Lecture Notes on Mishkin Chapter 7: Addendum
(How to Read Stock Market Tables)
Econ 353: Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions
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Reading Stock Market Tables: Illustration
From the New York Times Stock Market Data Report: Illustration
The stock market information reported below is for the Ford Motor Company taken from the New York Times (NYT) on two separate days approximately eleven years apart. For clarity, the information reported in the NYT newspaper in a single line is here broken up into two separate lines.
NYT Newspaper: 17 February 1999
52 weeks Yld Sales
Hi Lo Stock Div % PE 100s
66 1/2 35 5/8 Ford s 1.84 3.2 12 27980
(27.98M)
NYT On-Line: 11 October 2010 (3.4B Shares Outstanding)
52 weeks Yld Sales
Hi Lo Stock Div % PE (millions)
14.57 6.81 Ford No Div -- 9.1 31.5M
- 52 Weeks Hi and Lo = Highest and lowest share price achieved
by the stock over the past 52 weeks
- Stock=Stock name (s -> stock split by at least 20% over past year)
- Div = Annual cash dividend per share (in dollars)
- Yld % = Yield % = (annual cash dividend per share)/(yesterday's closing
stock price)
- PE = Price-Earnings Ratio = (Current stock price)/(Current annual
earnings per share)
- Sales (or Volume) 100s = Volume of shares traded yesterday (in 100s)
NYT Newspaper: 17 February 1999:
Hi Lo Last Change
58 11/16 56 1/2 57 7/16 - 7/16
NYT On-Line: 11 October 2010 (3.4B Shares Outstanding)
Hi Lo Last Change
13.72 13.28 13.66 +0.18
- Hi = Highest Price at which the stock traded yesterday
- Lo = Lowest Price at which the stock traded yesterday
- Last = Stock price at the final trade of the day yesterday
- Change = Difference between previous two quoted "Last" prices
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