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shouldn't a roth ira accumulate more than 1 cent of interest per month?
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the term 'interest' tends to be used loosely when discussing valuation of stocks.  especially when referring to iras which are generally the purvey of common-folk who aren't in the finance industry.  often it is used colloquially to include: using this definition (which is what i'm guessing your ira calculator is doing), your stock would have increased in value by a total of $26 over the course of 10 months.  still not terribly good (only a couple percent increase), but certainly not a couple cents.
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