My old online brokerage firm (recently bought by E-Trade) used to provide what they called a "cost basis" on their statements. This gave you a rollup per stock of how much money (include the reinvestment of dividends) had been invested in each particular stock. I found this quite helpful in evaluating each stock's position. Is this something that others use regularly when reviewing a stock's position?
ETrade does not provide this information on their statements and my rep there tells me it's not available on the website either (had looked myself first to no avail). Am I the only one that finds that information valuable? I was told to manually add all the dividends up myself from each statement to get the number.
How do others go about evaluating a LTBH stock wherein you are regularly adding to your position through purchase and drips?
Thanks
Rosalita
ETrade does not provide this information on their statements and my rep there tells me it's not available on the website either (had looked myself first to no avail). Am I the only one that finds that information valuable? I was told to manually add all the dividends up myself from each statement to get the number.
How do others go about evaluating a LTBH stock wherein you are regularly adding to your position through purchase and drips?
Thanks
Rosalita