POM: "Dont you see that aegr only has 29m shares outstanding, compared to ariad having 185m shares outstanding?"
I think jesspro DOES SEE IT! Could it be that if you want to have a sense of how your own portfolio is doing, you just multiply the number of shares you own by the current pps? That's what I do (and before pom offers me some help, yes I also do see that:
"you take the company's market cap and divide it by the amount of shares that it has outstanding. that becomes your share price").
If anybody needs some investment 101 training I suggest you get in touch with POM.