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If you've developed an interest in the stock market, you no doubt have a company or two in mind that you'd like to investigate. Through stock quotes, you can look up and analyze the financial health of any publicly traded company. These quotes are snapshots of the company's stock and how well it is performing on the market. To read stock quotes, you need to find the stock you want and then make sense of the symbols and abbreviations in the stock table.

Finding Your Stock

1. Determine the company's ticker symbol and stock exchange. Each company has a ticker symbol of three capital letters, assigned by the stock exchange where stock in that company is traded. While they sometimes resemble part of the company's actual name, they may be completely unrelated.

Some publications will list the company's full name alongside the letters. But for most stock tables and for tickers, you'll need to know the three-letter symbol.

If you're having a hard time finding the symbol, go to the company's website. They'll usually have it listed somewhere with other basic information about the company. You also can find out the stock exchange where that company's stock is traded.

2. Use an online financial service. There are numerous websites, both free and paid, that provide stock quotes for stocks traded on the different stock exchanges all over the world. Websites are especially valuable for international stock exchanges.

Typically you can find more detailed information about how a stock is performing through an online financial service than you would on television or in a newspaper.

3. Check the ticker. In stock market lingo, a tick is any up or down movement in the price of a stock, or the market as a whole. Financial news programs and networks have a ticker running along the top or bottom of the screen that displays this information.

Most networks color-code each entry green if the stock is trading higher than the previous day, and red if the stock is trading lower than the previous day. If the stock price remains unchanged, the entry will be white or blue.

Quotes make it to the ticker based on a number of factors, including the volume of trading in that stock and how much the price has changed. If you're following a major company or rapidly growing company, you might find information about it on the ticker.

The information on the ticker is just a brief glimpse of the stock's performance. You'll have to go to a full stock table if you want more in-depth information.

Decoding a Stock Table

1. Find the earnings per share (EPS). The EPS is a measure of the current stock price compared to the earnings for the company over the last four fiscal quarters. It is calculated by dividing the net income of the company by the number of outstanding shares. Generally, the higher this number is, the better an investment that stock is.

You might see the initials EPS followed by "(ttm)." This stands for "trailing twelve month," and simply means that the EPS was calculated using the last 12 months' figures.

2. Check the stock's volume. The volume is the number of shares traded in the most recent session (usually the last day). You also may see an average volume, which is the number of shares traded during a specific period. The length of that period varies among stock price report services.

In most cases, you want to avoid stocks with low volume. If the number is particularly low, check the average volume to see if it's higher or lower than the average.

3. Find the High/Low column or Range. This column tells you the highest and lowest price at which the stock was traded that day. It gives you an idea of how volatile the stock is. The further apart the numbers are, the more volatile the stock.

4. Find the dividend. Some stocks pay equity directly to investors in the form of dividends. Generally, dividends are a sign of a healthy company, especially if those dividends have been increasing over time.

Dividends may be paid monthly, quarterly, once a year, or twice a year. If the dividend column on the stock table is blank or has a dash, that company didn't pay dividends.

In some cases, dividends are reinvested, so each investor gets more stock instead of a cash payout.

Try to only invest in companies that have positive dividends.

Applying a Stock Quote

1. Compare price to value. The P/E ratio on the stock table can give you a good idea of whether the stock is a bargain. A relatively low P/E, typically under 15, tells you that the stock is selling more cheaply than it's worth.

Check the P/E of competing companies in the same sector. If they're all similar, that may tell you that the sector as a whole is undervalued. You may want to do some additional research to figure out why that is.

A high P/E isn't necessarily a bad thing if you're focused on long-term investments. Some stocks have a high P/E because they are expected to grow significantly within the next few years.

2. Calculate the return on equity (ROE). If you have access to a basic income statement from the company, you can use the ROE to see how efficiently the company is producing income for its shareholders. To calculate, divide the average shareholder's equity during the past 12 months by the company's net profit over the same period.

The ratio is expressed as a percentage, and can help you determine the overall profitability of owning stock in the company.

Look for companies with ROEs that have been increasing for at least the past two years.

3. Study the company's reports. All publicly-traded companies produce reports of their finances. Spending time with these reports helps you understand the financial health of the company and decide whether it is a sound investment.

In addition to looking at the company's revenue, look at the relationship between revenue and expenses. A healthy company will grow while controlling costs, so the difference between revenue and expenses, or margin, will increase over time.

Also pay attention to how much debt the company has. If the company is carrying a lot of debt, the price of its stock is likely to be more volatile.

Community Q&A

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How much should my overall portfolio composition be devoted to bonds?

It's usually recommended that you devote up to 40% of your portfolio to bonds.

How much is one share of Nike stock? How do I find this information?

Look in the financial section of any major newspaper that lists New York Stock Exchange daily prices, and look for the symbol NKE.

Do some stocks require a minimum to purchase?

Yes, they will usually give you a price that is required for purchase (or an investment quote).

How do I know what to buy and sell when reading stock quotes?

You can't know without a great deal of investing experience. If you're in a hurry, you should consult with an investment-savvy friend or relative or pay for advice from a "fee-only" financial advisor.

Why do some stockbroker companies have decimals in their stock prices that don't reflect the stock price?

Some companies decrease or increase prices based on supply, investment, or if you are investing in housing material stock. It also depends on the need of the demand and need of stock.

↑ Benjamin Packard. Financial Advisor. Expert Interview. 11 March 2020.

This article was co-authored by Benjamin Packard. Benjamin Packard is a Financial Advisor and Founder of Lula Financial based in Oakland, California. Benjamin does financial planning for people who hate financial planning. He helps his clients plan for retirement, pay down their debt and buy a house. He earned a BA in Legal Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005 and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the California State University Northridge College of Business in 2010. This article has been viewed 160,021 times.

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To read stock quotes, start by looking at the price-to-value ratio, which will be listed as "P/E ratio" on the stock table. If the number listed is under 15, it usually means that the stock is selling for cheaper than it's worth. You should also check the earnings per share (EPS) on the stock table. If the EPS is high and steadily increasing, it's a sign that the stock is valuable and a good investment. To learn how to decode all of the different columns on a stock table, scroll down!

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Investing is a way to set aside money while you are busy with life and have that money work for you so that you can fully reap the rewards of your labor in the future. Investing is a means to a happier ending. Legendary investor Warren Buffett defines investing as "... the process of laying out money now to receive more money in the future."﻿﻿ The goal of investing is to put your money to work in one or more types of investment vehicles in the hopes of growing your money over time.

Let's say that you have $1,000 set aside, and you're ready to enter the world of investing. Or maybe you only have $10 extra a week, and you'd like to get into investing. In this article, we'll walk you through getting started as an investor and show you how to maximize your returns while minimizing your costs.

Key Takeaways

What Kind of Investor Are You?

Before you commit your money, you need to answer the question, what kind of investor am I? When opening a brokerage account, an online broker like Charles Schwab or Fidelity will ask you about your investment goals and how much risk you're willing to take on.

Some investors want to take an active hand in managing their money's growth, and some prefer to "set it and forget it." More "traditional" online brokers, like the two mentioned above, allow you to invest in stocks, bonds, exchange traded funds (ETFs), index funds and mutual funds.

Online Brokers

Brokers are either full-service or discount. Full-service brokers, as the name implies, give the full range of traditional brokerage services, including financial advice for retirement, healthcare and everything related to money. They usually only deal with higher-net-worth clients, and they can charge substantial fees, including a percent of your transactions, a percent of your assets they manage, and sometimes a yearly membership fee. It's common to see minimum account sizes of $25,000 and up at full-service brokerages. Still, traditional brokers justify their high fees by giving advice detailed to your needs.

Discount brokers used to be the exception, but now they're the norm. Discount online brokers give you tools to select and place your own transactions, and many of them also offer a set-it-and-forget-it robo-advisory service too. As the space of financial services has progressed in the 21st century, online brokers have added more features including educational materials on their sites and mobile apps.

In addition, although there are a number of discount brokers with no (or very low) minimum deposit restrictions, you may be faced with other restrictions, and certain fees are charged to accounts that don't have a minimum deposit. This is something an investor should take into account if he or she wants to invest in stocks.

Robo-advisors

After the 2008 Financial Crisis, a new breed of investment advisor was born: the robo-advisor. Jon Stein and Eli Broverman of Betterment are often credited as the first in the space.﻿﻿ Their mission was to use technology to lower costs for investors and streamline investment advice.

Since Betterment launched, other robo-first companies have been founded, and established online brokers like Charles Schwab have added robo-like advisory services. According to a report by Charles Schwab, 58% of Americans say they will use some sort of robo-advice by 2025.﻿﻿ If you want an algorithm to make investment decisions for you, including tax-loss harvesting and rebalancing, a robo-advisor may be for you. And as the success of index investing has shown, if your goal is long-term wealth building, you might do better with a robo-advisor.

Investing Through Your Employer

If you're on a tight budget, try to invest just one percent of your salary into the retirement plan available to you at work. The truth is, you probably won't even miss a contribution that small.

Work-based retirement plans deduct your contributions from your paycheck before taxes are calculated, which will make the contribution even less painful. Once you're comfortable with a one percent contribution, maybe you can increase it as you get annual raises. You won't likely miss the additional contributions. If you have a 401(k) retirement account at work, you may already be investing in your future with allocations to mutual funds and even your own company's stock.

Minimums to Open an Account

Many financial institutions have minimum deposit requirements. In other words, they won't accept your account application unless you deposit a certain amount of money. Some firms won't even allow you to open an account with a sum as small as $1,000.

It pays to shop around some before deciding on where you want to open an account, and to check out our broker reviews. We list minimum deposits at the top of each review. Some firms do not require minimum deposits. Others may often lower costs, like trading fees and account management fees, if you have a balance above a certain threshold. Still, others may give a certain number of commission-free trades for opening an account.

Commissions and Fees

As economists like to say, there's no free lunch. Though recently many brokers have been racing to lower or eliminate commissions on trades, and ETFs offer index investing to everyone who can trade with a bare-bones brokerage account, all brokers have to make money from their customers one way or another.

In most cases, your broker will charge a commission every time that you trade stock, either through buying or selling. Trading fees range from the low end of $2 per trade but can be as high as $10 for some discount brokers. Some brokers charge no trade commissions at all, but they make up for it in other ways. There are no charitable organizations running brokerage services.

Depending on how often you trade, these fees can add up and affect your profitability. Investing in stocks can be very costly if you hop into and out of positions frequently, especially with a small amount of money available to invest.

Remember, a trade is an order to purchase or sell shares in one company. If you want to purchase five different stocks at the same time, this is seen as five separate trades, and you will be charged for each one.

Now, imagine that you decide to buy the stocks of those five companies with your $1,000. To do this, you will incur $50 in trading costs-assuming the fee is $10-which is equivalent to 5% of your $1,000. If you were to fully invest the $1,000, your account would be reduced to $950 after trading costs. This represents a 5% loss before your investments even have a chance to earn.

Should you sell these five stocks, you would once again incur the costs of the trades, which would be another $50. To make the round trip (buying and selling) on these five stocks would cost you $100, or 10% of your initial deposit amount of $1,000. If your investments do not earn enough to cover this, you have lost money by just entering and exiting positions.

Mutual Fund Loads (Fees)

Besides the trading fee to purchase a mutual fund, there are other cost associated with this type of investment. Mutual funds are professionally managed pools of investor funds that invest in a focused manner, such as large-cap U.S. stocks.

There are many fees an investor will incur when investing in mutual funds. One of the most important fees to consider is the management expense ratio (MER), which is charged by the management team each year, based on the number of assets in the fund. The MER ranges from 0.05% to 0.7% annually and varies depending on the type of fund. But the higher the MER, the more it impacts the fund's overall returns.

You may see a number of sales charges called loads when you buy mutual funds. Some are front-end loads, but you will also see no-load, and back-end load funds. Be sure you understand whether a fund you are considering carries a sales load prior to buying it. Check out your broker's list of no-load funds, and no-transaction-fee funds if you want to avoid these extra charges.

In terms of the beginning investor, the mutual fund fees are actually an advantage relative to the commissions on stocks. The reason for this is that the fees are the same, regardless of the amount you invest. Therefore, as long as you meet the minimum requirement to open an account, you can invest as little as $50 or $100 per month in a mutual fund. The term for this is called dollar cost averaging (DCA), and it can be a great way to start investing.

Diversify and Reduce Risks

Diversification is considered to be the only free lunch in investing. In a nutshell, by investing in a range of assets, you reduce the risk of one investment's performance severely hurting the return of your overall investment. You could think of it as financial jargon for "don't put all of your eggs in one basket."

In terms of diversification, the greatest amount of difficulty in doing this will come from investments in stocks. As mentioned earlier, the costs of investing in a large number of stocks could be detrimental to the portfolio. With a $1,000 deposit, it is nearly impossible to have a well-diversified portfolio, so be aware that you may need to invest in one or two companies (at the most) to begin with. This will increase your risk.

This is where the major benefit of mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) come into focus. Both types of securities tend to have a large number of stocks and other investments within the fund, which makes them more diversified than a single stock.

The Bottom Line

It is possible to invest if you are just starting out with a small amount of money. It's more complicated than just selecting the right investment (a feat that is difficult enough in itself) and you have to be aware of the restrictions that you face as a new investor.

You'll have to do your homework to find the minimum deposit requirements and then compare the commissions to other brokers. Chances are, you won't be able to cost-effectively buy individual stocks and still be diversified with a small amount of money. You will also need to make a choice on which broker you would like to open an account with.

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Voiceover: Let's talk a little bit about what it means to own shares or stock in a company, so shares or stock. I think we all have a general sense, but what I want to do in this video is make it a little bit more tangible to really understand exactly what you're buying when you buy a share of stock. So the general sense, and this is exactly what it really is, is when you buy stock or you buy shares, you're essentially becoming a partial or a part owner of the company. Part owner of company. Just to contrast this with bonds because they're often kind of used in the same phrasing, "Oh, I'm gonna go buy some stocks or bonds," or "I deal with stocks and bonds." Bonds. Bonds, you become part lender to the company. Part lender to the company. So, for example, if you buy a, well, I'll just say a face value bond of, let's say, it's $10. Let's say it's $1,000, and there's 1,000 people who do that. Each of you all are lending $1,000 to the company and since there's 1,000 of you, you're lending $1 million to the company. I'm not going to go into detail in that because the focus of this is going to be stock, but it's good to keep in mind that they're very different things. Here, you're owning the company. Here, you're lending to the company. So just to make this a little bit more tangible of exactly what we're owning, let me draw a simple balance sheet for some company X. So this is Company ... Let me do a new color. Let's say we're dealing with Company X right here, and let's say if we looked at Company X's assets, and when we talk about assets, it really is the same thing that we mean in the real world, or in our everyday life when we talk about assets. The things that have value. Things that are going to give us some type of future benefit. A house is an asset because it gives us the future benefit of being able to live in it and protecting us from cold weather and rain. Cars are assets because they give, provide us some transportation. Cash is an asset because it can be exchanged for things we need in the future. All of these ... A loan to someone else is an asset because in the future, they will pay us back. A loan to me is a liability, which we'll talk about in a second, but anyway, let's just in the very abstract sense, say this is Company X's assets. Let's say that they're worth $100 million. $100 million, and I'm not going to go into exactly how this number is determined or who's determining it, or who's saying this is 100 million, but let's just say this is, we agree that this is how much their land and their patents and their copyrights and their cash and their buildings and everything else they have is worth. All of the things that will generate future value. Now, let's say that Company X has also borrowed some money, and maybe they borrowed it by issuing bonds, which I will not go into detail on. Let's say they borrowed some money, and so they owe some people collectively $80 million. $80 million. This could have been a straight debt from a bank, or this could have been via a bond issue. They might have issued, maybe they issued a million bonds, where each of those essentially represent a debt of $80. I won't go into that too much, but I think you get the idea of what I mean of part lender, but this is debt. $80 million of debt right here. Let's say that's all of their liabilities. There are other liabilities other than debt, but for simplicity, let's say that's their only liability and debt tends to be the biggest. Now, what's left for the owners? A good way to think about that is what would happen if this company were sold and the debt paid off. So, if the company were sold and these assets really are able to be sold for $100 million, you get $100 million. You'd have to pay the debt holders, you'd have to pay off the debt first, so you'd have 100 minus 80, you'd have $20 million left for the owners. I'll do that in this other green color. So you'd have $20 million left. $20 million left, and this is called the equity, or the owner's equity. Owner's equity. This is completely the same idea as when people talk about having equity in a house. If I have a $300,000 house, and I still have $200,000 left on the mortgage, then I have $100,000 in equity. It's completely analogous. You can see, very simply, that assets. I'll write this down. You're getting a little bit of an introduction to accounting right here, but assets are going to always be equal to liabilities plus equity. Because essentially, or you can view it this way: If you subtract liabilities from both sides, assets minus liabilities is equal to equity. This might be a little bit more intuitive. What we have leftover is always what we own minus what we owe. That is what the owners have. Now, when we say that I'm part-owner of a company, that means that I have a piece of this pie right here. This is what I am a part-owner of, the equity. So, for example, if we have, if there are 2 million shares, so Company X, let's say they have 2 million shares, and let's say that the equity is really worth $20 million. How much is each share worth if we believe all of these numbers? Well, we have $20 million of equity, 20 million of equity divided by 2 million shares, divided by 2 million shares, which gets us $10 of equity per share. If we believe all of these numbers, and we know that Company X has 2 million shares, then we would say that each share is worth $10, and if we like these numbers and if someone is willing to sell us a share for less than that, we would buy it. If someone was willing to pay more than that, maybe we would sell it. Just to make all of this a little bit more tangible, let's look at an actual example of a company to show you that I'm not making all of this stuff up. I got this off of your traditional financial sources. This is actually from the filings of this unnamed company, and you'll get extra bonus points if you figure out what this company is, and this is their actual stock-trading activity, and I just want to draw the same diagram that I drew up here, the same diagram that I drew up here, to really, on this company, so you can kind of see that this actually happens in the real world, so first let's draw their assets. Let's say this is Company X, and let's say these are its assets right there. Its assets. Let's go to its balance sheet. This is actually what they reported. This is June 30th, well, we want to take the more recent date. They're just trying to compare to what they had before. Let's look at these, this is some time ago, but it doesn't matter. We're learning. This is, we're not trying to decide whether we want to invest in this right now. This is a very old financial statement, but let's just look at what they're saying. They have our total assets here. 30 million, I'll just do in round numbers. $30 million right there, so $30 million. You might be curious about, "Hey, what's all this current asset business?" Those are things that are either cash or that can be turned into cash within the next year. So, for example, accounts receivable. That's money that other maybe vendors owe them, that they're going to pay very soon. Inventories, these are things that they have maybe in the warehouse that they can sell and turn into cash very quickly. Other current assets, maybe that's stock or some other type of investment that they could sell and turn into cash. So they have 18 million of current assets, that's things that they can turn into cash very easily and very quickly, definitely within the next year. Then you have some property, plant and equipment. this is kind of that land and buildings and machinery that I talked about, and then who knows what these other assets are. Maybe those are trademarks or patents, or who knows what they are? But all in all, they have $30 million of assets. Now let's go to the liabilities. They have some current liabilities, 16 million. Current liabilities, just so you know, those are liabilities. These are things that they have to pay in cash within the next year. It could be debt, it could be payables. They have to pay some other vendors. Who knows what it is? But you can kind of view it as debt on some level, maybe debt that you have to pay in the next year. Then the have long-term debt of 5.5 million. If you add these two up, you get pretty close to about 22 million, so just for simplicity, I'll put it over here as 22 million. So this company has 22 million in liabilities. 22 million liabilities. These are their assets, just to get all the labeling right. So what's left for equity? We'll just draw it on this simple diagram. We have 8 million left for equity. 8 million left for equity, and actually, they did the calculation here for us. The exact number is 8.39 or 8.4 million in equity, but this is a nice round number for us to show. This is real-world stuff that we're dealing with, and if you wanted to know, kind of, if you believe these numbers, if you believe that this company's assets really are worth $30 million, what should you pay for it? Well, then you're going to divide by the total number of shares, and you'll see this in some financial statements, and I won't go into the details of the difference between basic and diluted, but the numbers are very, very close, so we don't have to worry about it too much. But let's just say that this company has 2.7, looks like 2.78 million shares. So if the book value is 8.396. I mean, I wrote 8 here, how much should each of these shares, how much should each of these, and when I say book value, I mean these are their books. According to their books, the equity is worth 8.4 million. If we really believe that the equity's worth 8.4 million, how much should each share be worth? Well, we'll just divide 8.4 million, we'll just have to divide 8.4 million, 8.4 million. This is actually an 8.4. I wrote 8 there for simpicity. Divided by the number of shares, 2.78 million. So that's a million, and that's a million, and I'll get a calculator out for this one right here. So, let's see, we're here doing 8.4 million divided by 2.78 million shares. So according, if we believe these numbers, if we believe the books, the book value of the shares is about $3.02 per share, so this is $3.02 per share, book value per share. That's what we should be willing to pay for this, or what we think a fair price per share of this company is if we think these assets are really worth $30 million. Now, what are people actually paying for these shares? Well, that's, we look at this information right here, and we see that the last trade here was for $2.58, so people are paying a discount to the number we just calculated, so the only reason why people are paying less than that, or someone's willing to sell for less than $3, is that someone out there, especially the person selling, thinks that this company really, the assets of this company really aren't worth $30 million. He or she thinks of the assets of this company are worth less than $30 million, and maybe they think that the company's prospects aren't as good. They're product isn't, the sales are going to go down. Who knows? Maybe the person buying it, maybe they think it is worth $3 a share, and that's why they're willing to pay $2.58 for it because they think it's going to go up. Just so that we get some of the other details that we see here, this bid, this bid right here. This is what someone has explicitly said that they're willing to pay for a share. The ask is what someone has explicitly said they're willing to sell a share for. This 52-week range is the range of prices that the shares have sold, so in the past year, these shares sold for as low as $1.20, and that was actually a great deal because they went up, even now, where they're selling at $2.58. the average volume right here, this is the number of shares sold per day, exchanged per day. The market cap, right here, you've probably heard that word before. That's essentially the market's sense of what this number really is. We're saying that the books of this company are saying this company is worth $8 million, but the market cap is saying what the equity of the company is worth in the market's mind, and to get that number, they're taking the $2.58. they're taking the $2.58 times the number of shares. Times the 2.78 million shares. If we do that, we're going to get, let's see, 2.58 times 2.78 is equal to exactly, well, it's a little different than what they had. Maybe it's a little round-off error, but roughly 7 million in market cap. Like I said before, the market is not paying $3. It's paying $2.58, and so the market is saying that the equity, this piece right here is closer to 7 million, even though the books are saying that this number right here is above 8 million. Well, anyway, hopefully that was a little bit useful and gives you a little bit of a sense of what it actually means to buy shares in a company.

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Morningstar is an investment research company offering mutual fund, ETF, and stock analysis, ratings, and data, and portfolio tools. Discover actionable insights today.

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Check out the 52 week high stocks not the lows...don't want you to catch a falling knife...ouch!

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Barchart.com | Commodity, Stock, and Currency Quotes, Charts, News & Analysis

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Barchart.com is the leading provider of intraday stock and commodities real-time or delayed charts with powerful indicators and technical analysis.

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CBS Market Watch
check out the latest news to see what is going on in the market!

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MarketWatch: Stock Market News - Financial News

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MarketWatch provides the latest stock market, financial and business news. Get stock market quotes, personal finance advice, company news and more.