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Ultimately, what an investor pays for when he buys stock is a share of the profits that a company makes. But how much must he pay for the right to claim a dollar of the firm's earnings as his own? One answer lies in the price/earnings ratio, which is computed by dividing the closing price of a company's stock by its net income per share for the most recent twelve months. If a company earns $2 per share, and its stock sells for $34, its price/earnings ratio is 17. P/E ratios can be figured out by anyone with...
...Most important to investors, the Government in 1970 set up the Securities Investor Protection Corp. to pay off customers of brokers who go bust. S.I.P.C., which insures investments up to $50,000, already has paid out $9.8 million to investors who otherwise would have lost their money...
Sidney Lee, real estate investor and president of the St. Croix Rotary Club, believes that the murders will lead to a tightening of police and law enforcement. "I'd say things are safer now. I advise all my friends who call from the States to come anyway...
...worth more than $300,000, a slight cut from the previous minimum of $500,000. The SEC plans to reduce the cutoff point gradually to $100,000 by April 1974. Congressman Moss, on the other hand, wants to abolish fixed commissions entirely and have fees bargained between broker and investor on every trade...
Negotiated commissions would probably be a fiction for most individual investors. I.W. Burnham II, senior managing partner of Burnham & Co., a Manhattan-based investment house, says that "negotiation for the public is not in the cards" because the small investor has little bargaining power. Institutions, though, have plenty; they have already bargained commissions down an average 50% from the old fixed-rate schedule on the biggest trades. Many Wall Streeters fear that an extension of negotiated commissions would cause another wave of brokerage failures because rich brokerages would underbid weak ones for the all-important institutional business. Nevertheless, some major...