Labh Lakshmi

Sensex below 14K, slips nearly 470 pts

Markets on Monday partly recovered the massive early losses of over 728 points with the benchmark Sensex ending the day lower by nearly 470 points to close below 14,000 level.

The Bombay Stock Exchange barometer, which had lost nearly 945 points in the past four trading sessions, dropped by another 469.54 points, or 3.35 per cent, to close at 13,531.27 points.

On frantic selling in early trade, the 30-share index tumbled to 13,150.81 points, the days lowest level.

Principals of Investment in Stock Market

10-K Reports

All publicly traded companies are required to file a 10-K report each year to the SEC. The 10-K report is similar to the annual report, except that it contains more detailed information about the company’s business, finances, and management. It also includes the bylaws of the company,

Principals of Investment in Stock Market

Introduction

Private companies initially sell their stock to the public through a process called an initial public offering . But what if you want to buy and sell shares of a company that is already public? How would you go about finding someone who owns the stock that you wish to buy?

Principals of Investment in Stock Market

When people refer to “the stock market” or “the market” it can sometimes be confusing to beginning investors as to what those terms actually mean. Are they talking about all the stocks that trade on the NYSE, all the stocks that trade in the U.S., or all the stocks in the world?

Principals of Investment in Stock Market

The idea behind investing is that money is put to use in such a way that it is likely to turn into more money. This could happen because someone is willing to pay interest to use the money or because the value of whatever security the money was used to buy increases during the period of ownership.

Principals of Investment in Stock Market

Stock indices are benchmarks that are used to gauge the performance of a group of stocks. There are many different types of indices and each of them is unique in its own way.

Principals of Investment in Stock Market

As soon as you begin to bring in enough money so that a portion of it may be set aside for investing, a plan is necessary to take full advantage of that money. The amount of money available to invest also plays an important role in what investments can be purchased.

Principals of Investment in Stock Market

S&P 500

The S&P 500 index dates back to 1957 in its modern version (although it has been extrapolated backwards to several decades earlier for performance comparison purposes). This index provides a broad snapshot of the overall US equity market; in fact, over 70% of all U.S. equity is tracked by the S&P 500.

Principals of Investment in Stock Market

How you read an annual report depends upon your purpose. As an investor, your purpose may be to assess profitability, survivability, growth, stability, dividends, potential problems, risks or other factors which may affect your investment in that company.

राइट्स इश्यू (Rights issue)

कंपनियों द्वारा रकम जुटाने के लिए जारी किए जाने वाले वे शेयर जो मौजूदा शेयरधारकों को दिए जाते हैं। आम तौर पर ये शेयर भारी डिस्काउंट (मौजूदा भाव से कम) पर दिए जाते हैं और शेयरधारकों के पास मौजूद शेयरों के अनुपात में होते हैं। जैसे, अगर कोई कंपनी 2:5 में राइट्स इश्यू देने की घोषणा करती है, तो आपको उस कंपनी के हर 5 शेयर पर 2 शेयर खरीदने का अधिकार होगा। राइट्स इश्यू में जारी शेयर सूचीबद्ध होने के बाद आम शेयरों की तरह ही खरीदे-बेचे जा सकते हैं।

शेयर विभाजन (Stock split)