Sentences with phrase «asking price of a share»

One standard tool for measuring value is the price - to - book (P / B) ratio which represents the difference between the asking price of a share and its underlying value as determined by the assets of the company.

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At Ford's annual shareholder meeting in May, a frustrated investor even asked about bringing former CEO Alan Mulally out of retirement to boost the company's share price.

Together, they decided to slash the size of the offering from 4.75 million shares to 3 million shares, according to a Reuters report, and cut the asking price from a maximum of $ 14 to a maximum of $ 10 a share.

A lawsuit filed Monday accused three makers of insulin of conspiring to drive up the prices of their lifesaving drugs, harming patients who were being asked to pay for a growing share of their drug bills.

That's why they sometimes ask for a cap, which sets a ceiling on the value of the price they pay for their share of the company in the next round.

Ask — The price that a seller is willing to take for a share of stock; how much it will cost you to buy stock

The Markham, Ontario - based company was aiming to raise about C$ 80 million ($ 62 million) selling shares at C$ 10 each, after lowering the price from a range of C$ 12 to C$ 14, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private.

You are looking to pick up shares of a company for a certain price, called the ask price.

Market price returns reflect the midpoint of the bid / ask spread as of the close of trading on the exchange where Fund shares are listed.

«By the end of July 1932 - the month the Dow Jones Industrials bottomed out - 80 % of all NYSE stocks in the bottom decile had bid prices less than or equal to $ 1 per share, while the bid - ask spread for these prices averaged 135 % of the bid price (e.g., bid 1/2, ask 1-1/8).

Every time they received a cash inflow and attempted to buy shares, they would be forced to buy at the elevated ask prices set by the small number of active funds willing and able to transact with them, ask prices that they would push up through their attempted buying.

When asked if Syrah was a takeover target at its current share price, Mr Slifirski said: «Anytime you see a company with a world class resource in terms of scale, quality and position on the cost curve, which is exposed to a disruptive technology and has an open share register, it makes absolute sense as a takeover target.»

Some mission organizations or individual missionaries consider a few «creative tactics» to gain admission to a closed country a small price to pay for the greater good of sharing the Gospel — missionaries like D. Due to the sensitive nature of his work, he asked that his name and the mission organization he worked with be withheld, but he has a couple decades of experience on the mission field in closed - off countries.

I think what should be asked, and what is owed to all fans, is why we are always scrimping and saving, when we pay the highest season ticket prices and we have plentiful cash reserves, as witnessed by our majority share - holder being able to whip out the odd 3 - 4million out of it whenever he wants.

I talked about a new record price and the market - makers then raising the bid and ask prices a couple of times, and immediately another share was...

What Indonesia is asking for is access to products that come out of biological materials they have shared, at a price they can afford.»

You could even ask people to share clever ideas of a few free or low - cost activities to accommodate all price points.

Indeed, I just saw a different market share study, done by asking samples of book readers about their purchases, that said that ebooks were now about 15 % of book spending, but about 30 % of book sales, which dovetails with the observation of generally low price for the top selling ebooks.

RIM did not want to share anything about the pricing, and when asked about the brand of the SoC / processor, the company representative told me that «the information will be released closer to the market launch, in late summer 2011».

The bid price and ask price are two of the most quoted, yet at the same time least understood, share price metrics available to stock market investors.

I've asked the question because I've wondered, if trading a large number of shares per trade require a different approach for entering (That was my fundamental question), managing and exiting (For example: Building a position OR Entering all shares at once when the trigger price has been hit, Stop Market OR Stop Limit, Ave daily volume of 1M OR Should be more etc.).

Say you select a stock with an ask price of $ 25 and you open a CFD to the value of 100 shares.

Lenders expect homebuyers to have enough money available to make the down payment (usually up to 20 percent of the asking price for the house) and to pay their share of the closing costs (3 percent to 6 percent of the loan amount).

If you had entered a market order to sell in that scenario, then you would not sell your shares at the ask price of $ 37.9.

You are able to buy a share of SPY because someone else is willing to sell his / her share at the price you are bidding, or you are willing to pay the price the seller is asking.

If you had a sell limit order at $ 36, then your order would have represented an ask price of $ 36, and your shares would have been sold to a buyer willing to pay $ 36.

Lenders expect homebuyers to have enough money available to make the down payment of between 10 and 20 percent of the asking price for the house - though FHA and VA loans require smaller down payment (0 to 5 percent) and to pay their share of the closing costs (3 percent to 6 percent of the loan amount).

This takes the form of seven questions we ask in relation to every single cheap company we analyse and which help us distinguish those likely to remain permanently cheap from those whose share prices have the potential to bounce back.

When you enter an order to buy or sell shares of Coca - Cola, someone has to be on the other side of the trade and agree to your asking price for the trade to execute.

For example if Joe wants to sell 100 shares of C (CityGroup) at $ 4.60 then he will «ask» for a price of $ 4.60.

The 80 % figure will fluctuate day by day as market cap is based on the bid - ask price and the number of shares in the free float.

In percentage terms, a $ 0.01 of bid / ask spread is higher for lower - priced stocks than higher - priced stocks, given the ratio to the share price.

The danger arises from the fact that the bid and ask spreads of many of these investments can be so wide that the share price will have to go up significantly before you'll even begin to make money on a sale.

Danielle asks: «The close price of shares on Google Finance is different to that on the Stock Exchange website.

The opposite of the bid is the ask price, which is the price at which sellers are willing to sell shares; the bid price and ask price are always quoted together, and the bid price is always the lower of the two.

Both also offer free «snap quotes,» but to get Level 2 quotes — which show number of shares available at prices below the highest bid or above the lowest ask price — you'll need to purchase data packages with monthly fees between $ 20 and $ 100.

So I ask myself, is it possible that Kalani or a proxy is shorting the shares in an attempt (very successful to this point) of gaining the majority of the equity at the least price?

Investors should be aware of the spread between the price they will pay for shares (ask) and the price a share could be sold for (bid).

Thereafter, the remaining 500 shares are executed at whatever the ask prices are for the sellers of the next 500 shares listed at the ask price.

Market price returns are based upon the midpoint of the bid / ask spread at 4:00 p.m. ET (when NAV is normally determined for most funds) and do not represent the returns you would receive if you traded shares at other times.

Adding one share (or a million shares) at a higher asking price, here: $ 210 instead of $ 200, will not have any effect at all.

For example, if the bid ask is $ 49.95 — $ 50.00 at the time you place your order, and your trade to buy 300 shares executed at $ 49.99, you received a price improvement of $ 3.00, compared to the ask price of $ 50.00.

Also, in fast market conditions, there could be orders ahead of yours that deplete all available shares at the bid or ask, moving prices in or out of your favor by the time you place your trade.

For example, if you enter an order to sell 300 shares at a limit of $ 49.97 when the bid ask is $ 49.95 — $ 50.00, and the order executes at $ 49.98, you have received a price improvement of $ 3.00, based on the limit price of $ 49.97.

Along with the bid price and ask price, there is also an indication of size, representing how many shares are willing to be bought (bid size) and sold (ask size) at those prices.

I prefer to focus instead on looking at all my positions afresh every day / week, and asking what % holding (if any) should I now own based on the company's business / financial risk, its share price action, its potential fair value upside, the changing micro and macro risk environment, and the relative value of other holdings / buy list stocks.

I can't imagine that the matching engine would ignore the best asks in favor of a higher price, in the event of a normally liquid security, not some unicorn $ 900 per share thinly traded stock.

The only interesting moment of the call was when a question was asked about whether management shouldn't be doing something like buying back shares given the continuing chasm between book value ($ 11) and market price ($ 7 - 8).

As a professional investor often working in the small / microcap space, I can confirm that bid / ask spreads on these types of stocks can be unusually wide, and irresponsible «traders» can move the share prices around wildly.

At the end of her article for the mining magazine last year, she asked for anyone who shared her «vision» for an Australia without a price on carbon and with climate science deniers leading the debate, to contact John Roskam, the executive director of the Australian free market think - tank the Institute for Public Affairs.