[112] The company began to offer a dividend on January 16, 2003, starting at eight cents per share for the fiscal year followed by a dividend of sixteen cents per share the subsequent year, switching from yearly to quarterly dividends in 2005 with eight cents a share per quarter and a special one - time payout of three
dollars per share for the second quarter of the fiscal year.
But the P / E ratio is giving no credit to non-earning assets such as its large cash balance, the value of its venture cap portfolio (like autonomous cars) or YouTube — which, based on hours of viewing, would be worth hundreds of
dollars per share if valued like cable networks.
By December Nautilus's stock on the Toronto exchange had fallen below a
Canadian dollar per share after peaking in 2007 at more than six dollars.
Notice that Microsoft paid a one - time special dividend of three
dollars per share in calendar year 2005.
Nobody knows what this business will look like at maturity, but if current hours of YouTube viewing were valued comparably to how the stock market values hours of viewing for the cable networks, YouTube would be worth several hundred
dollars per share.
To some people, a cheap stock is one that is low - priced, like SunEdison (SUNE), currently trading at less than
a dollar per share.
Conversely, if price moves in your favor twice the distance you set for your stop loss (say you're risking 3
dollars per share, and price moves 6 dollars in your favor), then you could close your trade with a 2 % gain, having achieved a reward that is twice what you risked.
Penny stocks are those stocks that are usually purchased for less than
a dollar per share.
Most stocks trade between a couple of dollars and a few hundred
dollars per share.
There have been instances where this value fell below
a dollar per share, but this is very rare.
Let's say you buy a hundred shares of a company for 50
dollars per share.
A penny stock typically trades for under five
dollars per share, and as the name implies, sometimes for pennies.
This year those companies are expected to earn more than $ 112
dollars per share.
Five years ago, the companies in the S&P 500 stock index earned almost $ 83
dollars per share.