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stock price work out

Hi can someone help me work out my stock price in a company i work for please?
I have 25000 dollars worth of shares and the current price is 140.20.
Dont really know the calculation :/

thanks for helping

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  • AnotherJoe
    AnotherJoe Posts: 19,622 Forumite
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    Your stock price is $140.20 !! You wrote that !!

    If you want to know how many shares you have divide then divide 25,000 by 140.2 and following that, sue your school for grossly inadequate maths teaching and consider taking a remedial class.
  • Zola.
    Zola. Posts: 2,204 Forumite
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    Have you not answered your own question?
  • bowlhead99
    bowlhead99 Posts: 12,295 Forumite
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    The question doesn't make a lot of sense.

    If the current price of the shares on the stock market is 140.20 (dollars?) and you have about $25,000 worth of shares, so I assume you must have about 178 or 179 shares: because 178 shares times 140.20 for every share is a total value of $24955.60, and 179 shares times 140.20 for every share would be $25095.80.

    But your question wasn't how many shares you have, it was what is your 'stock price'? But then you told us the stock price is 140.20. So what is the real question?

    Do you mean: if the current market price of the shares is $140.20, how much did you pay to buy them? How should we know that?! Or if you have some option to buy them at a discounted price, how much will it be? Again, how should we know that? It depends on the rules of the scheme.
    thanks for helping
    Explain what you mean by your question and perhaps someone can help.
  • msallen
    msallen Posts: 1,494 Forumite
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    AnotherJoe wrote: »
    Your stock price is $140.20 !! You wrote that !!

    If you want to know how many shares you have divide then divide 25,000 by 140.2 and following that, sue your school for grossly inadequate maths teaching and consider taking a remedial class.

    Considering they're talking dollars I reckon there's a good chance it was inadequate math teaching (in the singular). Don't want to go confusing them any more than they already are ;-)
  • Aretnap
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    Or maybe the OP means that he bought $25000 worth of shares at some point in the past, and is wondering how much he would get if he sold them now. To which the answer is we haven't a clue, as we don't know how many shares he owns now, not can we work out how many shares $25000 would have bought in an unknown company at an unknown point in the past, possibly at an unknown employee discount.

    How many shares so you own and what do you actually want to know?
  • TheShape
    TheShape Posts: 1,895 Forumite
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    stock price work out

    For every percentage increase do 20 Press-Ups

    For every percentage decrease do 20 Sit-Ups
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