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acquired cost vs performance numbers Phil Schuman 09-27-2006
Posted by Phil Schuman on September 27, 2006, 5:23 pm
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I had a tech stock that I bought back in the 90's, and it went low.
Then Symantec recently acquired it.
Looking at the performance numbers,
they either were very skewed based upon orig cost / current market -
or if I just looked at "recent" perf, things are better.

What are different ways of handling this type of transaction
so that the long term gains vs the shorter term performance
are not so wildly different on the screen reports.



Posted by Fred Smith on September 27, 2006, 9:51 pm
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Don't buy stocks that go in the tank?

More seriously, what do you want Quicken to do? As far as I can tell from your
post, it's reporting performance accurately.

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Regards,
Fred


>I had a tech stock that I bought back in the 90's, and it went low.
> Then Symantec recently acquired it.
> Looking at the performance numbers,
> they either were very skewed based upon orig cost / current market -
> or if I just looked at "recent" perf, things are better.
>
> What are different ways of handling this type of transaction
> so that the long term gains vs the shorter term performance
> are not so wildly different on the screen reports.
>
>



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