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Does portfolio proportion, when dealing with stocks, refer to number of shares or the value of the shares?

I am working on an investing activity where I have a certain number of stocks. I have looked up their current market price and calculated the total vlue of each stock. Now, I need to know the portfolio proportion of each stock. Will this be: #shares of ea. stock/total number of shares or value of ea. stock/total value of all the stocks? Thanks for your help!! Also, we have to pick a stock to make a mock purchase. Once of the questions relates to what the analysts say about the stock. It says that this can come from the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Morningstar, etc. However, when I try to look at what the analysts say at this site, you have to have a subscription. Does anywhere know where I can go to find what the analysts say about a particular stock for free?

Public Comments

1. Dollar value Without buying the report analysts information is probably going to be sketchy. You'll find buy and sell recommendations and price targets. And bits and pieces of information in news articles. Its the large institutional investors, pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds etc, who usually use and pay for the cost of the research.
2. It's based on the dollar value as jeff410 says. You can get some free information on analysts' recommendations at many sites including Yahoo Finance. For example, for the drug company Schering-Plough: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ao?s=SGP Notice you can see how they rate it (Buy/Sell/etc.) and summary stats on what the analysts as a group think it's worth. Of course, if you want ALL the details of the analyst reports, you'll often have to pay for them -- but not always. Another site to go for information is the Motley Fool CAPS site, where they track the recommendations of many analysts. Here is the URL for the "Best Wall Street Players" which includes analysts, fund managers, etc. http://caps.fool.com/Stats.aspx?sortcol=5&sortdir=0&filter=27<=player