How Company Returns Shareholder’s Value?
Dividends is a reward scheme, that a company presents to its shareholders. There can be various forms of dividends, such as cash payment, stocks or any other form. This payment is usually a part of the profit of the company. A company’s dividend is mostly determined by its board of directors and it requires the shareholders’ approval. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG) for the trailing twelve months paying dividend with the payout ratio of 0.00% to its shareholders. Currently it is offering a dividend yield of 1.01% and a 5 year dividend growth rate of 21.67%. Over the last year Company’s shares have been trading in the range of $21.40 and $29.57. Over the last year Company’s shares have been trading in the range of $21.40 and $29.57. The stock is above its 52-week low with 10.89% and is in the wake of its 52-week high with -19.75%.
Performance & Technicalities
In the latest week Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG) stock volatility was recorded 3.88% which for the previous full month was noted 2.95%. Meanwhile the stock weekly performance was subdued at -3.54%, which was down for the month at -17.83%. Likewise, the downbeat performance for the last quarter was -18.14% and for the full year it was -0.92%. Moreover the Company’s Year To Date performance was -17.03%. Now a days one of the fundamental indicator used in the technical analysis is called Stochastic %D”, Stochastic indicator was created by George Lane. The stochastic is a momentum indicator comparing the closing price of a security to the range of its prices over a fix period of time. The gauge is based on the assumption that if price surges, the closing price tends towards the values that belong to the upper part of the area of price movements in the preceding period. On the other hand if price drops, the contrary is right. For Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG), Stochastic %D value stayed at 17.62% for the last 9 days. Considering more the value stands at 12.38% and 12.02% for 14 and 20 days, in that order.
Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) closed at $94.31 a share in the latest session and the stock value rose almost 3.10% since the beginning of this year. The price to sales ratio is the ratio of the market value of equity to the sales. This ratio is internally not steady, since the market value of equity is divided by the total revenues of the firm. Its revenue stood at 0.20% a year on average in the period of last five years. Firm’s net income measured an average growth rate of 12.80%. Following last close company’s stock, is 1.94% above their SMA 50 and -9.23% below the 52-week high. A simple moving average (SMA) is an mathematical moving average calculated by adding the closing price of the security for a number of time periods and then dividing this total by the number of time periods. Its most recent closing price has a distance of 0.14% from SMA20 and is -3.32% below than SMA200.
In-Depth Technical Study
Investors generally keep an extensive variety of technical indicators at their disposal for completing technical stock analysis. The average true range is a moving average, generally 14 days, of the true ranges.
The average true range (ATR) was fashioned to allow traders to more precisely evaluate the daily volatility of an asset by using straightforward calculations. However the indicator does not specify the price direction, rather it is used first and foremost to measure volatility caused by gaps and limit up or down moves. The ATR is fairly simple to calculate and only needs historical price data.
ATR is counted for different periods, like 9-day, 14-day, 20-day, 50-day and 100-day. At the moment, the 14-day ATR for Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) is noted at 1.50.
