The Company Profile tabbed page contains data and details of recent market activity for the stock, as well as fundamental data relating to its reported financial condition.
The stock's price data is also graphically displayed in the Stock Investor Analysis template on the right:
A link to current News Headlines is also included in the lower left corner.
Click on a region in the above graphic to go to its explanation below.
The company's full name is displayed in the uppermost text box and below it is recent market data for the stock:
The Quote Details table includes price data for the current (or most recent) trading session including Open, High, Low and Last (Close) prices together with trading statistics such as the value and percentage Change for the session.
The price Range for the session and Volume is also display.
The primary Exchange that the stock is traded on is also displayed.
Both actual fundamental data and Stock Investor's own Rank assigned to the stock are displayed in the Fundamentals table:
The bar displays Stock Investor Rank in an easily recognizable manner, and the actual value is displayed to the right.
The higher the number, the more attractive the stock. The maximum is 10, the minimum zero.
The following fundamental data is displayed for each stock:
Calculated by multiplying the number of issued common stock by the current price, it represents the market value of the company's equity capital.
Net Income is a company's total earnings (or profit).
Net income is calculated as a company's total revenues less the cost of doing business, depreciation, interest, taxes and other expenses.
Net Income is often referred to as "the bottom line" since net income is listed at the bottom of the income statement.
The measure is used to calculate Earnings Per Share, see below.
The Operating Margin ratio is an indication of company's operating efficiency and overall performance..
Calculated as Operating Income divided by Net Sales.
Operating Income is the profit realized from a business's own operations, but excluding operating expenses (such as cost of goods sold) and depreciation from gross income.
The result is expressed as a percentage represented the proportion of a company's revenue that is left over after paying for variable costs of production such as wages, raw materials, etc. The Operating Margin is often used to give a percentage amount of how much a company makes (before interest and taxes) on each dollar of sales. For example, if a company has an operating margin of 15%, this means that it makes $0.15 (before interest and taxes) for every dollar of sales.
Operating Margin is also known as "operating profit margin" or "net profit margin".
Beta us the measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole, it is also referred to as the "beta coefficient".
Beta is calculated using regression analysis of the tendency of a security's price to move with the market. A beta less than 1 means that the security will be less volatile than the market. A beta greater than 1 indicates that the security's price will be more volatile than the market. For example, a stock's with a beta of 1.2 is theoretically 20% more volatile than the market.
Companies in different sectors often share similar Beta values. For instance, many utilities stocks have a beta of less than 1 while most technology oriented stocks have a beta greater than 1, reflecting the sentiment that they offer the possibility of a higher rate of return but are more risky.
EPS serves as a key indicator of a company's profitability.
Calculated as Net Income (less Dividends on Preferred Stock) divided by Average Outstanding Shares, it represents the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock.
Earnings Per Share is an important variable in determining a share's price and it is a major component of the Price-to-Earnings (PE) ratio, see below.
Return on Equity is a measure of a corporation's profitability, specifically how much profit a company generates with the equity invested by shareholders.
ROE is calculated as Net Income divided by Shareholder's Equity
The ROE is useful for comparing the profitability of a company to that of other firms in the same industry.
Dividend Yield
The Dividend Yield ratio shows how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
It is calculated as annual Dividends per Share divided by Price per Share.
In the absence of any capital gains, the dividend yield is the return on investment for a stock.
Price to Earnings (PE)
The Price-to-Earnings (PE) ratio is a valuation ratio of a company's current share price compared to its per-share earnings.
It is calculated by dividing the current Market Value per Share (current stock price) by the Earnings Per Share figure, see above.
The P/E is sometimes referred to as the "multiple", because it shows how much investors are willing to pay per dollar of earnings.
Debt
Total Debt represents the sum of long and short term debt including all interest bearing agreements or instruments and capitalized lease obligations.
Shares Outstanding
The number of stock issued and tradable in the marketplace.
These news
headlines are provided by Thomson Financial's
NewsEdge service.
Thomson Financial is a respected supplier of financial information and its NewsEdge content is assembled from a worldwide selection of media sources.
For more information on the news content, and how to view the full articles for each headline, go to the News Headlines topic
The price chart for the stock is displayed using Stock Investor's technical analysis template.
The template uses a daily candlestick chart together with four chart indicators to analyze the price movements of each company.
The template also includes Red and Green arrow signals. These arrows and their corresponding vertical lines connecting them, are trade signals generated by the three indicators on the work page: Moving Average- Exponential superimposed on the price chart, and the MACD and Stochastic indicators in their separate plots immediately below the price chart.
The chart display is the same as for the Technical work page where users have more control over the actual display of the chart.
For more information on Stock Investor's market price analysis template and how to use it, refer to the Stock Investor Technical Work Page help topic.
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