Am not stupid or anything, but i just want to learn how to invest and make money. please anwer these subquestion.
-$1.14 per share
-quarter
-Gross margins
-Dividend Yield
-Volume
-Market Cap
-P/E Ratio
-Open, high, low
2007-01-17 09:14:53 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
-$1.14 per share: Don't know if you mean the market price of a share or annual dividends per share or something else altogether.
-quarter: a 3 month period related to the company's fiscal year. Fiscal year is the 12 month period seleced by the company for financial reporting - can be the same as the calander year or not.
-Gross margins Total Sales less Cost of Goods Sold. This dollar amount represents the amount of money the company generated over the cost of producing its goods or services
This can also be represented as a percentage (by dividing by total sales) which represents the proportion of each dollar of revenue that the company banks as gross profit
-Dividend Yield: Annual Dividends per share divided by price per share this is a measure of the income generated by a share of stock
-Volume: Number of shares traded for that period
-Market Cap: (Market Capitalization) Share price multiplied by number of shares outstanding - this is a measure of the size of a company
-P/E Ratio: (Price/Earnings ratio) Price per share divided by Earnings per share - indicates how much an investor is willing to pay for $1 of earnings
-Open, high, low: Standard daily stock market data. Share value at market Open, High trade for the day, low trade for the day.
2007-01-17 09:44:37 · answer #1 · answered by NHMike 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want to really learn, you're going to have to do a little studying....it's not hard, it's the kind of thing that just seems hard because of all the different ways to invest, things to invest in, and terms, terms, terms, ( and you will find out that after a short while, you'll learn the terms without even trying)
Learn how to use yahoo's "finance" page by getting a quote on any one or two stocks ...the quote is today's price ( what you have to pay per share to buy it, or what you get per share if you're selling)
In the quote are some of the things you asked about:
The volume...how many shares of that stock were traded today (only important if it is exceptionally high... a lot of people interested...are they buying?( price is up.. what's up?) or are they selling?..( price is down.. something wrong?)
The open, high and low....the price at the start of the day and where it went today..
Besides the " quote" you can get a profile...or snapshot ...of the company.....which will answer a couple more of your questions:
A dividend is money returned to you by the company (no matter what the " share price" is doing) usually it is paid every three months ( a quarter)...the yield displayed tells you what percent of the cost of the stock is being paid to you....2.6%..okay, 6.5% much better, 9.9% great......( money is going into your account, and you are not "selling" any stock)...This usually only happens with very big companies...(where "market cap" comes in) Huge companies are going to ( normally) make a little money every year...steady, stable income (large caps)....one way to invest.
BUT...smaller companies ( mid/ small caps) may make bunches of money...or lose it!....so they usually don't pay any " dividends" along the way ....you either win or lose on the price of the shares..
just another way to invest.
This answer is WAY TOO LONG..but if you now understand a couple of things, you see how easy it is to " play" the market...
Read yahoo/finance and msn/moneycentral.....understand a few more things..Especially " mutual funds" and " ETF's".......you'll be ready to send a deposit to E-trade and buy just a little something!
NOTHING ACCELERATES THE LEARNING PROCESS LIKE HAVING A LITTLE MONEY RIDING ON THE OUTCOME.
(...and I mean "a little"....'til you have some small success)
2007-01-17 10:29:38 · answer #2 · answered by jebediabartlett 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
- $1.14 per share is the cost of "x" at a per share level.
A share is typically 1 piece of stock of a company, fund, whatever.
-quarter, I assume in context of quarters of the year.
There are 4 business quarters in a year. Q1/Q2/Q3/Q4
- Gross Margins, essentially how much the item is profitable after sales or earnings. Thi sis before cost of business and other weird things get taken out of earnings.
-Dividend Yield. How much in percentage points, does
the dividend pay you.
-Volume- pretty much self explanatory, but volume in context of shares is how many shares have traded by
that point in the trading day. there are other contexts
of this.
-Market Cap= a number gathered from taking all the outstanding shares, and multiply by stock price.
-P/E ratio, price to earnings ratio. Essentially a ratio
of the stock price versus its earnings.
- Open/High/Low- end of day reporting, Open equals where the stock opened/started the day at, High being the highest price of the day, and low being the inverse.
2007-01-17 09:40:59 · answer #3 · answered by jeffpa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best thing you can do is go to your local book store and get "investing for dummies" (the basic how-to books for any subject), and read it. You'll learn the answers to your question far better there than in a brief YA reply. Good luck.
2007-01-17 09:31:49 · answer #4 · answered by morlock825 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your best bet is to purchase a copy of "Investing for Dummies". It will answer most of your questions and act as a handy reference. Less than 20 bucks at your book store.
2007-01-17 14:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋