Calendar

Stocks Calendar

Calendar

This section contains information about a company’s events. You can filter events by time frame using the following options:

The events covered in this section include:

• Earnings Announcements: Displays the selected company’s earnings announcements for the selected time frame. This tab also identifies the period for the earnings announcements, the actual earnings, estimated earnings, previous year’s data, number of analysts, and the company’s revenue. You can sort all data columns. If teleconferencing is available, you will see a phone icon. Click the phone icon to open a window that is streaming live audio.

• Dividends: Displays the selected company’s dividend information. You can sort the data in the Dividend per share, Ex-Date, and Annualized Dividend columns. There is also a comments column. To view the comment, mouse over the comment, which triggers a hover that shows the entire comment.

The most recent dividend multiplied by a factor to give you an yearly dividend. For example, if a company pays dividends quarterly, you would multiply the quarterly dividend amount by 4.

First date on which the stock trades where investors are not entitled to that dividend.

The distribution of a portion of a company's earnings, decided by the board of directors, to a class of its shareholders. The dividend is most often quoted in terms of the dollar amount each share receives (dividends per share). It can also be quoted in terms of a percent of the current market price, referred to as dividend yield.

• Splits Displays the date(s) on which the selected company’s stock split information. You can sort the data in the Ratio, Ex-Date, Payable, and Announced columns.

Date on which the stock split is announced.

Date on which the stock split is paid to the security holder

The first date on which the stock trades where investors are not entitled to the split.

A corporate action in which a company's existing shares are divided into multiple shares. Although the number of shares outstanding increases by a specific multiple, the total dollar value of the shares remains the same compared to pre-split amounts, because no real value has been added as a result of the split.

In the U.K., a stock split is referred to as a "scrip issue", "bonus issue", "capitalization issue" or "free issue".

• Ratings Changes: Displays any brokerage ratings change that has occurred for the selected security. For example if Standard & Poor’s changed its rating from Sell to Buy for a specific company The date on which the rating was changed is displayed along with the brokerage company who changed the rating, the current rating, previous rating, and the price target for the stock are also displayed. You can sort the information in all of these columns.

A projected price level as stated by an investment analyst or advisor.

• For U.S. Stocks Calendar page only: The Guidance tab displays the date on which earnings estimate information is released, along with preannouncement low and high data. You can sort the information in all of the data columns.

An analyst's estimate for a company's future quarterly or annual earnings.

If you are on the Markets Calendar page and type a company name or stock symbol in the To Company Calendar … box and click Go, you are taken to the Stocks Calendar page for that symbol, with a link back to the Markets calendar page at the top of this section.