The Quote Overview page gives you a snapshot view for a specific Canadian equity symbol. During market hours, delayed exchange price information displays (Stocks: 15 minute delay, CT) and new delayed trade updates are updated on the page (as indicated by a "flash").
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Quoteboard data fields include:
- Day High / Low: The highest and lowest trade price for the current trading session.
- Open: The opening price for the current trading session is plotted on the day's High/Low histogram.
- Previous Close: The closing price from the previous trading session.
- Bid: The last bid price and bid size.
- Ask: The last ask price and ask size.
- Volume: The total number of shares or contracts traded in the current trading session.
- Average Volume: The average number of shares traded over the last 20 days.
- Weighted Alpha: A measure of how much a stock or commodity has risen or fallen over a one-year period. Barchart takes this Alpha and weights this, assigning more weight to recent activity, and less (0.5 factor) to activity at the beginning of the period. Thus, Weighted Alpha is a measure of one-year growth with an emphasis on the most recent price activity.
Chart Snapshot
A thumbnail of a daily chart is provided, with a link to open and customize a full-sized chart.
Price Performance
This section shows the Highs and Lows over the past 1, 3 and 12-Month periods. Click the "See More" link to see the full Performance Report page with expanded historical information.
Barchart Technical Opinion
The Barchart Technical Opinion widget shows you today's overall Barchart Opinion with general information on how to interpret the short and longer term signals. Unique to Barchart.com, Opinions analyzes a stock or commodity using 13 popular analytics in short-, medium- and long-term periods. Results are interpreted as buy, sell or hold signals, each with numeric ratings and summarized with an overall percentage buy or sell rating. After each calculation the program assigns a Buy, Sell, or Hold value with the study, depending on where the price lies in reference to the common interpretation of the study. For example, a price above its moving average is generally considered an upward trend or a buy.
The Opinion will show on the Quote Overview Page for all asset classes with this exception: For all U.S. Stocks, the Market Cap must be greater than $1B.
A symbol will be given one of the following overall ratings:
- Strong Buy (greater than "66% Buy")
- Buy (greater than or equal to "33% Buy" and less than or equal to "66% Buy")
- Weak Buy ("0% Buy" through "33% Buy")
- Hold
- Strong Sell (greater than "66% Sell")
- Sell (greater than or equal to "33% Sell" and less than or equal to "66% Sell")
- Weak Sell ("0% Sell" through "33% Sell")
The current reading of the 14-Day Relative Strength Index is also factored into the interpretation. The following information will appear when the following conditions are met:
- If the Relative Strength is above 80, the following displays: "Relative Strength is above 80%. The market is in extreme overbought territory. Beware of a trend reversal."
- If the Relative Strength has moved to 'above 80' with today's session, the following displays: "Relative Strength just crossed above 80%. The market has entered extreme overbought territory."
- If the Relative Strength has moved to 'below 80' with today's session, the following displays: "Relative Strength just crossed below 80%. The market has dropped from extreme overbought territory, indicating a possible trend reversal. "
- If the Relative Strength is above 70, the following displays: "Relative Strength is above 70%. The market is in overbought territory. Watch for a potential trend reversal."
- If the Relative Strength has moved to 'above 70' with today's session, the following displays: "Relative Strength just crossed above 70%. The market has entered overbought territory."
- If the Relative Strength has moved to 'below 70' with today's session, the following displays: "Relative Strength just crossed below 70%. The market has dropped from overbought territory. Beware of a potential mean reversion."
- If the Relative Strength has moved to 'above 50' with today's session, the following displays: "Relative Strength just crossed above 50%. The market is indicating support for a bullish trend."
- If the Relative Strength has moved to 'below 50' with today's session, the following displays: "Relative Strength just crossed below 50%. The market is indicating support for a bearish trend."
- If the Relative Strength has moved to 'above 30' with today's session, the following displays: "Relative Strength just crossed above 30%. The market has bounced from oversold territory. Beware of a potential mean reversion."
- If the Relative Strength has moved to 'below 30' with today's session, the following displays: " Relative Strength just crossed below 30%. The market has entered oversold territory."
- If the Relative Strength is below 30, the following displays: "Relative Strength is below 30%. The market is in oversold territory. Watch for a potential trend reversal."
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- If the Relative Strength has moved to 'above 20' with today's session, the following displays: " Relative Strength just crossed above 20%. The market has bounced from extreme oversold territory, indicating a possible trend reversal."
- If the Relative Strength has moved to 'below 20' with today's session, the following displays: "Relative Strength just crossed below 20%. The market has entered extreme territory."
- If the Relative Strength is below 20, the following displays: "Relative Strength is below 20%. The market is in extreme oversold territory. Beware of a trend reversal."
Options Overview
Highlights important summary options statistics to provide a forward looking indication of investors' sentiment.
- Implied Volatility: The average implied volatility (IV) of the nearest monthly options contract that is 30-days or more out. IV is a forward looking prediction of the likelihood of price change of the underlying asset, with a higher IV signifying that the market expects significant price movement, and a lower IV signifying the market expects the underlying asset price to remain within the current trading range.
- 30-Day Historical Volatility: The average deviation from the average price over the last 30 days. Historical Volatility is a measurement of how fast the underlying security has been changing in price back in time.
- IV Percentile: The percentage of days with IV closing below the current IV value over the prior 1-year. A high IV Percentile means the current IV is at a higher level than for most of the past year. This would occur after a period of significant price movement, and a high IV Percentile can often predict a coming market reversal in price.
- IV Rank: The current IV compared to the highest and lowest values over the past 1-year. If IV Rank is 100% this means the IV is at its highest level over the past 1-year, and can signify the market is overbought.
- IV High: The highest IV reading over the past 1-year and date it happened.
- IV Low: The lowest IV reading over the past 1-year and date it happened.
- Expected Move: The Expected Move and Percent Expected Move, based on the nearby ATM Options Series.
- Put/Call Vol Ratio: The total Put/Call volume ratio for all option contracts (across all expiration dates). A high put/call ratio can signify the market is oversold as more traders are buying puts rather than calls, and a low put/call ratio can signify the market is overbought as more traders are buying calls rather than puts.
- Today's Volume: The total volume for all option contracts (across all expiration dates) traded during the current session.
- Volume Avg (30-Day): The average volume for all option contracts (across all expiration dates) for the last 30-days.
- Put/Call OI Ratio: The put/call open interest ratio for all options contracts (across all expiration dates).
- Today's Open Interest: The total open interest for all option contracts (across all expiration dates).
- Open Int (30-Day): The average total open interest for all option contracts (across all expiration dates) for the last 30 days.
- Expected Range: The lowest to highest expected move based on the nearby ATM Options Series.
Fundamentals
- For US and Canadian Stocks, the Overview page includes key statistics on the stock's fundamentals, with a link to see more.
- Market Cap: capitalization or market value of a stock is simply the market value of all outstanding shares. It is computed by multiplying the market price by the number of outstanding shares. For example, a publicly held company with 10 million shares outstanding that trade at $10 each would have a market capitalization of $100 million.
- Shares Outstanding: Common shares outstanding as reported by the company on the 10-Q or 10-K.
- Annual Sales: The annual sales, expressed in millions of dollars.
- Annual Income: The annual net income, expressed in millions of dollars.
- 60-Month Beta: Coefficient that measures the volatility of a stock's returns relative to the market (S&P 500). It is based on a 60-month historical regression of the return on the stock onto the return on the S&P 500.
- Price/Sales: Latest closing price divided by the last 12 months of revenue/sales per share.
- Price/Cash Flow: Latest closing price divided by the last 12 months revenue/cash flow per share.
- Price/Book: A financial ratio used to compare a company's current market price to its book value.
- Price/Earnings: Latest closing price divided by the earnings-per-share based on the trailing 12 months. Companies with negative earnings receive an "NE."
- Earnings Per Share: The trailing 12 months EPS from total operations is the bottom line income after all expenses, divided by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. For example, if a company has $10 million in net income and 10 million in outstanding shares, then its EPS is $1.
- Most Recent Earnings: The amount of latest Earnings Per Share (EPS) paid out to shareholders and the date paid. Most Recent Earnings figures are based on Non-GAAP income from continuing operations.
- Next Earnings Date: The next reported earnings date, or the latest earnings date as reported by the company (if no future date has been released). Stocks whose Next Earnings Date falls within the next 28 days are highlighted in red. In addition, we indicate whether earnings are released Before Market Open (BMO), After Market Close (AMC), and in the case where no time is announced, you will see this labeled as (--).
- Annual Dividend Rate: The annual dividend amount paid over the past year.
- Annual Dividend Yield: The dividend yield based on the annual dividend paid over the past year.
- Annual Dividend Rate (Fwd): The annual forward looking dividend amount to be paid, based on the most recent declared dividend.
- Annual Dividend Yield (Fwd): The dividend yield based on the most recent declared dividend.
- Most Recent Dividend: The most recent dividend paid and the most recent ex-dividend date.
- Sectors: Links to the Industry Groups and/or SIC codes in which the stock is found.
Business Summary
Provides a general description of the business conducted by this company.
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