American Shared Hospital Services (AMS)

3.09 +0.03  +0.98%  May 25, 11:00PM Go Pro
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AMS Total Return Price Range, Past 5 Years

Minimum 1.00 Jan 5 2009
Maximum 6.052 May 29 2007
Average 2.800

About Total Return Price

Total return price is a theoretical price that helps investors look at their returns over time, accounting for both price appreciation and dividends received rather than price alone. It is the best way to calculate the actual returns on a stock over a period of time.

YCharts' total return price assumes that all dividends were reinvested and that no taxes were collected on dividend payments. This follows Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) methodology.

When calculating the return on an investment, an investor should look both at the changes in the value of the stock price as well as the gains from dividend payments. For example, if you buy a stock for $10, its price appreciates to $15 and it pays a $1 dividend, and you sell it, you have made $5 from the change in price and $1 from dividends. This $6 increase is your total gain, and your total return is 60%.

The total return price helps you to look backward to determine an equivalent price that you would have paid to get the same returns from a stock that paid no dividends (also adjusted for splits). Let's look at the previous example again.

Assumptions:
Price paid (1/1/01): $10.00
Closing price (12/30/01): $15.00
Dividend Paid (12/31/01): $1.00
Closing Price (12/31/01): $15.00

Your total returns for the year: $6.00 or 60%

Calculating Total Return Price:

12/31/01:
Actual Price: $15.00
Total Return Price: $15.00
The most recent total return price is always equal to the current price.

12/30/01:
Actual Price: $15.00
Total Return Price: $14.00 = $15.00 x (1-$1/$15.00)
The $1 dividend was 1/15 of the value of the stock, so if you could have received the dividend immediately after buying the stock on 12/30/01, you could have paid $14 for the stock and had a stock worth $15 because of the dividend that was paid.

1/1/01:
Actual Price: $10.00
Total Return Price: $9.33 = $10 x (1-$1/$15.00)
This is exactly like the previous problem. We received 1/15th of the stock's value on 12/30/01, so looking back we need to remove this value from the historical total returns price.
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AMS News

$AMS filed latest Quarterly Report http://stks.co/3phV
about 12 days ago by MarketBrief
$AMS filed latest Annual Report http://stks.co/39jl
about 58 days ago by MarketBrief
$AMS filed latest Quarterly Report http://stks.co/17MX
about 195 days ago by MarketBrief
$AMS amended latest Quarterly Report http://stks.co/ksz
about 216 days ago by MarketBrief
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about 1014 days ago by QualityStocks
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about 1038 days ago by TheLexColumn
News Volume Breakouts: $SHPGY (++) $ENR (--) $ELN (-) $JLL (+) $AMS (+) $MTL (-)
about 1230 days ago by marketoutsider
$ams looks primed for a move..volume picking up..if it breaks 1.55 could go. http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=ams
about 1231 days ago by kunal00

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