W. P. Carey and (WPC)

44.80 -0.77  -1.69%  Jun 01, 8:00PM Go Pro
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WPC Total Return Price Range, Past 5 Years

Minimum 13.83 Mar 3 2009
Maximum 48.41 Mar 23 2012
Average 27.47

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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WPC News

Services Sector Wrap
May 22, 4:35PM Fox Business
$WPC Insider Buy: $433K of stock bought by Charles Parente on May 15, 2012 http://stks.co/3srO
about 15 days ago by MarketBrief
$WPC is -5.7% down since open on unusual high volume and -7.8% down since close.
about 18 days ago by TradeBot
$WPC filed latest Quarterly Report http://stks.co/3j7V
about 25 days ago by MarketBrief
W.P. Carey & Co. (WPC) Tops Q1 Views
May 07, 9:29AM Street Insider
This Week&#39;s Dividend-Paying Winners and Losers: http://stks.co/33EL $SPRD $TESS $BBY $MR $WPC $HOTT $BTU $GOLD $KBH
about 71 days ago by DynamicDividend
W.P Carey Raises Distribution for 44th Consecutive *Quarter* -- Now Yields 4.9%: http://stks.co/2w3H $WPC
about 75 days ago by DynamicDividend
W.P. Carey & Co. (WPC) Posts Q4 adj.-FFO of 88c
Feb 28, 9:07AM Street Insider
$WPC is 5.4% up since open on unusual high volume and 6.6% up since close.
about 102 days ago by TradeBot
W.P. Carey raises distribution for the 43rd consecutive *quarter* -- yields 5.4%: http://stks.co/1Rai $WPC
about 177 days ago by DynamicDividend
$WPC filed latest Quarterly Report http://stks.co/122Z
about 207 days ago by MarketBrief
RT @DynamicDividend W.P. Carey now yields 5.8% after lifting payout for 42nd straight *quarter* http://stks.co/FG0 / $WPC
about 260 days ago by StockTwits
W.P. Carey now yields 5.8% after lifting payout for 42nd straight *quarter* http://stks.co/FFL / $WPC
about 260 days ago by DynamicDividend
Stocks yielding 6% as a result of last week&#39;s selloff: $AZN $CINF $EPD $HCN $HCP $MWE $NNN $OFC $WPC $WRE more: http://stk.ly/p4p5xm
about 300 days ago by DynamicDividend
$WPC http://chart.ly/3787vdr Yes @paulwoll it had only 170k shares today and for it a big day - could only trade small positions
about 317 days ago by StockTiger
WP Carey Raises Qtr Dividend To $0.55 From $0.512 $WPC
about 352 days ago by Benzinga
Out of $WPC @ $31.80
about 523 days ago by annveena
Started a position in W.P. Carey & Co $WPC @ $30.87
about 527 days ago by annveena
Another quarter, another nominal dividend hike from W.P. Carey http://goo.gl/A5HJn $WPC
about 541 days ago by DynamicDividend
$WPC: Davenport cuts to Neutral http://bit.ly/d1Z4vD
about 684 days ago by cbayna
$WPC: Davenport cuts to Neutral
about 684 days ago by cbayna
$WPC: Davenport ups to Buy
about 740 days ago by cbayna
$WPC: Dougherty &amp; Company ups to Buy
about 740 days ago by cbayna
$WPC good volume http://fsc.bz/361 #WORDEN
about 831 days ago by riotercero
Short $WPC
about 1107 days ago by TradeIdeas1

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