Reading and analyzing stock quotes Interpreting Stock Market Data The Wall Street Journal is an excellent source of financial data for investors. The following table displays a portion of the stock quotations for stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Use the information in the table to answer the questions that follow. Of the three stocks listed, a retiree who lives partially off of investment income would be best off holding because of its . You can calculate that Realtime had per-share earnings for the most recent 12-month period of . If you had purchased 100 shares of NuMode stock yesterday at the last price of the day, you would have of if you sold all 100 shares at the last price today.