AT&T (T)

34.17 +0.33  +0.98%  May 31, 8:00PM Go Pro
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T Total Return Price Range, Past 5 Years

Minimum 17.84 Mar 9 2009
Maximum 34.17 May 31 2012
Average 26.11

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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T News

[$$] Leap Wireless to Sell Prepaid iPhone
May 31, 9:03PM The Wall Street Journal
[$$] U.S. Argues to Preserve GPS Tracking
May 31, 9:03PM The Wall Street Journal
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about 11 hours ago by LearnBonds
Sprint Bidding Adieu to Nextel
May 31, 5:10PM Fool
Google: Video Piracy Is Not Quite Child Porn
May 31, 4:50PM Wall St. Cheat Sheet
Cricket gets prepaid iPhone
May 31, 4:48PM AP
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May 31, 3:40PM Benzinga
$S is becoming a strong buy. Medium Target is 5.50 per share by september $aapl iphone 5 release. $vz $t $leap $goog
about 15 hours ago by Stockmonk
@Badbub I Sold more 30$ $SODA puts @ 1.40$, bought a little $SLB, sold some $T up 6.5$ a share from my purchase.
about 16 hours ago by enthalpy
$T My favorite stock and largest, oldest holding but had to sell a few hundred shares today to lock in some profit.
about 17 hours ago by enthalpy
Solid B/O attempt today after a decent stab at it yest for $T (LT acct holding). Need the upper BB to expand ^ now.
about 17 hours ago by 1nvestor
$T $WMT $PETM Impressive strength on over a week of otherwise bad tape. Stay away from T if the market recovers as it tends to flounder.
about 17 hours ago by TimBlazedman
Should Google, Verizon and AT&amp;T be held accountable for piracy?! Ari Emanuel &amp; Joshua Topolsky square off http://stks.co/436E $GOOG $VZ $T
about 19 hours ago by covestor
$T http://stks.co/435j Last day of the month - window dressing will watch - trailing stop - swing from last week video post
about 19 hours ago by Cousin_Vinny
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May 30, 2:44PM Wall St. Cheat Sheet
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May 30, 1:03PM Fool
The Point of No Return
May 30, 12:19PM
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May 30, 11:09AM Investor Place
RT @Street_Insider AT&amp;T $T CFO Stephens Warns New iPhone Sales Could Harm Recent Margin Expansion $AAPL/ Awesome more sales!
about 2 days ago by ArcanumX
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about 2 days ago by Street_Insider
Greece's Lame Tax Attacks on IMF's Lagarde
May 30, 10:57AM Fox Business
Early Glance: Telecom companies
May 30, 10:36AM AP
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May 30, 10:25AM Seeking Alpha
2 of 3 Best Performers in Dow are unchanged. $PFE, $T
about 2 days ago by frotuss
The top is near or here IMO $VZ $T
about 2 days ago by rg_trader
Dow Best Performers $WMT .12 $T .03 $PFE .01 Hey, that&#39;s awesome!
about 2 days ago by frotuss
$T New 52 Week High - Crossed daily highs resistance.
about 2 days ago by TradeIdeasQuant
Still a Bear Market http://stks.co/41vx $MMM $AA $AXP $T $BAC $BA
about 2 days ago by LouisEbner
$T http://stks.co/41WC Looking great .. with great div%
about 2 days ago by vjtweet
Telecom Services Domestic industry grp looks good for a nice trade. many names near 52 highs or making 52 highs $T $VZ $EQIX $CTL $TWTeqix
about 2 days ago by ajb_2010
$VZ http://stks.co/41PY new highs coming ...$T is identical chart/setup
about 2 days ago by Fernandinho
Political deals
May 29, 7:04PM Financial Times
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May 29, 5:14PM Seeking Alpha
Measuring Dividend Safety
May 29, 4:40PM Seeking Alpha
Sprint to shut down Nextel network
May 29, 4:28PM Financial Times
$T New 52 Week High - Crossed daily highs resistance.
about 3 days ago by TradeIdeasQuant
Top 5 Tech by 14 period RSI: $VZ $TRIP $T $BMC $CTL (S&amp;P 500) $DMD $AOL $DGI $CYMI $DDD (non S&amp;P 500)
about 4 days ago by TheEquitiesRoom
Some regional wireles looking better $FTR $S $SPRD as $T and $VZ showing some upper shadows (potential topping)
about 5 days ago by harmongreg
Updated. LT acct pos, $ hiding out here for now. However, looks good for a B/O over 34 if no pos $T http://chart.ly/emy3qqp
about 6 days ago by 1nvestor
Why Geotexting Won't Save Retail
May 26, 11:09AM Fool
Best Dogs Of The Dow Jones As Of May 2012 + http://stks.co/3zos + $T $VZ $MRK $PFE $GE $JNJ $PG $DD $CVX $JPM
about 6 days ago by DividendYield
Deutsche Telekom's Achilles' Heel
May 25, 5:10PM Fool
$T touching $36 by mid summer. Going long on T
about 7 days ago by jason77

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