Questions tagged [stocks]
This tag is to be used for any questions related to Stocks. Ideally they should be accompanied by a country tag if relevant. It is discouraged to ask question about a specific stock. However an example can be used to illustrate a point.
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Exercising GM warrant
I have some GM WSA warrants and WSB warrants. Can someone please explain how to exercise them? I have read that they were issued with strike prices of around $10 on the WSA and $18 on the WSB, but I ...
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Is the very long-term growth of the stock market bound by aggregate net income? [closed]
When talking about residential property, people sometimes throw around the idea that over the very long-term aggregate home prices can't rise faster than aggregate income. i.e. even if for a while ...
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Where can I find a good online fundamental data provider for Hong Kong stocks? [closed]
I am thinking of investing in the Hong Kong stock market. One problem I am facing is finding a good online fundamental data provider that provides a database of financial statements for Hong Kong ...
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How to find SEC filings that are important to stock market
I want to find the most important sec filings in history, when I searched the edgar database, I find several confusions.
When I search apple's filings, 10-Q report usually comes one day after the 8-k....
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How to calculate the closing price percentage change for a stock?
When viewing a stock on Yahoo Finance:
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=ASC.L#symbol=asc.l;range=1d;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=...
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Will foreigners using a US broker to buy non-US stocks be subjected to 30% withholding tax on dividends?
Currently, foreigners are subjected to 30% withholding tax on dividends when they buy US stocks through a US broker. Will they also be subjected to the same tax if they buy international stocks (say, ...
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Does selling mixed-term stocks with a LIFO tax strategy make sense?
I have some long term stock holdings (ranging 2-4 years old). I would like to buys some more of those stocks with the intention of selling them short term (days to weeks).
Right now, the tax strategy ...
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Why are there hidden bids and offers in the US stock market for the more illiquid stocks?
I have noticed one unusual characteristic in the US market. There are hidden bids and offers in the US stock market and this affects mainly the more illiquid small-cap stocks. Say, Stock ABC has a bid ...
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Do dark pools have to declare the volume transacted at the end of the day?
While dark pools can keep their transactions secret from the public exchanges during trading hours, are they required by regulation to declare the volume transacted after the market close at the end ...
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Is there any public data available to determine an ETF's holdings?
I have some shares of an ETF, and I'm curious whether the ETF's holdings overlap with any of the individual stocks that I own.
Since it varies so frequently, I don't think this is information that ...
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Historic (CAGR) of DJIA, S&P500, NASDAQ
Looking for concrete data for a presentation I'll be giving about personal finance. I'm looking for the average market return of the three big indexes from 1950-onwards at least.
I've been able to ...
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Is a "total stock market" index fund diverse enough alone?
I'm just getting into investing (currently small amounts, to increase dramatically when I finish off my moderate interest student loans). From what I've read, index funds are the way to go, and I like ...
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What does Capital Surplus mean?
Given this information below, what does capital surplus mean? When does a capital surplus go up? What is the formula of capital surplus?
I have read Wikipedia's definition, and it only seem to ...
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Calculating a stock's price target
In the book 'Insider Buy Superstocks', he seems to be calculating price targets like this:
[last quarter EPS] x 4 x PE = price target
Does that look correct?
Is he basing PE off the current stock ...
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Why can low volume move a stock price drastically?
Over the summer on days with very low volume, there were substantial movement in the stock markets.
Why is this? Is it because there aren't enough market forces in check to really give a correct ...
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What does the average log-return value of a stock mean?
Assuming log-return is defined by the log of the price today divided by the price yesterday.
Does knowing this single piece of information (the average log-return of a stock over a long period of ...
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Questrade - What happens if I buy U.S. stock with Canadian money?
Recently, I heard that when you buy U.S. stocks with Canadian money in a Questrade account, they actually make a loan of the U.S. dollar amount you bought even if you have enough money to do the ...
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Tax ID for an international student investing in U.S stocks
I am an international student studying at Villanova University in Philadelphia, PA. I am very interested in trying my luck at the U.S stock market. However, I do not work on campus and so do not have ...
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How does it work when the same ETF is listed on several stock exchanges?
I'm trying to understand how do ETFs listed in several exchanges work.
Take VUSA, for example. It's listed in London, Zürich and Amsterdam. Same ISIN, so I assume it's exactly the same thing.
If I ...
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Stock market vs. baseball card trading analogy
I will use a baseball card trading analogy to present my question:
The baseball card trading market, like any other market, follows the laws of supply and demand. The demand for baseball cards can be ...
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If I buy a share from myself at a higher price, will that drive the price up so I can sell all my shares the higher price?
Suppose I buy 100 shares of Apple at $200 and I want to increase the share price. If I sell 1 share at $210, and at the same time log in to buy the share at $210, will the share price increase to $210 ...
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If you own 1% of a company's stock, are you entitled to 1% of its assets?
Say you own 1% of company ABC's shares. If all of a sudden there is no more demand in the stock market for company ABC's stocks, and its share price dropped down to $0, can you claim 1% of company ABC'...
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How do you calculate the P/E ratio by industry?
I would like to know how to calculate the P/E ratio by industry. On this website, it displays the P/E ratio for the current stock, the industry and the sector:
FINANCIALS
DTV.O ...
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Do retail traders get any advantage from learning methods of mathematical of finance?
There are many mathematical tools that are used in analyzing the stock market, including things like path integrals and statistical mechanics . Does the application of these tools in financial ...
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I don't live in America. How can I buy IPO stock of newly listed companies in the United States?
I'm Chinese, and I only know Firstrade, Scottrade and SogoTrade provide trading services in the Asia-Pacific region. However, they don't offer a way to buy IPO stock.
Is there any way for me to buy ...
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Stock sale cost basis calculations for 2013, now that rules changed, is FIFO or another method the smartest financially?
I was in an employee stock purchase program that auto-bought stock every two weeks at a 15% discount as part of a paycheck deduction. This was BEFORE the 2008 crash and during and after it. This ...
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How do Transfer Agents/Share Registrars get the names of beneficiary shareholders
If Transfer Agents need the names of the beneficiary share holders (e.g. for corporate actions / book closure), how do they get this data - from the stock exchange (or) Central Custodian (or) bank ...
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What does "/" and "^" mean in ticker symbols? How to translate these symbols into yahoo?
I have downloaded a complete list of all NYSE stock symbols from the NASDAQ website here. As it turns out, many of these symbols are not recognized by the yahoo finance page. In particular, there ...
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Periodicity in stock charts
Not sure if this is the right forum for this kind of question, but here goes:
I have been looking at a 3.5 year time series of several hundred DJIA stocks and notice that for many (but not all) ...
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Why would people sell a stock below the current price?
Say we have stock XYZ that costs $50 this second. The bid/ask is 49/51.
If I buy some stocks by setting a buy limit order for 47$, and it succeeds, there is a match; someone is selling the stocks ...
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What capital gains taxes do non-resident Canadian citizens owe?
I live in the Caribbean. I remain a Canadian citizen, but a few years ago I declared myself a non-resident for tax purposes. Assuming I have no income in the Caribbean, and I make $100,000 on stocks ...
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Can we estimate the impact of a large buy order on the share price?
What I am trying to understand is: If we know the number of shares a company trades and the current price of the share, can we estimate what volume of trade that is required to move the share price in ...
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Does a stock's price represent current liquidation of all shares?
For instance, if a stock is trading at 40 dollars per share, and there are one billion shares being traded, there will be a market capitalization of 40 billion dollars.
Let's say the markets are ...
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Is there an online service that provides public company information through a public API? [closed]
I want to write an application to gather financial information of public companies and bonds for my own research. Is there any place online that I can do this that has a public API?
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What is an exercise price in regards to restricted stock awards?
What does an 'exercise price' refer to in regards to a restricted stock award? I was under the impression that the exercise price was how much a stock can be bought for, but it doesn't seem to make ...
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Why do most U.S. companies pay their dividends quarterly, as opposed to annually?
U.S. companies usually pay quarterly dividends. Why do they pay them quarterly, and not once per year after the end of their fiscal year (as is usual, for example, for Swiss and German companies)?
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If I put in a limit order for the same price and size as someone else, which order goes through?
I put a limit buy order for 1000 shares at $1.26, and another investor has also put a limit buy order in for the same amount and volume. If someone sells 1000 shares at $1.26, which one of us gets the ...
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What are stock indexed funds and how do they lower taxes?
I have read the Wikipedia page but I still don't get the concept. Who maintains the "index of a specific financial market"?
For example, one index fund could invest in companies in the S&P 500, ...
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Where can I find a list of all reverse listings on European stock exchanges for a specific period? [closed]
From Wikipedia:
A reverse takeover or reverse merger (reverse IPO) is the acquisition
of a public company by a private company so that the private company
can bypass the lengthy and complex ...
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What is an "at close order" in the stock market?
Can you describe what an "at close order" stands for? In what strategy could it be used?
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Can company owners use lay offs to prevent restricted stock from vesting before an acquisition?
If the owners of a company are planning to sell it off, should employees worry about the owners laying them off to prevent the remainder of their restricted stock units from vesting?
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What are NSCC illiquid charges?
What exactly are NSCC illiquid charges? NSCC says:
Buy Side:
Open net buy quantity represents the total unsettled share amount per stock at any given time during a 3-day settlement cycle.
Open net ...
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Is it bad practice to invest in stocks that fluctuate by single points throughout the day?
It seems like a no-brainer to me:
Find a cheap stock with a good name (Dell, FB, Sony) that fluctuates by a few dollars per day
(between -$2 and +$2), and is consistent in the fluctuation throughout ...
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How does selling rights issues work in practice?
I read the article Understanding Rights Issues, but I don't understand how the selling of those rights issues works in practice.
Do you simply get call options you can sell on an options exchange? Or ...
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Specifically, what does the Google Finance average volume indicate?
From my understanding, the average volume measurement on a stock in Google Finance is over a period of 3 months. Is this the average daily volume over 3 months, or is this the average monthly volume ...
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Where can I find recent information about which major shareholders changed their positions in a given stock?
Where can I find recent information about which major shareholders changed their positions in a given stock? I know that I can find information on Yahoo Finance but Yahoo yahoo isn't quick at updating ...
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Will a stop-limit-on-quote execute in extended trading?
As an example, if I have this order: Buy 500 Shares of XYZ at Limit Price of $5.00 and Stop Price of $4.50. Duration of this order is Good until Cancelled.
Will that order execute during extended ...
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Does an industry 'standard' have any affect on when a stock might split?
I've been following Tesla for a bit and as of today it is at about 120 dollars a share. This isn't exceedingly high in general for the stock market. But it IS high for its industry. Ford is at about ...
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What's the easiest/best way to be informed of a Director selling shares of a company on London's AIM market?
I was wondering whether anyone had anything set up whereby it would 'push' information about Director's dealings on any particular company, in this case a company on London AIM market.
Is there a ...
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How are dividends for shareholders of banks paid?
Banks are different from other firms, so I am not sure how shareholders (those with equity) of banks get paid their dividends. Asset minus liabilities figure do make sense in ordinary firm cases, but ...