But sometimes there's a wide spread--and in a volatile stock, a difference of a nickel a share off the consensus forecast can mean a big swing in a stock price when earnings come out.
In the fourth quarter, the difference between the stock with the biggest returns and the stock with the worst returns was about 30 percentage points, compared with the average difference of 50 percentage points over the past decade, Ms. Subramanian says.
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For many deep pocketed skiers the difference between stock and custom is equivalent to one or two post skiing massages sprung for because the stock boots left them sore or the day of skiing paid for but missed thanks to burnt out legs.
The difference reflects additional stock awards that Murdoch could receive next year.
Is there a difference between financial stock analyses and a news report about a matter of public significance such as the tidal wave?
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Of course, it is possible that in some cases something else could be driving the difference between current stock price and existing business cash flows.
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He went on to learn the difference between a good stock and a bad one, and oversaw portfolios at various money managers.
There is one major difference: Nearly all the stock will be produced in China.
He then examined the relationship between growth and shareholder returns using a measurement known as Jensen's alpha, which represents the difference between a company's stock performance and the return of a diversified portfolio of risky stocks.
That is, when the futures markets get out of synch with the cash market for stocks trading on stock exchanges, the computers instantly spot the difference and pounce, buying one and selling the other for a few minutes, which brings them back into synch.
The most persuasive evidence that trust plays a role, Sapienza says, is the difference from country to country in direct stock ownership by the wealthy, who presumably should all own shares.
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The difference, Mr Greenspan suggests, lies with stock options.
That's because options are taxed as earnings when they're exercised, based on the difference between the exercise price and the value of the stock.
The difference between the two was the accounting cost of shares and stock options employees owned.
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Simply put, is a specific stock trading above or below its historical average and is there justification for the difference?
Unless you own stock in one of the makers, the AGA says there is practically no difference between proton pump inhibitors.
However, even if Germany did agree, I say it will not make any real difference long term other than creating a short-term rally in stock prices.
In midday trading, the volume on the stock is 1, 143, 000, which is a 31.54% difference from its 65-day average daily volume of 849, 388.
In the current semiconductor upturn, as all firms rebound, the difference between the two will be less than expected, meaning that the stock should do well.
My what a difference 18 months makes ( see chart.) For anyone who thinks the stock market is efficient the value of Netflix should make one wonder.
The major difference is that you need a brokerage account to trade them because shares trade on a stock exchange during the day, rather than at the end of the day with a fund company.
The difference between then and now is that rising health care costs, once masked by a buoyant stock market, have become a matter of national urgency.
For me the most outstanding difference is how hard the U.S. market will punish a mildly failing or just merely unfashionable stock.
There undoubtedly will be lawsuits from Lubrizol shareholders against Sokol and Berkshire Hathaway, probably naming Buffett as well, charging that they were cheated out of the difference between the price they sold their shares to Sokol and the price Berkshire is paying Sokol for his stock.
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