Calendar

Markets Calendar

Calendar

This section contains information about company events happening throughout Canada and the U.S. For Calendar events concerning Canadian companies, click the Canadian flag . This is the default. For U.S. companies, click the U.S. flag . The events covered in this section include:

• Highlights: Displays top 5 events (based on market cap) for all categories for the selected date.

• Earnings Announcements: Displays all companies who have earnings announcements planned for the selected date. Click the company name to go to the Stocks Overview page for that company. You can sort the Company Name column by alphabetical order. You can also sort the data in the Actual, Estimate, Previous year, # of Analysts, and Revenue columns.

• Dividends: Displays all companies reporting dividend information. Click the company name to go to the Stocks Overview page for that company. You can sort the Company Name column by alphabetical order. You can also sort the data in the Dividend per share, Ex-Date, and Annualized Dividend columns.

The most recent dividend multiplied by a factor to give you an yearly dividend. For example, if a company pays dividends quarterly, you would multiply the quarterly dividend amount by 4.

First date on which the stock trades where investors are not entitled to that dividend.

The distribution of a portion of a company's earnings, decided by the board of directors, to a class of its shareholders. The dividend is most often quoted in terms of the dollar amount each share receives (dividends per share). It can also be quoted in terms of a percent of the current market price, referred to as dividend yield.

• Splits Displays all companies reporting stock split actions. Click the company name to go to the Stocks Overview page for that company. You can sort the Company Name column by alphabetical order. You can also sort the data in the Ratio, Ex-Date, Payable, and Announced columns

Date on which the stock split is announced.

Date on which the stock split is paid to the security holder

The first date on which the stock trades where investors are not entitled to the split.

A corporate action in which a company's existing shares are divided into multiple shares. Although the number of shares outstanding increases by a specific multiple, the total dollar value of the shares remains the same compared to pre-split amounts, because no real value has been added as a result of the split.

In the U.K., a stock split is referred to as a "scrip issue", "bonus issue", "capitalization issue" or "free issue".

• Ratings Changes: Displays any brokerage ratings change that has occurred. For example if Standard & Poor’s changed its rating from Sell to Buy for a specific company. Click the company name to go to the Stocks Overview page for that company. The company whose rating was changed is displayed along with the brokerage company who changed the rating, the current rating, previous rating, and the price target for the stock are also displayed. You can sort the information in all of these columns.

A projected price level as stated by an investment analyst or advisor.

• Economic Events: Displays economic statistics, such as unemployment figures, new home sales, or factory shipments for the selected date. The time the announcement is made is displayed, along with the month, the actual event figure, the consensus figure.Briefing.com information, and the previous figure for the event. You can sort the data in all of these columns.

Briefing.com provides independent, live market analysis of the U.S. and international equity markets.

The number that was estimated by a group of analysts.,

• For U.S. Markets Calendar page only: The Guidance tab displays earnings estimate information along with preannouncement low and high data. Click the company name to go to the Stocks Overview page for that company. You can sort the information in all of these columns.

An analyst's estimate for a company's future quarterly or annual earnings.

In any of the events, mouse over the symbol to display a small window detailing the company’s current share price, today’s change, volume and a chart of today’s tradin Mouse over