The only value that these numbers have is if you buy. Buy and hold. The return on investment should be calculated by time not money alone but the relationship of time to money. Lets say you buy 100 shares a a penny = total investment =1 dollar. tomorrow its worth a dollar...next week it worth a dollar. Why? Nothing is new. OK now lets go a year from now whats the dollar investment worth? A hell of a lot more then a dollar. I don't know how much but it depends on how fast they provide their service. Now go out 2 years and 3 years and look back to when you bought for a penny a share. Silly isn't it. We are talking dollars per share and not pennies per share. So what the hell is the difference if you pay 1 cent or 2 cents per share. Not worth worring about is it. Look at the big picture over a period of time not the BS daily trading. The MMs make their bread on the spread and volume not the price per share.