Reading a company page, figure by figure

Each of the ten company pages has the same structure. This page defines the figures in the order they appear and shows how one of them, OGDC, was worked out.

The head of a company page

At the top of each company page: the code, the close of the session of 6 November 2026, the change against the previous close, and a bar that puts the close between the 52-week low and the 52-week high. For OGDC the close is Rs 312.89, the change −1.06%, and the bar sits at 65.6 of 100.

Every figure there is repeated in the table below it with a line that says how it is worked out.

Each row of the facts table

Close: the last price of the session. Previous close: as the source prints it (for PSX, the LDCP). Change: close divided by previous close, minus one. 52-week low and high: the extremes of the past year as the source prints them. Place in the range: (close − low) ÷ (high − low) times 100. Market value: shares in issue times the price, as the source prints it. Under those, the P/E ratio and the earnings per share by financial year, the circuit-breaker band, the free float and the XD marker are the PSX page's own figures.

A figure that a source does not print is not shown. Some companies lack an earnings-per-share row on the PSX page, in which case it is left out and not estimated.

The budget table

The last table on a company page divides six budgets by the cost of one share. It is the arithmetic of the budget page for a single company: whole shares bought, their value and the money left.

It does not include costs and it does not say a purchase at that price is possible.

Announcements and the P/E

Under the budget table, a company page lists the latest announcements that the company's PSX page carries, with their dates and titles exactly as PSX prints them. They include results, board meetings, book closures and dividend credits. The page does not read the documents behind them, so it states no dividend amount from them.

The price-to-earnings ratio is PSX's, on unconsolidated financials, and it is a ratio of the price to earnings over the past twelve months. It is a description of the price at the time of reading.