Things You'll Need:
- stock market report
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Step 1
Look at the table. There are twelve columns. Starting from the left read the columns. The first two columns represent the week's high and low. These are the highest and lowest prices the stock was traded for over the past year. The third column is the company's name and type. If there is just a name it's a common stock, it there's a pf after the name it's a preferred stock.
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Step 2
Read column four. This is the ticker. It's the alphabetical symbol that is associated with the stock. Column five is the dividend payment while the following column, number six, is the divident yield, or percentage return on each dividend.
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Step 3
Look at the price to earnings ratio in column seven. The number of shares traded in the past day is listed in column eight. The day's high and low range for the day is listed in the next two columns. These will help you see what happened throughout the day.
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Step 4
Read column eleven to find out a lot of information about the stock. Column eleven represents the closing day price. This is the last price the stock was traded at when the bell rang to close the day of trading. If it's bold it means the price dropped or rose more than five percent from the previous day.
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Step 5
Lastly, column twelve is the net change in the price of the stock from the previous day's closing price. This can be represented as either a positive or negative number depending upon whether the stock decreased in value or increased. That's it! You'll be able to understand a stock table now!
