3. One company and its price

The company at a glance

The first minute on any ticker: front page, quotes and peers.

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  • 4 lessons
  • 18 min
About this section

The first minute on any ticker: its front page, a board of prices you keep open, what changes when the ticker is a fund, and which of its neighbours report earnings soon.

What you will be able to do

  • Open DES on any ticker and read the quote, the ranges, the returns and the key numbers.
  • Keep a QQ board of your names open in a corner.
  • Tell a fund from a company and find a fund's official documents with ETF.
  • Use RIPL to see which customers and suppliers of your holdings report soon.

Five words to know

ticker
the short code for a listed company or fund
last
the price of the most recent trade
spread
the gap between the best price to sell and the best price to buy
range
a low and a high over some period
fund
a pot of money from many people, invested in a basket of things
  1. 01The overview page (DES)DES is the front page of a ticker: quote, day and 52-week ranges, the long chart, returns, key numbers, and tabs into everything else, on one screen.5 min
  2. 02A board of quotes (QQ)QQ is a wall of tiles, one per ticker, each with the last price, today's change, a one-month sparkline and the month's low and high.4 min
  3. 03A fund's official documents (ETF)ETF lists a US fund's filings with the SEC (prospectus, holdings reports, shareholder reports) and opens any of them.4 min
  4. 04Earnings ripple (RIPL)RIPL lists the big customers and suppliers of your holdings that report earnings in the next 30 days, with how much revenue links them.4 min

Educational material about reading market data, not investment advice.