What does it mean when a stock out preforms the market?

Question

Why would it matter?

Answer 1

It matters to those materialistic people who are in the market to make $$

Answer 2

The returns on the stock (ie dividends and or appreciation of value) are greater than the market average of the same returns.

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

Let's look at the question from an American perspective and their Federal Reserve system. Those rates are published in various forms of media, such as Investors Business Daily. They have different time constraints as well, for people interested in quarterly or yearly results. So the current three month Federal Reserve (Treasury Bill) rate is currently 1.71%. That's a benchmark, or a milestone, however you want to look at it.

The daily rate is a simpler matter as the Standard and Poor's 500 can be tracked alongside stocks. Indeed, the term "market" can be all-encompassing, or innocuous, depending on what your case may be.

Globally, the "market" means much more. But having a stock outperforming the market is always a good thing.