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Posted by E Sunday, March 20, 2011

About the Company Financials Pages

Definitions

Income Statement
Often referred to as a Statement of Profit and Loss, or P&L, this financial report shows the revenues and expense generated and incurred by a company over a specified period of time. It shows the net gain or loss from the company’s equity position during the stated accounting period.
Balance Sheet
This report presents a snapshot of the company as of a single date, most often the last day of a quarter or year. It shows the accounting value of all of the company’s assets, liabilities and shareholder’s equity as of that date.
Cash Flow Statement
This report presents an analysis of all activities during the accounting period that affected cash, impacted primarily by operations, financing and investments.
Financial Ratios
These ratios are calculated from the reported figures in the financial statements. They are used to analyze the relative financial health of the company as compared to other similar companies. They can be compared over time within the same company to spot trends and evaluate risks, especially when deviating from companies in the same or similar risk categories
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Data Provider

EDGAR Online.

Update Schedule

15 - 20 minute delay.

About the Stock Charts Page

The default chart is 1 year Open/High/Low/Close (OHLC) chart for an individual stock. The intervals (aside from the Intraday) are for 5 days, 1 Month, 3 Months, 6 Months and from 1 to 10 years (if the company has 10 years of price and volume data available). The historical charts include the last sale from the current day.
Charting elements available for display are Open/High/Low/Close (OHLC) for the periods covered, comparisons to the Nasdaq Composite, Nasdaq-100, S&P 500, DJIA and All Indices.
Stock charts can be viewed displaying moving averages for 10 days, 60 days, 90 days or 270 days.
A chart displaying Historical Stock Splits and a table containing the split amount, ex-date, pay-date, record-date and announcement date is also displayed.
A chart displaying Earnings information and a table containing the date of the earnings announcement is also available.
By clicking on any of the price charts (except intraday) the user can see a list of each days closing prices for the period of time represented by the chart. (At this time the current day's last sale is not included).
Historical splits may also be viewed for the charting period by clicking on that option.

Data Definitions

Chart Range
The period of time covered by the chart. The shortest is intraday and the longest is 10 years.
Chart Elements
Provides the charting options available to the user, from the standard Price/Volume representation to comparisons and moving averages.
Volume
The closing daily official volumes represented graphically for each trading day.

Why Investors Care

Investors look closely at trends to make a judgment about the current a future direction of a stock. It is often easier to determine a stock trend by looking at a chart of stock prices over a period of time, along with the total volume generated during the trading day in relation to the closing price for the day.

Data Provider

Source: Edgar Online, Inc. Data supplied by ILX Systems, Inc.

Update Schedule

15-20 minute delay for intraday charts. Daily for historical charts.

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