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Equities & Finance Glossary – Terms Starting with D
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Date & Time The date and time the values displayed in a watch list were last updated. For securities priced only once per day (e.g., mutual funds), the values displayed are as of the end of the previous business day.
Date First Viewed In the Recently Viewed Stocks list, the date the stock was first evaluated or compared.
Date/Time For stock, option, and Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) quotes, the date and time of the last order for shares of the security. The quote is delayed by at least 20 minutes if you are not logged in. All times are in Eastern Standard (ET). For mutual funds and money market funds quotes, the date the fund was last priced (the date the last net asset value (NAV) close price was calculated). For index quotes, the date and time the index was last valued. For Fidelity variable annuity investment options, the date the investment options were last priced (the date the last closing price was calculated). All dates and times are in Eastern Time (ET).
Day High The highest price traded for a security during the current trading day.
Day Low The lowest price traded for a security during the current trading day.
Days Since New 52 Wk High/Low Days since a stock's price reached a new 52-week high/low. A value of 1 would find all of the companies that reached a new 52-week high/low today. A value of 5 would find all of the companies that reached a new high/low in the last week.
Debt to Capital Ratio Long term debt divided by capital (shareholder's equity plus debt).
Unlike debt-to-equity, debt-to-capital results in a number between 0 (no debt) and 100 (no equity). It indicates what proportion of equity and debt the company is using to finance its assets. A higher debt-to-capital ratio means the company is using a lot of financial leverage. A highly leveraged company will give stock holders outsized returns when the company is doing well, but the risk of bankruptcy is much higher when the company stops doing well. If you want to figure out whether a company has the right amount of leverage, you can compare its leverage with the leverage of other companies in the same industry.
Depreciation Total non-cash charges to income for the gradual, systematic reduction of the actual cost or other basic value of tangible and intangible assets over their estimated useful lives (e.g., factors such as wearing, aging, or obsolescence).
Div. Coverage (EPS Next Yr/IAD) Next year's earnings per share divided by the indicated annual dividend (IAD).
Since estimates for next year's earnings come from Wall Street analysts, this criterion will only find companies followed by Wall Street analysts. If you do not want to eliminate companies with no analyst coverage, use Dividend Coverage (EPS TTM/IAD), which does not use projections.
Dividend Coverage (EPS TTM/IAD) The company's trailing twelve-month earnings divided by its indicated annual dividend (IAD).
A high dividend coverage number might indicate that a company can afford to raise its dividend. A low number might suggest that the company cannot afford to continue paying dividends at the current rate, and might be forced to cut its dividend.
Dividend Growth Rate The average growth rate in dividends per share for a specified period. Time periods include:
IAD (Indicated Annual Dividend) to Prior Year 5 Years For this criterion, the universe is dividend-paying stocks only. This is a fundamental measure of a company's real growth rate. Since investors keep the dividends paid, the risk is that the growth rate will slow, or that the dividend will be cut.
Dividend Pay Date The date on which a dividend was paid.
Dividend Payout % Last Quarter Dividend Payout is the percentage of the primary earning per share excluding extraordinary items paid to common stock holders in the form of cash dividends during the last quarter. For this criterion, the universe is dividend-paying stocks only.
A high dividend payout number might not be sustainable. Therefore, this criterion can be used to find companies that might be forced to cut their dividend.
Dividend Rate The dollar amount per share of the latest dividend paid.
Dividend Yield Dividend Yield is the current annual dividend rate, which is determined by multiplying the latest dividend paid per share by the number of times it is paid during the year, divided by the current monthly close price. This figure is then multiplied by 100.
The dividend yield ratio allows investors to compare the latest dividend they received with the current market value of the share as an indicator of the return they are earning on their shares.
Dividends The cash payment per share made by the company to its shareholders every quarter. It is usually the part of profits not reinvested in the company. Dividends are taxed as income, not capital gains.
Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) dividends are paid out of income from the fund's investments. The tax on such dividends depends on whether the distributions resulted from interest income, or dividends received by the fund.
Dividends Per Share Ex-Date This item represents the cash dividends per share for which the ex-dividend dates occurred during the reporting period, adjusted for all stock splits and stock dividends that occurred during the period. This item, unlike Common Dividends, excludes payments in preferred stock in lieu of cash, spin-offs, and stock of other corporations.
DMI DMI helps provide an indication of how strong the directional movement (trend) is in a stock. It is comprised of three components. The first component, ADX, rates the directional movement (trend) of a stock on a scale of 0 to 100. In general, the higher the number the more a stock is trending and the more it is a candidate for a trend-following system. The next two components help decipher what the trend is showing. DMI+ is a measure of upward or positive movement in a stock. DMI- is a measure of negative or downward movement in a stock. A buy signal is given when DMI+ crosses DMI-. A sell signal is given when DMI- crosses over DMI+. The ADX line is then used to measure the strength of these signals. Traders typically like to act on these signals when the ADX is at a high number.
$ Gain The difference between the purchase price per share multiplied by the number of shares at the last price quoted for a security.
$ Value The last trade price of a security multiplied by the number of shares.
Dow Jones AIG Commodity Index The Dow Jones AIG Commodity Index is a liquid and diversified benchmark for commodities as an asset class. The index is composed of futures contracts on 19 physical commodities traded on U.S. exchanges, with the exception of aluminum, nickel, and zinc, which trade on the London Metal Exchange. Commodity futures contracts specify a delivery date for the underlying physical commodity. In order to avoid delivery and maintain a long futures position, nearby contracts must be sold and contracts that have not reached the delivery period must be purchased. This process is known as "rolling" a futures position, and the Dow Jones AIG Commodity Index is a "rolling" index.
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) An unmanaged, price-weighted index of 30 common blue chip stocks, comprised of major industrial companies. The DJIA assumes reinvestment of dividends.
Dow Jones Wilshire 4500 Completion Index An unmanaged, float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index of substantially all equity securities of U.S. headquartered companies with readily available price data, except those included in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500).
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index An unmanaged, float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index of substantially all equity securities of U.S. headquartered companies with readily available price data.
Downgrade What happens when an analyst of firm reduces their rating or recommendation on a particular stock. For example, an analyst may downgrade a stock from "buy" to "hold." Depending on the analyst's reputation and what is revealed in the analyst's research (e.g., new information), a downgrade may help drive the stock price down.
Duration (in Days) The number of days a recommendation lasted during the selected period.
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