Percentage Change, Not Price

Key term: percentage change

Two companies can trade at wildly different prices for reasons that have nothing to do with which one is bigger or better — it mostly comes down to how many shares each has issued. Comparing them by raw dollar price tells you almost nothing useful.

That's why Munymo scores matchups on percentage change: how much a price moved, expressed as a share of where it started, rather than in raw dollars. Percentage change normalizes size, so a company trading at a low price and one trading at a high price can be compared on equal footing.

Here's a toy example. Imagine Company X starts the day at $10 and closes at $10.50 — that's a rise of fifty cents, or 5%. Now imagine Company Y starts the day at $500 and closes at $510 — a rise of ten dollars. Ten dollars looks like the bigger move, but it's only a 2% gain. Company X actually had the stronger day, even though its dollar move was tiny by comparison.

This is exactly why a $2 stock can beat a $500 stock in the game. It isn't about which company is more expensive to buy — it's about which one moved further, proportionally, from where it started. Every matchup result you see is built entirely on this percentage comparison, never on raw price.

In the daily game

The performance figures shown for each company at the end of every matchup (like "+2.45%") are percentage changes — that's the actual scoring measure, never the dollar price.