Maths and shares help please??

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Also what does Inst. Own mean?

Answer 1

"Inst. Own" probably stands for "institutionally owned", which means the percentage of shares owned by mutual funds and pension funds, and not individual investors.

Nasdaq reports its prices in dollars.

Any financial website will have the income statements of companies. Here is Yahoo's information on E*Trade. Inc.: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ETFC. Many companies pay a portion of their profits as "dividends". If you own 1% of the company, then you would get 1% of the dividends that they pay.