Re: "gain since opening date" by Cal
Cal
Sat May 05 15:02:25 CDT 2007
In microsoft.public.money, theorbo wrote:
>Hi. M06: Investing, Investing Accounts, "Gain Since Opening Date"
>
>Could someone explain to me what this means? For one investment the 'current
>value' is 385.34 and the 'value on 4/5/07' is 381.14 and 'gain since opening
>date' is 594.15. The $594.15 seems to not mean anything relevant to me
>because it's either wrong or I don't know what it mean. Where is this number
>coming from?
>
>This is an investment that I reinvest the quarterly dividend but other than
>that, there have been no transactions in the account.
If you add together 385.34 plus all of the dividends and subtract
what you paid for the original holding, what do you get?
I suspect you would find the Portfolio views more useful. If you
click Shortcuts at the top, you can add a Portfolio icon to make
getting there easier.
ChangePortfolioView->CustomizeCurrentView->PortfolioColumns will let
you choose from dozens of useful columns. I can only think of one
that is not even potentially useful. Since "don't think of
elephants" doesn't work, "don't use the '%Gain' column" may not
either. But I suggest you don't use the '%Gain' column. Gain is
good, as is PriceAppreciation, which ignores dividends.
Select each of the seven TotalReturn items, and click Add. Also
select TotalAnnualizedReturn. These will give a much better view
of how each of your investments have been performing. You can
reorder them by selecting one in the DisplayedColumns and choosing
MoveUp or MoveDown.
Dividend yield, Beta, Fwd PE, and many more are very useful. Memo
shows the Comment field from the investment details.
You can SaveAs when you customize a view to have a view named the
way you want, and those settings will not be changed due to
resetting or changing the original view.