acquired cost vs performance numbers

Sep 27, 2006 1 Replies

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.


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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