[Toddsterpatriot]

You must have meant to say Altria is up about 24% because with a 52 week low of 60.40, and a current price of 75.32 it is only up 20% on the year.

With your poor math skills, you must be a protectionist. Taking your own numbers, $75.32/$60.40=1.247. For a public school grad (I'm assuming you graduated) that's about a 25% increase. And if you want to be exact, you'd take the closing price on 12/31/2004 ($61.10) as your starting point.

Add to that a dividend of 4.2% [3.20/75.32=.042%] your barnburner year is up 24.2% [if this is your only stock]

Again, if you want to be accurate, you'd take the $61.10 starting price and use the $3.06 actually paid this year to get the 5% dividend I quoted.

Gold is up 267% in the last five years

You're killing me!!! Please show the math you used to get 267%. Snicker.

[Thomas Jefferson II]

Your right Todd. My fifth year of high school was all math, and I still do not get the numerator/devisor thing right. As for my gold quote of being up 267% that comes right out of Investors Business Daily [IBD]. Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR! I have to get back to trading the sh*t.