4. Fundamentals and earnings

Events and deals

Dividends, splits, catalysts and mergers between earnings reports.

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  • 3 lessons
  • 13 min
About this section

Between earnings reports, companies pay dividends, split shares, face regulators and courts, and buy or get bought; these pages put dates and evidence on each.

What you will be able to do

  • Read a dividend history, a yield and a payout ratio (DVD), and the corporate actions calendar (EVT).
  • Follow dated regulatory, clinical, legal and trade-policy events with their sources (CATL).
  • Read a merger deal and its arbitrage spread (MA).

Five words to know

dividend
cash a company pays its shareholders, per share
yield
a yearly payment as a percentage of the price
split
cutting each share into several smaller ones; the value does not change
catalyst
a dated event that can move the price
merger
two companies combining, usually one buying the other
  1. 01Dividends and corporate actions (DVD, EVT)DVD shows a stock's dividend history, yield, payout ratio and growth, and EVT puts dividends, splits, earnings dates and estimates on one timeline.4 min
  2. 02Catalysts (CATL)CATL is a calendar of dated events that can move a stock (trial results, regulators' decisions, court deadlines, tariffs), each with its date basis, status and source.4 min
  3. 03Mergers and acquisitions (MA)MA lists pending, rumored and closed takeover deals with their terms, their stage and, for listed targets, the arbitrage spread between the offer and the market price.4 min

Educational material about reading market data, not investment advice.