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A realized gain/loss is reflected on the participant website, as “Realized Gain/Loss. An “unrealized” capital gain/loss (also called a "paper profit or loss") is an increase (or decrease) in the value of a security that has not been sold.
For example :
If a company owns an asset, and that asset increases in value, then it may intuitively seem like the company earned a profit on that asset. For example, say a company owns $10,000 worth of stock. Then the value of that stock rises to $15,000. On paper, the company made a paper profit of $5,000. However, the company cannot record the $5,000 as income.
This unrealized gain will not be realized until the company actually sells the stock and collects the cash. Until the stock is sold, the paper profit of $5,000 can only be recorded as an unrealized profit in the accumulated other comprehensive income account in the owners’ equity section of the balance sheet.
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The difference between realized and unrealized gains and losses. Realized income or losses refer to profits or losses from completed transactions. Unrealized profit or losses refer to profits or losses that have occurred on paper, but the relevant transactions have not been completed
Realized investment gains and or losses is the actual result resulted from selling your holdings in a particular investment. The unrealized gain or loss of such investment holding is a the book value of such investment at a specific date, after market close.
Realized profit are gains that have been converted into cash, to realize profit from an investment,you must receive cash.
-it's important for investors to deffereniate them
*For example if you owned1000 common shares of X Y Z corporation, and the firm issued a cash divided of $ 0.50 per share , you would realize a profit of $500 from your investment
-Realized losses can usually be claimed by investors as a capital losses.
*Unrealized loss occurs when a stock decreases after an investor buys it . but he has yet to sell it
