Why does google finance show different info to TD Ameritrade

[junii]

Hi,
I'm just looking at GE here http://research.tdameritrade.com/public/stocks/overview/overview.asp and it says the market cap is 194.2B but on google finance it says 204.77B http://finance.google.com/finance?q=ge

It also says on Ameritrade that the dividend is 1.24 but on google it says the last dividend was .31c. Anyone know what's going on here?

Thanks.

 

[roro123]

Not too sure but 0.31 per quarter is 1.24.
Goodle Finance also shows after hours trading prices so perhaps the market cap calculations are different because of that.

 

[junii]

Thanks for that.

 

[declanh]

Market cap is number of outstanding shares * share price.

Google finance shows the number of outstanding shares to be 10.50 Billion, whereas Ameritrade shows it to be 10.0 Billion.

That is proably the discrepancy - and it depends on who their data providers are.


What's a half a billion between friends anyway ;-)