| Getting to Know The Numbers |
This Price Performance table shows you the stock's percentage
price movements over each of five measurement periods: 4 weeks, 13
weeks, 26 weeks, 52 weeks, and year to date. Large percentage
changes, as shown in the second (Actual %) column, will obviously
catch your eye. But the other three columns are the ones that can
add important depth to your understanding of the stock's recent
performance.
Price
Performance
Period
Actual
(%)
vs.
S&P 500 (%)Rank
In
IndustryIndustry
Rank
4 Week
5.2
-1.1
71
64
13 Week
21.3
8.7
78
78
26 Week
54.9
19.9
86
83
52 Week
69.4
40.2
95
89
YTD
13.6
6.1
74
83
Note: Rank is a Percentile that
Ranges from 0 to 99, with 99 =
Best
Column three compares the stock's price activity with that of the benchmark S&P 500 Index. It shows the percentage point differential between your stock and the Index. Column four shows you how the stock performed relative to the average for the industry in which the company operates. This is a "percentile" rank. Looking at this sample, we see that the four-week tally is 71. This means that the stock performed better than those of 71% of the companies in its industry. Now look at the fifth column, which contains an Industry Rank. It shows a percentile score of 64. This tells us that the industry performed better than did 64% of the industries in the Market Guide universe (viewed from a different perspective, 36% on the industries in the Market Guide universe performed better).
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