Catching up
Article Abstract:
Shares in small UK companies have underperformed in relation to the market as a whole, but this is changing in Jun 1995. Takeover activity may also help boost prices on the London Stock Exchange. Larger companies have benefited from a rally starting in Mar 1995. Smaller companies began to show an improvement from May 1995, and have performed better than shares in the FT-SE-A index by a small margin. Their performance could continue to pick up during the rest of 1995, compensating for their previous sluggish performance.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1995
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No big hit in 1995
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Securities rise in May each year some 52% of occasions, but theyhave also fallen by a long way in other years, as happened in 1994. These falls offset the risesand mean that May is the second worst month for investors to buy shares. There have been fallsof over 5% in share prices in May in five years since World War One. Indicators are that thismay not occur in 1995 since prices have risen, but there was an execption in 1994 when shareprices were affected by fears of a rise in interest rates.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1995
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PE - no sweat
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Information on securities helps investors assess their desirability as investments, and earnings per share is a measure of net profit which is seen as more accurate than gross profit. The price of the share can be divided by earnings per share top give the PER or price earnings ratio. Dividend yields are the dividends or income which the shares pay, as a proportion of the price of the share. Companies choose what dividends they pay, and dividend levels are not fixed.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1995
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