But try to price any asset these days--whether a house, a car, a share of stock or a sports team, and you'll find that the recession has negatively impacted its value.
But buying farmland is, obviously, much more difficult than buying a share of stock.
Likewise, the company reported profits for the quarter of 52 cents a share excluding stock-based compensation expense, above the Street at 46 cents.
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Profits were a penny a share, below the Street at 6 cents, although the company noted that the latest quarter included five cents a share in stock-based compensation expense.
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But sometimes there's a wide spread--and in a volatile stock, a difference of a nickel a share off the consensus forecast can mean a big swing in a stock price when earnings come out.
Trading in France at 159 euros a share, the stock is worth 250 euros, according to Marcus, based on a sum-of -the-parts valuation of its underlying businesses.
To make short-selling faster, there are rules that say all traders need do is "locate" a share of the stock they want to short, meaning they find someone to say they have the shares to lend out to them.
Shareholders of Wendy's will receive 4.25 shares of Triarc Class A stock for each share of Wendy's stock they own.
The founder-entrepreneur purchases his stock for a penny a share and the VC general partner is allocated a percentage of the stock (if the VC firm is profitable) without paying extra for it.
The company listed the world's first global share, a stock that is equally at home in New York or Frankfurt.
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Although central banks hold a small share of the stock of America's external liabilities, they have become big marginal buyers.
In addition, he might want to spread out the gifts over many years, or donate an amount smaller than a single share of his stock.
There's no denying this: Tracking what you paid for each share of a stock or mutual fund--so you can calculate your taxable gain when you sell--is so tedious that a lot of folks just guess.
The earnings per share figure was up just 13% when excluding the impact of a preferred stock redemption, while earnings from continuing operations were 33 cents per share, a 43% pickup from a year ago.
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During the 2008 investor conference, sponsored by Sandler O'Neill, Mr. Greifeld crowed to a group that included Mr. Niederauer that Nasdaq's market share in stock trading was climbing, while a key gauge of the NYSE's clout had slipped below 28%.
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Analysts were looking for profit of a smaller 4 cents per share amid the struggling housing sector, giving the stock a boost.
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Normally, a trader looking to sell a stock short must borrow or at least identify a share to borrow before making the sale trade.
This is a key difference: caution about a company leading to a lack of demand and a falling share price is one thing, but pressure being placed on a stock by those who think it is set to fall further can represent a real problem for its future.
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Judging a team by its ratio of runs scored to runs allowed and seeing how that compares to its real world wins is a bit like judging a stock by its fundamentals and comparing those numbers to its share price.
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What they all have in common though is that we as basic investors can go and buy the stock or share on a market.
MBIA, however, paid investors back by eliminating its 34-cent-a-share quarterly dividend shortly after the stock market closed for the day, according to TradeTheNews.com.
It was recovering from bankruptcy and stock was just 96 cents a share.
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In Japan, Goldman has taken a 43% share of Tokyo's electronic stock-options market by attaching Hull's complex pricing models to its own know-how.
Although a stock-picker who underperforms benchmark share-price indices will find himself out of a job, there are no benchmarks for investment consultants themselves.
From around DM35 a share in early 1993, Veba's stock soared to over DM130 early this year, handily outpacing the DAX index (see chart).
All options do are give the recipient the right to buy stock at a certain price per share within a certain period of time.
Strypes purchasers get fixed interest payments plus a large share of any gains in the underlying stock while assuming all or almost all the risk of loss.
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Based on a comparison of stock prices to per-share earnings and growth rates, he calculates, small caps now are trading at an 11% premium to large caps.
Risk-taking CEOs are much more likely to be paid with a greater share of their package made up of stock, options and bonuses, and less in the form of salary.
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