How to read the weekend stock tables

1 — Name of stock.

2 — Exchange: N = NYSE, Q = Nasdaq, A = NYSE American.

3 — Ticker Symbol company trades under.

4 — Dividend: A distribution of the company’s earnings to shareholders, usually consisting of stock dividends, interest on bonds, or short-term capital gains on the sale of securities usually paid quarterly in the form of cash or stock.

5 — Div. Yield: The dividend divided by the stock price. It helps gauge how well the stock is paying, compared to other investments such as CDs, bonds or savings accounts.

6 — Price to earnings ratio: The price of a stock divided by its earnings per share. PEs are used to gauge the relative worth of a company’ stock. When compared to other companies in the same industry, the companies with the lowest PEs are generally earning higher profits.

7 — Range of closing prices in last year.

8 — Trading on Friday, with sales in thousands (10 = 10,000 shares), and closing price.

9 — Weekly sales volume, High, low, and change from previous week’s close.

10 — Percent change for the year to date.

▲▼ Arrows, indicate new highs or lows during the week. Underline: indicates weekly volume surge equal to or more than 5%. Bold stocks , designates which stocks have gone up or down 10% for the week. Stock Footnotes:

g - Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars.

h - Does not meet continued-listing standards.

lf - Late filing with SEC. n - Stock was a new issue in the last year. The 52-week high and low figures date only from the beginning of trading.

pf - Preferred stock issue.

pr - Preferences.

rs - Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50% within the past year.

rt - Right to buy security at a specified price.

s - Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year.

wi - Trades will be settled when the stock is issued.

wd - When distributed.

wt - Warrant, allowing a purchase of a stock. un - Unit,, including more than one security.

vj - Company in bankruptcy or receivership, or being reorganized under the bankruptcy law. Appears in front of the name.

Dividend Footnotes:

a - Extra dividends were paid, but are not included.

b - Annual rate plus stock.

c - Liquidating dividend.

e - Amount declared or paid in last 12 months.

f - Current annual rate, which was increased by most recent dividend announcement.

i - Sum of dividends paid after stock split, no regular rate.

j - Sum of dividends paid this year. Most recent dividend was omitted or deferred.

k - Declared or paid this year, a cumulative issue with dividends in arrears.

m - Current annual rate, which was decreased by most recent dividend announcement.

p - Initial dividend, annual rate not known, yield not shown.

r - Declared or paid in preceding 12 months plus stock dividend.

t - Paid in stock, approximate cash value on ex-distribution date.

PE Footnotes: cc - P/E exceeds 99.

dd - Loss in last 12 months.

q - Stock is a closed-end fund - no P/E ratio shown.