Following your shares
If you have splashed your cash on some shares, here's how to keep a close eye on those investments.
There are a number of ways that you can check the daily price of shares
- For a share price which is updated during the day, you can look on Ceefax or Teletext.
- The Internet has a wide selection of financial websites which offer share information and up to the minute prices.
- Most newspapers contain a financial section. They list information on the price of shares.
The newspaper will have a number of columns that give you information about the shares. Here's what all the abbreviations mean.
- Price This is the mid-market price of one share which is worked out at the close of business on the day before the newspaper is printed
- + or - This section shows whether the share price has gone up (+) or down (-) since the day before and by how much.
- 52 week high/low This shows the highest and lowest prices that shares in the company have sold for during the year.
- Volumes 000's This tells you how many of the company's shares were bought and sold on the day before.
- P/E This is the price to earnings ratio. It gives an idea of how much a share is making compared to how much it costs.
