Yahoos Web portal provides stock market information for publicly traded companies. Go to finance.yahoo.com on the Internet.
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Yahoo’s Web portal provides stock market information for publicly traded companies. Go to finance.yahoo.com on the Internet. Enter the symbol for Chevron Texaco Corp. using the “Symbol Lookup” feature. Double-click on the symbol for the detailed market information for Chevron Texaco. Once at the detailed Chevron Texaco page view, answer the follow questions:
a. What is Chevron Texaco’s historical, trailing 12 months (ttm) earnings per share?
b. What is Chevron Texaco’s annual dividend per share?
c. What is Chevron Texaco’s closing stock price?
d. Calculate Chevron Texaco’s dividend yield, using the closing stock price from (c).
e. What calendar date is the dividend “ex-dividend,” and what does this mean?
f. What calendar date is the dividend date, and what does this mean?
A dividend is a distribution of a portion of company’s earnings, decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and paid to the shareholders. Dividends are given on the shares. It is a token reward paid to the shareholders for their...
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Financial Accounting An Integrated Statements Approach
ISBN: 978-0324312119
2nd Edition
Authors: Jonathan E. Duchac, James M. Reeve, Carl S. Warren