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Google's ( Alphabet's ) market cap is $726.74 Billion.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=goog
Disney's market cap is $162.52 Billion
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=dis
Google is about 5X the size of Disney. So Disney ain't buying google anytime soon.
> Tim Cook? Good Leader? LMAO.
good leader for Apple and its investors.
Regardless of what you think of apple products (i am an android users btw), the share price & market cap don't lie....and is the only measurement of a public company.
you can think Tim cook lacks imagination and is shitty and approves derivative products (that's my view as well btw). But You know what Apple investors and tim cook thinks of your opinion?
They don't.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL&ei=BdU4WsD8FYujuAT51IOIDw
No. The Dow Jones Industrial Average consists of a subset of 30 large companies that are supposed to be an indication of the health of the stock market as a whole.
It really doesn't mean as much as media makes it out to be.
I'd recommend going to http://finance.google.com , make a new portfolio, and pretend to put, say, 20k into 3 stocks. You'll find that when the dow goes up, your stocks usually have gone up and vice versa.
In the days before you could check your up to date stock balance on your phone, the dow was more interesting to common people. Now, it's more used as a metric for the health of the economy (for better or worse).
Most aren't. The logic is pretty simple. Exponential growth has caused a tenfold increase lately, and many expect it to continue. So if you assume the same returns, 80000 next year? 800000 the next? All feasible using that growth.
The big question is how long that growth will continue. Check out a long-term chart: BTC
So let's see- 2010, under a dollar. 5 cents per coin. It went up 1000% to 50 cents, then 1000% to $5, then another 200% to $15 in mid-2011. Then it fell back to $2, over 80% by the end of 2011.
Next run: $2, up 1000% to $20 by early 2013. 1000% more to $200 by late 2013. 500% to a nearly $1200 by early 2014. Then it fell back to $200 in mid-2015, again over an 80% decline.
Now from $200 - 1000% to $2000 by mid-2017. 300% more since then. Does it keep up the pattern of an over 10000% increase from the low? That would mean $20000, then higher (but not quite $200000) before the next pullback. Which could be 80% again, but who knows.
So you see, Bitcoin is a different beast. It has some pattern but it's wildly unpredictable.
Growth vs dividend. If you're more interested in growth, USA doesn't appear to be the best choice...
First off, I think you misread their financials. They made almost a billion after tax and ~$3.5 billion in gross profit.
To more directly address your question, even if they were losing money somehow:
>In suits alleging a corporation's director violated his duty of care to the company, courts will evaluate the case based on the business judgment rule. Under this standard, a court will not second guess the decisions of a director as long as they are made (1) in good faith, (2) with the care that a reasonably prudent person would use, and (3) with the reasonable belief that they are acting in the best interests of the corporation.
Microtransactions and generally not investing in customer service are both perfectly reasonable business decisions which have a particular logic (which you may or may not agree with--that doesn't matter) behind them.
google finance is changing from an investor tool to an information platform. I did a youtube here if you want to see why I say this:
So best bet is to move over to Yahoo Finance.
(BTW, you can still access the old google platform by typing : http://finance.google.com/finance )
Currency hedged ETFs are designed to solve this very problem by de-coupling the market risk from the foreign exchange risk.
Such ETFs, next to owning foreign currency denominated assets, also hold a hedging component (forex futures or options) to factor out the foreign exchange risk. One example is IUSE, a Euro-denominated, Euro-hedged ETF of the S&P 500 index from BlackRock (iShares).
You can see the effects of the hedging in this chart comparing IUSE (Euro-hedged, Euro-denominated S&P 500 ETF), IUSA (unhedged, Euro-denominated S&P 500 ETF), and the EURUSD exchange rate.
A search for "stock market APIs" returns quite a few. Looks like this is good: https://www.alphavantage.co/
Or google finance: http://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=NASDAQ%3A[STOCK TICKERS]
Do you realize you're looking up Ford Motor Company's stock here?
Go to http://finance.google.com, put in the symbol for the company, or the name if you don't know it and it will find the symbol.
Ford's symbol is "F". Type F, hit return, then click Max.
Their stock was a little higher in 1997 than in 2017, hence the loss.
> Their cash flow is consistently negative.
Right, but they have cash, they don't have a cash problem.
> I doubt they would be able to dilute equity again
Dilute, serious? Pull up a 3 month chart, 6 month, 1 year, 5 year, max, dilution is not an issue.
I am personally not invested in TSLA, I agree that it is a risky bet and my risk threshold is way too low for TSLA, but to date it has been amazing and there is no cash issue and no dilution issue.
I took the survey but there wasn't really a free text field for thoughts so I thought I'd split some out here:
The maps for each district should be zoomed in to that district. The default view gives a dense cluster of markers which is unusable without zooming in.
Hovering over the categories on the pie-chart should display a box explaining what the categories are. This would be in addition to the pop up box already provided.
Clicking on a category in the pie-chart should filter both the map and the line graph to show only calls matching that category.
It may be helpful to color code the markers on the map to match the categories on the pie-chart.
A nice feature would be filter sliders on the timeline graph which allow you to adjust the start / end dates. Changing the dates on the graph would also update the pie-chart and map markers to filter for the selected range. See Google Finance for an example of what I mean.
You should be able to click on an individual map marker and see more information about that call, i.e. the call code description.
Overall though a great start!
What's the URL you are using, in your HHTP Get?.... You may try to query URL like this one: http://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=NASDAQ%3aAAPL
So You can get a sort of JSON result, that tasker can parse...
// [ { "id": "22144" ,"t" : "AAPL" ,"e" : "NASDAQ" ,"l" : "122.24" ,"l_fix" : "122.24" ,"l_cur" : "122.24" ,"s": "1" ,"ltt":"4:13PM EDT" ,"lt" : "Mar 11, 4:13PM EDT" ,"lt_dts" : "2015-03-11T16:13:25Z" ,"c" : "-2.27" ,"c_fix" : "-2.27" ,"cp" : "-1.82" ,"cp_fix" : "-1.82" ,"ccol" : "chr" ,"pcls_fix" : "124.51" ,"el": "122.69" ,"el_fix": "122.69" ,"el_cur": "122.69" ,"elt" : "Mar 12, 8:12AM EDT" ,"ec" : "+0.45" ,"ec_fix" : "0.45" ,"ecp" : "0.37" ,"ecp_fix" : "0.37" ,"eccol" : "chg" ,"div" : "0.47" ,"yld" : "1.54" } ]
You're killing it as a 23 yr old. You should be a millionaire by the time you're 50 - and gambling won't get you there.
Let this calculator inspire you not to gamble or eat out so much. Even if you ~~blow~~ spend $3,000/mo, you should be able to save $1,000/mo. Invest that in VTI and be millionaire by the time you're 50.
Start with $100. $1,000/mo for 27 years. 8% annual rate of return. A millionaire by age 50.
Play with the numbers. Make it rain my friend!
> How difficult is it to do connect your spreadsheet with the google finance API? I haven't dabbled in this at all yet but popular opinion here seems to be that's the way to go.
That's no problem at all. Just set up a web query in Excel with an URL like the following. This is just a sample. You can extend that for the ETFs you are using.
http://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=NYSEARCA:VTI,TSE:VAB,TSE:XIC
> The forecasting you mention (how long to reach x goal) was exactly why I started spreadsheeting.
Again, that's pretty easy. This is powered by two formulas:
1) For the required rate of return (called PlanRate). The parameter names used here should be clear.
=RATE((TgtDate-StartDate)/365.25, AnnContrib, StartVal, -TgtVal)
2) For the portfolio plan value at a certain date (CurDate):
=FV(PlanRate, (CurDate-StartDate)/365.25, -AnnContrib, -StartVal)
> Any recommended reading? I googled the modified dietz formula and the idea is compelling but I'm afraid I get a bit lost in some of the detail.
There is a very good introduction into various rate of return calculation methods in a May 1, 2011, white paper by Justin Bender of PWL Capital.
I used this paper to code the RoR formulas in Excel. On one tab in the spreadsheet I am tracking contributions and portfolio values at month end. A small Visual Basic script in the background does the heavy lifting of archiving portfolio values when the month turns.
Good luck!
Check out /r/algotrading in the sidebar they have a link that discusses where to DL OLHC data.
Also, you can pull json data from google with a URL like http://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=BAC
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> 70 year old male who has apparently no control over how the trust is invested.
Very normal.
> Trust is controlled by Asset Management AllianceBernstein...
Also normal
> The fees must be horrendous.
Possibly. As the beneficiary you can often request this info.
> I'd like to get some feedback on the 3 Strategic Equities Funds as well as the 2 International Equity funds they have chosen for me.
You would need to share the symbols. But even then http://finance.google.com would be a better resource
> ... is cash rich with close to 800k. I don't know if this is only due to the fact that the trust is newly created...
Complete strangers without your trust document would (expectedly) know even less about this.
> I would be optioning my ability to withdraw 20% of the trust...
This is an introduction of material not previously presented. We don’t know your trust configuration and the options you have.
> which would leave close to 600k just sitting there earning low rent from 90 and 180 day Treasury bills.
Would it? That depends entirely on the trustee because as you said earlier you have no control.
More importantly, at the end of this I’m still missing the core question you have for us.
> TIA Cheers.
That is textbook definition of help.
I hear ya. When you get older you'll probably smoke less, then your tolerance goes down and it takes less still to get high.
But when I was younger the ridiculous amounts we would smoke...
And some of my friends smoke more than ever.
But I'm invested in these weedstocks knowing full well how much people consume. That's what I'm betting on ;)
Take a look at this bad boy for example.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=TSE%3AWEED&ei=AU05WvG5JsfUjAGp96OwCA
A basic emplaination: Tesla
It has a negative PE ratio (the company is losing money), but the stock is worth ~300 per share. It's worth that much for a variety of reasons such as
- It might be an extremely profitable company one day
- I believe in the company's future
- I got an extra chicken tender at KFC
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"1kpoints, I also remember your crowing about your investment in EGHT a very long time ago. I'd been following that one. Still waiting for the "hockey stick?" Give us a break"
Yes, what a HORRIBLE stock EGHT has been. Got into it @ 62 cents per share and hyped it to you poor schmucks in the 3 dollar range. Here is the chart :
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Probably 'print' was the wrong word to use.
Secondary offering is not the only way. What I mean is, companies increasing the total outstanding shares by whatever means (warrants, ESP etc) to raise money/fulfill obligations.
For example, look at the AMD's balance sheet for "Diluted Weighted Average Shares " : http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMD&fstype=ii&ei=OsX4WciaGZeYUOTDt9AL
They have increased the outstanding shares every quarter for past several quarters. My question is, is is possible to know what the number of outstanding shares are on a given day?
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A purely visual chart alone does not all the information give.
Free beats $25/month subscription for sure... I had a look at finviz and am not impressed.
I used to be a fan of Yahoo, but it is laggard on price updates. Lately I've been using http://finance.google.com -- charts + news integrated together on an interactive chart means you get some context for spikes and dips... there are way too many automated garbage-spewing bots that attempt to influence the short-term volatility and prices.
Although this should be posted in /r/investing, you need to find out what the money is invested in. For example, is it invested in a few stocks? Get their stock tickers and go to http://finance.google.com and put them in. Click on the max chart. Does it look like it just had a bad few quarters or is it a steady decline? If steady decline then dump it. If bad few quarters then up to you - you could find out why it's down and a lot depends on the company. For instance, Apple lost 25% - does it mean it's a crappy company that should be dumped? No. So for companies like this, keep those shares.
The 85% loss though - wow, that's a bit crazy, I don't see how you'd keep this.
Keep a tally of all your actual sales and loses. You can write this off your taxes for years to come ($3k max/year).
As far as investments, you can take an hour or two and simply look up tracking stocks or ETFs. For instance, here are two:
- Vanguard Total World Stock Index (ticker: VTWSX)
- SPDR S&P 500 ETF (ticker: SPY)
This will give you general exposure to stocks. Buy these and keep adding on a regular basis.
I looked into Wealthfront and it looks good but it's simpler to just do this yourself. You don't want to find out that Wealthfront is a scam down the line.
However, this is for retirement. If you're looking at 3-5 year time frame then this isn't for you unless you want to take a very active stance in investments.
The ROI on stocks and housing have been going up in leaps and bounds over the past 6-7 years. That was kind of the whole point of quantitative easing according to Ben Bernanke.
It's very easy to take a look at the graphs at http://finance.google.com over that period and see that stock prices in general have averaged historically high returns.
No I am not sure how to do it exactly, Ive researched online but have found nothing on how to get these values into my functions. Do you have any idea on how to do this?
Ive been trying this to get the net income:
=split(ImportXML(concatenate("http://finance.google.com/finance?q=","MMM"), "//td[@data-snapfield='latest_net_income']/following-sibling::*"),"/")
There's nothing directly, but here's a few I created: A4 refers to the cell with the ticker symbol in the below examples. These return the quarterly dividend amount.
- =index((split(ImportXML("http://finance.google.com/finance?q=" & A4, "//td[@data-snapfield='latest_dividend-dividend_yield']/following-sibling::*"),"/")),1,1)
- =ImportData("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s="&A4&"&f=d")/4
More examples here.
Here's what I use, I multiply the dividend yield of a stock with the day to day price of that stock. If the stock price goes up, the yield goes down, if the stock price goes down the yield goes up so you always get the accurate value.
In simple terms you need the following values:
- The stock price on that day (ex: =googlefinance(ko))
- The dividend yield of that stock, from a source that updates it based on stock price (ex:=split(ImportXML(concatenate("http://finance.google.com/finance?q=","KO"), "//td[@data-snapfield='latest_dividend-dividend_yield']/following-sibling::*"),"/"))
If you multiply the above two values, you get an accurate dividend return based on the dividend rate.
So your cell will look like:
=Stock price today(1) * Dividend yield(2)
It will return the total dividend you would be payed for that stock.
So, like how you can buy stocks and mutual funds, you can also buy ETFs (Electronically Traded Funds) that are like stocks, it works the exact same way.
There's some ETFs that do neat things like the opposite of the S&P 500, one of them has the ticker symbol "SH". So you can go to finance.google.com and search "SH" and you will see it. With SH, if the S&P 500 goes down 1.5%, SH goes up 1.5%. It's a day-to-day direct inverse.
So if you have an etrade account or whatever, you can buy SH and when the market goes down as it seems very likely to do, you will make money instead of lose money.
Does that help make it clear?
The last split I see (http://finance.google.com symbol:mcd) was Mar 8, 1999 as a 2:1.
Current stock price for McD is about $97.xx so, depending on exactly when you acquired the McD, you may have just the one share or 2. If you decide to sell the stock, you will have to pay the sales commission.
While I totally agree with your sentiments about the federal reserve and Austrian economics in general, it's not a good idea to buy silver or gold or anything in the stock market blindly on a regular basis.
The price of silver especially is quite volatile, you're better off holding on to your cash and buying when it's low with the idea that you won't need to sell it for potentially several years down the line.
What happens when the price of silver bubbles? Let's say you bought silver on April 28 for $47.26, and then your car breaks down on May 5 when it's $33.72? You can't wait a month for it to go back up again (it won't climb back to those inflated rates for quite awhile, even with inflation).
If you're saving for retirement or some other long term investment, you can afford to say "some time in the next year I'd like to sell," but these things fluctuate too much these days to realistically use as an emergency fund.
Silver will always rise in our inflationary monetary system, but it will rise gradually over time and there will be booms and busts.
Have a look at the price of silver. Does it go up? hell yes. Do you want to blindly buy it for something you may need to sell in a moments notice when shit hits the fan? Not a good idea.
I typically use a stock screener. Google Finance has a nice one, and there are many more. You use them by setting the various criteria that you're looking for and it shows you all the stocks that meet them.
Edit: frank62609 mentioned the Motley Fool, they have a great stock screener too.
also the crash was predicted on July 18 to the day that Lehman collapsed.
http://finance.google.com/group/google.finance.983582/browse_thread/thread/aad550b590f931bf?pli=1
There's a lot more going on in finance than you think, are you familiar with the Jekyll Island Meetings?