Investing Portfolio, certain symbol Day Gain/Loss % calc way off

BryanK
BryanK Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭
edited October 4 in Investing (Windows)

Today 9/3/2025, about an hour after the market closed I did Update/Quotes the Investing tab for my portfolio. All of the closing prices and Day Gain/Loss % are correct, except for a certain symbol BBDC (Barings BDC, Inc.) The Day Gain/Loss reported in the investing view is -4.48%, even though it is actually -1.37% (per Yahoo Finance and other market sites). Where is this incorrect Gain/Loss% coming from for this symbol? Error in Quicken's quote data source? Note: All the other symbols Day/Gain Loss % in the portfolio are correct, this is the only symbol with the problem

Best Answer

  • bmciance
    bmciance Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    Answer ✓

    I believe the issue is that today was the Ex-date for that stock. On the Ex-date the price is adjusted by the amount of the dividend. If I take what Yahoo Finance says the price was for yesterday - 9.83 vs the price for today 9.39 I get a change of 4.48% But if you use the unadjusted price it comes out to something like 1.88% Finance sites will use unadjusted prices to calculate daily changes. Quicken cannot (or at least does not) do that. You usually wouldn't notice this on many stocks but this is a high yield BDC so it has a bigger impact on the daily change. I have many high yield stocks and this is always the case. I don't pay attention to the Day change when it is a stock's ex-date.

    Quicken Windows user since 1993.

Answers

  • bmciance
    bmciance Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    Answer ✓

    I believe the issue is that today was the Ex-date for that stock. On the Ex-date the price is adjusted by the amount of the dividend. If I take what Yahoo Finance says the price was for yesterday - 9.83 vs the price for today 9.39 I get a change of 4.48% But if you use the unadjusted price it comes out to something like 1.88% Finance sites will use unadjusted prices to calculate daily changes. Quicken cannot (or at least does not) do that. You usually wouldn't notice this on many stocks but this is a high yield BDC so it has a bigger impact on the daily change. I have many high yield stocks and this is always the case. I don't pay attention to the Day change when it is a stock's ex-date.

    Quicken Windows user since 1993.

  • BryanK
    BryanK Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    Thanks!

This discussion has been closed.

Categories