The current value of the stock,
pulled once daily using data from the previous day's close.
The historical stock price in the chart (found on the individual stock pages) grabs the stock
value at the close of the day on the given date.
The volatility of the stock, calculated at a monthly and quarterly intervals (the payout date) of the respective stock.
The volatility of the dividend payouts, calculated from the monthly or quarterly cash amount. This value takes all dividend records into account.
The total trade volume for the given stock in the prior month.
The total number of historical dividend records in the database for the given stock. This value differs from the stock history, as many of the dividend records do not have associated stock data, such as the stock value in that given month, or trade volume. I didn't want to discard the utility of the incomplete dividend records, which often include many more years of data, so I created two separate (and overlapping) metrics.
The total number of historical stock records in the database for the given stock, taken at monthly or quarterly intervals at the time of the dividend payout. These records overlap with the dividend records, but include more information, such as the trade volume in the given month, as well as the stock value. There are usually fewer of these than dividend records.
The annualized dividend payout for a stock,
calculated by adding the past twelve months, or four quarters, of
payouts. Where there are not twelve months or four quarters of dividend history, the value is displayed as a year to
date (YTD) value, meaning it is lower than the actual number will be with a full year's payout. If this is the
case, it will be marked as such next to the value on the stock's detail page.
I considered predicting the annualized return, but such a prediction may not be accurate and I didn't
want to include misleading data.
Because the annual dividend yield is calculated by adding the last years worth of dividend payouts,
there
are cases where the annual dividend yield will over-represent the stock's typical performance.
For instance, this can happen when a large outlier payout has been distributed within the last year. Use the dividend
volatility value, median APY, and the historical information in the provided charts, to
account for this.
The annual percentage yield of the stock's dividend payout. This value is calculated by dividing the current
stock price by the annual dividend yield. A few things to keep in mind, here:
To help account for the volatility of the Annual percentage yield (APY), I've included the Median APY value, which extrapolates an annualized percentage yield based off of the median dividend payout value over the Last year.This value tends to be more representative of an expected return, but isn't perfect, especially for highly volatile stocks.
This value is calculated by dividing the dividend yields at the given dates by their respective stock values distributed on those days. The percentage yields in the chart are not annualized, but still give an accurate depiction of the fluctuation in returns.
