When companies declare a dividend, they choose the amount per share, the date the stock will go ex-dividend, and the date payment will be made to shareholders of record.
Year-to-date the stock is up 20.6%, and the company has been a player in the short squeeze.
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If you do wish to account for this, enter the value of the dividend payment with a negative sign on the date a stock goes ex-dividend, and add the number back in when the dividend is received.
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That was when option awards were determined and then the date on which the stock price was lowest was chosen as the grant date, thus maximizing the potential for profit.
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Such charges were sweeping Silicon Valley at the time after professor Erik Lie of the University of Iowa released a paper in 2005 suggesting that a number of companies may have changed dates on stock options to richly compensate employees (pick a date with the lowest stock price).
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And this resulted in a 41.92% return year to date in its stock price.
Using the classic Rule of 72, even the year-to-date, annualized stock market return of 3.83% implies it will take 19 years for a portfolio invested 100% in equities to double in value.
They analyzed each closing stock price before and after the date of a public announcement and found that the average stock price 120 days before a phase III clinical trial announcement showed an increase of 13.7 percent for companies that reported positive trials and a 0.7 percent drop for those reporting negative trial results ( here is the abstract).
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Just counting the week before the on-sale date, Apple's stock gained 2.9% on average.
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The cycle work points to April 19th as the target date for a peak in stock prices.
For a stock that has performed as well as SanDisk has, up 58% thus far year to date, one has to wonder if the stock has already played out.
The high yield market rose over 4 percent during October, returning more than the stock market year to date.
Put options (a contract to sell the stock at a future date) lock in a sell price, but increase costs, especially since they expire worthless if not executed.
With the stock up 21% year-to-date, and Suva anticipating little EPS acceleration in the near-term, he thinks the stock already reflects most near-term catalysts, including firmer LCD panel pricing.
But the Republican stock answers on the economy date to the 1980s.
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No sentencing date has been set for the former stock-trading duo.
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With the stock up 45%year to date, his advice is not to chase the shares.
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As for Exelon, it pays a higher dividend yield of 4.8%, with its stock producing year-to-date a total return of 9%.
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Like I said, a stock like GMCR, a stock like Apple, a stock like Jiayuan.com ( DATE), which is a new Chinese IPO.
Stock options with an exercise price of fair market value or higher on the grant date qualified as cap-exempt performance-based compensation, while service-vested restricted stock did not.
The stock is up 60% year to date, compared with a 19% rise in the Nikkei.
Stock is up 163% year to date and 1, 425% in the last five years.
Fidelity Leveraged Company Stock's year-to-date return of 24.8% puts it in the top 2% of mid-cap blend funds.
Even at the current price, the stock is up 48% year to date.
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These gains are adding to the stock's year-to-date rally of more than 5%.
Under a look-back provision, the stock price is keyed to the offering date or the purchase date, whichever is lower.
Note that NFLX shares rank among the best-performing shares for the year to date: since the end of December, the stock has rallied almost 45%.
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Not only are the shares sitting on a year-to-date loss of nearly 56%, but the stock is currently trapped beneath a raft of technical resistance.
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