Top headlines trending today on Tesla Stock Read ‘Will Tesla Stock Plunge To $125 A Share?- Yahoo Finance”, “Tesla Slices Prices On Models S and X, Stock Plummets – Yahoo Finance” “Tesla Stock Could Go Lower Than $10 Dollars One Day, Says Accipiter’s… – CNBC” An article published yesterday May 22, 2019 by Lawrence Meyers on CNN.com states, “Tesla’s stock is getting hammered today because of the company’s announcement that it is cutting prices on older model S and X vehicles. Merrill Lynch put out a note expressing concern that sales on those models have peaked and are losing market share to its own Model 3.” https://www.ccn.com/tesla-stock-crashes-wall-street-armageddon Other recent news that could be a cause-for-concern are the auto-pilot crashes that seem to happen every so often. The Tesla Auto Pilot Crash is repeating itself, where the cars are slamming into semi-trucks. There are plenty of die-hard Tesla fans out there, but with the stock continuing to plummet, Tesla’s future is starting to look pretty bleak.
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A Look Back at the S&P 500 Index
The total return of a stock index like the S&P 500, which is widely quoted as a benchmark for stock performance, is a calculation that depends on the change in the index, either positive or negative, plus reinvested dividends. Since an index is not an investment, but a statistical computation, however, the reinvestment occurs only on paper—or more precisely, in a software program. Rather than reinvesting dividends in the stocks that pay them, the index provider reinvests all dividends in the index as a whole. Total return on an index is calculated daily, though the results are more typically provided as monthly, annual, or annualized figures, expressed as a percentage. Capitalization-weighted indexes are designed to reflect the economic impact of companies with the highest market capitalization. Market cap is calculated by multiplying the number of shares
by the stock’s current market price. The majority of indexes are capitalization weighted, including the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite Index. Total return, as it applies to an equity index, is a calculation that reflects the positive or negative change in the index plus any reinvested dividends. Most equity indexes report their return two ways, one that is price return only and the other, Read more…
<div>A Look Back on the S&P 500 Index</div>
The total return of a stock index like the S&P 500, which is widely quoted as a benchmark for stock performance, is a calculation that depends on the change in the index, either positive or negative, plus reinvested dividends. Since an index is not an investment, but a statistical computation, however, the reinvestment occurs only on paper—or more precisely, in a software program. Rather than reinvesting dividends in the stocks that pay them, the index provider reinvests all dividends in the index as a whole. Total return on an index is calculated daily, though the results are more typically provided as monthly, annual, or annualized figures, expressed as a percentage. Capitalization-weighted indexes are designed to reflect the economic impact of companies with the highest market capitalization. Market cap is calculated by multiplying the number of shares by the stock’s current market price. The majority of indexes are capitalization weighted, including the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite Index. Total return, as it applies to an equity index, is a calculation that reflects the positive or negative change in the index plus any reinvested dividends. Most equity indexes report their return two ways, one that is price return only and the other, Read more…