Sharesight Help Centre

Introduction

A Share Details Page is automatically generated for every company as soon as you add that company’s shares to your portfolio. The Share Details Page contains additional information that is not available on the Overview Page.

Note that return figures on the Share Details Page relate to currently held shares only, sold shares are reported separately in the Sold Shares Report.

Title Bar

The Title Bar gives the name of the share, the quantity owned and the current share price along with the Current Value, Total Return and Total Return p.a.

Current Value is the value of the shareholding based on today’s share prices.

Total Return is the total return in $ that has been achieved to date on currently held shares. It includes capital gains, dividends received and allows for the impact of currency movement if it is an overseas share. It is calculated since the first purchase date recorded for the share.

Total return p.a. is the annualised percentage return that has been achieved on currently held shares. If more than one buy transaction has occurred, a weighted average formula is used to perform the calculation.

Next Share Button

Click the Next Share button to skip to the share details page for the next share in your portfolio. Click the down arrow next to the share details button to reveal a drop down list of all shares in your portfolio. This provides a quick way navigate between the Share Details page for each share without having to return to the Overview Screen.

Show Performance Selector

The Show Performance Selector allows you to choose the time period over which you wish to see the returns calculated and indicate whether you wish to view returns in $ or as a % p.a. The selection criteria applies to the Summary Bar.

Summary Bar

Using the Summary Bar you can see the contribution made by capital gains, dividends and currency movement. The graph plots the performance of the share against either the NZX50 or ASX200 depending on the origin of the share. Symbols on the graph mark corporate action events as follows:
Dividend Payment
Bonus Issue
Share Cancellation
Share Consolidation
Share Split

Transactions Table

The Transactions Table is where all your sale and purchase transactions related to a particular shareholding are recorded. To record a new sale or purchase of shares click the ‘Enter a New Trade’ button to be taken to the Enter New Trade Form. To edit a trade click the appropriate row item to be taken to the Edit Trade Form.

Automatic Trades are indicated by the magic wand icon []. Automatic Trades are recorded for you by Sharesight without any action on your part. Automatic trades are recorded to adjust your shareholding to compensate for corporate action events such as splits, consolidations, cancellations and bonus issues.

The Notes icon [] indicates that notes have been recorded about the transaction. Notes are automatically recorded for automatic trades. To add or edit notes, click the appropriate row item to be taken to the Edit Trade Form.

Dividends Table

The Dividends Table is where all your dividends related to a particular shareholding are recorded. By default dividends are shown for the last financial year, however you may view past dividend payments by clicking the ‘show archived dividends’ link

Dividends are automatically entered for you by Sharesight. Automatically entered dividends are indicated by the magic wand icon []. To edit a dividend click the appropriate row item to be taken to the Edit Dividend Form. To record a new dividend manually, click the ‘Enter a New Dividend’ button to be taken to the Enter New Dividend Form.

Note: It is important that you check all automatic dividends for accuracy as they are included in your Taxable Income report. Sharesight relies on third party vendors for dividend information and we do our best to ensure that all data is as accurate as possible, however we are not responsible for missing or inaccurate data.

The Notes icon [] indicates that notes have been recorded about the dividend. Notes are automatically recorded for automatic dividends. To add or edit notes, click the appropriate row item to be taken to the Edit Dividend Form.

Analytics

The Analytics section shows common figures used to analyse share performance such as Earnings per share (EPS), Net tangible assets (NTA), and Price/Earnings (P/E)

Corporate Actions

The corporate actions section shows a list of corporate actions that have occurred during the period that you have owned the share. The corporate actions are listed in date order, with the date being the date that the corporate action was announced. You can click on the underlined word in each corporate action to see more detail. By default the list is limited to the last five corporate actions, if you wish to see all corporate actions for the share click on ‘Show archived actions’.

Most corporate actions are handled by Sharesight automatically as discussed above. If a corporate actions has been automatically recorded for you by Sharesight this is indicated by the magic wand icon [] in the corporate actions list.

You can check through the Corporate Actions for transactions that should be entered on your share Details page but have not been automatically entered by Sharesight. For example there may be details of Rights issues that Sharesight cannot enter automatically because it depends on what action you decided to take with regard to the Rights. You can click on ‘Add a new Trade’ to add these yourself.

Options

The options section displays optional settings relating to the portfolio. The following options are available:
Dividend Reinvestment Plan