is determine by a complicated series of accounting and estimates.once a price is determine, the company will have a initial public offering (known as IPO) in the stock market. after that the worth of each share determine by the demand and supply in the public. of course the annual report and estimate how the company will do yearly affect the pricing of the shares. a lot has to do with speculations or rumors....
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The stock market is simply a meeting place of buyers and sellers.\n\nThe price at which stocks are sold is simply where they agree on the value of that stock.\n\nIf there are an equal number of buyers and sellers with an equal proportion of sentiment then the price will never change.\n\nWhen a stock price changes it's because there is an oversupply of buyers or sellers.\n\nSo in the case of a stock price dropping, more people want to sell than buy and therefore the price is pushed down by those sellers until it reaches a new equilibrium.\n\nThe cause of people selling is varied.  Some people sell because of a bad newspaper article.  Some people sell because they want to buy a new car.  Some mutual funds sell because of a reweighting of their portfolio.  Some traders sell because a particular level has been reached.  Some people sell because of change in the fundamentals of the company (sales, profits, market competition etc.).  There's probably another 100 reasons that could be added here.\n\nOne thing about the market is that it's like a herd and often movements cause more movements in the same direction.\n\nCheers,\nRichard.
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Share prices means price at which a co's stock is quoting at..\n\nyes the media can influence share prices in the sense that it can break some news which is specific to that co or industry..as market players tend to notice that news they may accordingly buy or sell the co's stock..\n\nDemand and Supply beyond many other factors have a bearing on the share prices..other factors include..liquidity, sentiments, market rumors, etc..\n\nWhat happens when a share price falls is it gets cheaper to buy! ..also it loses its market-capitalization..\n\nthat was enough explanation..
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Yahoo haven't dealt with a market ticker change particularly well.   They seem to have maintained a page for the ticker NGT.L ; when it's actually NG.L  (or NG-.L on some sites) you're after.\n\nhttp://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NG.L&m=L&d=  is what you want and the price seems accurate there. \n\nOr try Interactive Investor instead, it's much better:-\nhttp://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:NG-.L&it=le
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The price the stock is at the end of the day.\nExample\nOpening price (begining of the day) for BAC on 11/2/2006 was 53.36\nClosing price (end of the day) for BAC on 11/2/2006 was 53.55\nA 19 cent increase, or .35%
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if all other changes are ignored, then the split of a stock will have ZERO affect on the value or the number of shares you own in the ETF.  A simple example, if it is a 2 for 1 split, then the number of shares of the company will double and (theoretically) the price will at the same time go to exactly one half of the pre-split price.\n\nps--just ignore what dehygrate is saying.  he's answering a different question!
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generally speaking, yes, when a company's profits increase, the stock price goes up. \n\nwhen you own a stock, you own a share of that company, and thus you own a portion of those profits. this is known as EPS, or earnings per share. so if the company earns more, your share of those earnings is worth more. conversely, if a company makes less, then the shares are worth less.\n\nhowever the relationship is a bit more complicated in practice. what makes the market frustrating yet beautiful at the same time is that human emotion is involved. you have analysts and ceo's making predictions as to how much the company will earn. often these predictions are overblown, so if the company does well, but not quite as well as the liberal predictions, then you have a lot of people overreacting to the news and perhaps selling the stock, driving its price down. this is often a great time to buy, because there are no fundamental problems with the company, and yet there is an artificial depression in the price. after a few weeks or months, people will forget about the predictions and see that the company is healthy and going strong, and the price will rise to a normal level again.\n\nyou also have situations when earnings will be very high, even outdoing expectations, but the company will issue a negative future outlook, so investors will get scared and sell, even though the earnings for that quarter or year were great.\n\nalso as you noted, sometimes investors will sell after a long run-up, taking their profits. this causes a small drop in share price. this can also be seen as a natural market correction to a stock price that has gone up faster than a company's performance, and falls back into line.\n\nthen there are completely unrelated situations like 9/11, the war in iraq, hurricane katrina, etc, that may have little or no direct impact on the company and its earnings, but drive the market lower or higher. look at how market prices reacted after 9/11 (huge drop). or after the US went to war in iraq (steady rise).\n\nover the long run, I would argue that markets are efficient, meaning that if a company is profitable and does well, the stock price will rise, and if it does poorly, the stock will will fall.\n\nover the short term, prices are impacted by the things I noted above, as well as others, that have little to do with a company's long-term performance. these irregularities in price should be seen as possible buy opportunities, if you feel the stock has become undervalued. it is these inefficiencies in the market that allow an intelligent investor to reap big profits.
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I can't answer this specifically for those companies, but what generally happens is that your stock is converted to stock in the new company, at a rate specified by the takeover company. (1 share in the new company for every 2 shares owned in the target company, for example)  You should receive a letter soon, explaining what has happened.
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In the stock market.\n\nVolume rate of change.\nPrice rate of change.\n\nBoth very good indicators of coming change to a stock.
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The stock price has more to do with expectations than the actual earnings number.  \n\nIf the company beats earnings expectations but misses on revenue of some other metric, the stock price will often suffer.  If the stock price has run up prior to earnings, the earnings report will often trigger selling (and a drop in price) no matter what the news.  \nIf the company makes optimistic statements about coming quarters or raises guidance, the stock price will often go up even if the earnings disappoint.
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Dividends are determined each quarter by the board of directors and will likely be the same approximate percentage of the stock price. (So yes, they will split also, although that is not technically correct).
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When new shares are issued by a company, can be either dilutionary (ie the value of the existing shares go down) or of negligible impact.\n\nFor example, new shares are issued during a stock split.\n\nLet's take a ficticious company that has 10 shares each valued at $1.  The company is valued at $10.\n\nThey have a two-for-one stock split, so there are now 20 shares.  The company is still valued at $10.  So each share is now worth $0.50.  This is dilutionary.\n\nLet's say the same company with 10 shares of $1 each issues 5 new shares for $1 each.  The company now has an additional $5 worth of capital to use in the business.  Notionally, this means that they are now worth at least $15.  There are a total of 15 shares on issue, so each share is now worth $1 each.   So, there is no dilutionary effect.\n\nNow, if that company had issued new shares at a price LOWER than $1 each (eg. $0.80) then there would be a dilutionary effect.\n\nNow that's all the theory.  What happens in practice is up to the market to decide.\n\nCheers,\nRichard.