Glossary

High price traded over the last 52 weeks.

Low price traded over 52 weeks.

Possessions of the firm.

The difference between the best bid price and the best offer price.

People who are responsible for finding a buyer for a seller and vice versa.

The difference of cash generated and cash used.

Price at which the stock was last traded.

The addition of interest to the principal sum of a loan or deposit or the interest you earn on interest.

Weighted average of commodity prices purchased by a representative customer in an economy.

A type of bond or other debt instrument that is unsecured by collateral.

When companies distribute the profits or a part of profits to shareholders.

Location that moderates the "exchange" of a financial instrument from a buyer to a seller.

A place or organization that is involved in buying/selling or issue of a financial instrument.

Bonds with variable coupons.

The maximum level at which the stock has trades so far.

Fixed-income financial instrument with both equity and debt properties.

The rate of increase in prices over a given period of time.

Supply or distribute.

Someone who accepts money today in return for future cash flows.

Obligations of the firm.

An asset that can be converted into ready cash without affecting its market price.

The transfer of money by one party to another with an agreement to pay it back.

Shares of the company outstanding times the price of one share.

An order to buy or sell security immediately, regardless of price.

The risk associated with holding a portfolio that reflects stock market indices and indicators.

Price at which the stock was first traded.

Maximum total number of shares that can theoretically be purchased by an investor.

Tells us how expensive stock is with respect to the industry.

Something (such as land or business) owned by a proprietor.

Something that is issued again.

Determining the worth of an asset by comparing it to similar assets.

A profit from an investment.

Inability of a borrower to make payment in time.

The cost of borrowing money without accounting for the effects of compounding.

Physical property that can be touched and have a finite or discrete value.

The person in charge of the receipt, care, and disbursement of funds.

Representation of interest rates against the term to maturity of a bond at a given point of time on a graph.

Person responsible for maintaining books of accounts.

Conflict of interest between the owners and the managers.

The amount is the value available after the time period.

The quarterly dividend that was just paid out times four.

The stream of constant cash flow.

Annuity whose payment is due immediately at the beginning of each period.

Any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity.

The sum of number of shares traded divided by the count of number of trading days.

Buyers with the highest bid.

Seller with the lowest price.

An owner of a significant chunk of shares of a corporation.

When a company buys its own outstanding shares to reduce the number of shares available on the open market.

Someone who buys/makes bids on stocks.

A profit from the sale of property or an investment.

The particular combination of debt and equity used by a company to finance its overall operations and growth.

Collection of savings and checking balances, rather than just currency at hand.

The person responsible for carrying out all the functions related to finance.

An unsecured, short-term debt instrument issued by corporations.

Bonds that allow investors to either convert these bonds into shares or reinvest them into bonds of the same tenure at maturity.

Area in business dealing with the management of money for a firm.

The current yield is the coupon divided by the current price.

State of owing money.

Marketplace for debt instruments and securities.

The distribution of a company's earnings to its shareholders.

Total profit available for shareholders either as dividends or for retaining in business operations divided by number of shares outstanding.

The true interest rate on an investment or loan because it takes into account the effects of compounding.

The idea that the market incorporates all available information.

Market in which shares of stock are traded.

A method of evaluating projects with different life durations.

Date on which anyone who held a share of DAL would be paid that dividend irrespective of whether they owned the shares on the payment date.

An asset that has an underlying real asset attached to it.

A contrast that backs a real asset with future cash flows.

The value of something in the future.

Funds managed by institutions meant for large net worth individuals.

A time between the purchase and the sale of an asset.

Record that shows revenues a corporation earns and costs that it spends.

When private corporations sell shares of stock to the public.

Asset that lacks physical substance.

The amount you are charged for borrowing money, shown as a percentage of the total amount loaned.

Fundamental dollar value that can be attached to the stock that is directly attributable to its expected future profits and dividend distributions.

A proxy term for someone who sends the money to the issuer.

Legally binding obligations that are payable to another person or entity.

Assets that last for several years.

Minimum level at which stock has traded so far.

The sum of the present values of each individual cash flow.

Fund meant to collect money from individual or retail investors and invest it in several financial instruments.

Involves brokers trading with each other.

The right owners have to all of the assets that pertain to their business.

Company owned by two or more separate individuals in some ratio.

Time in which cost of the project is covered with the help of cash inflows.

The actual date on which dividend was/would be paid out.

An annuity that has no end, or cash flows that never stop.

When companies reinvest the profits into the expansion of business.

A collection of different securities that are not affected by business cycles in the same way.

The value of something in the present day.

The sum of the present value of all cash flows.

The principal amount is defined as the starting or present value.

When stocks move up when the overall market.

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The net gain or loss of an investment over a specified time period, expressed as a percentage of the investment's initial cost.

Assets that have an intrinsic value when traded in the marketplace.

Tracing the return for every dollar of shareholders or profit per unit shareholder equity.

Issuing debt at interest rates which are higher for comparable terms.

Difference of returns between a stock and a treasury bill.

The rate of return on an investment that has a zero chance of loss.

The estimated value of an asset at the end of its useful life on which it can be resold.

A graphical representation of the capital asset pricing model, reflecting the linear relationship between a security’s expected return and its systematic risk.

Someone who sells stocks.

Assets that have a life of less than a year.

A lump sum is a single cash flow.

The cash cost of a commodity for immediate delivery.

The gap between the bid and the ask prices of a security or asset.

Anybody with interest in the firm including shareholders, debtholders, government, suppliers, and employees.

A marketplace where stocks, bonds and other securities are bought and sold.

Periods of issuance of debt instruments.

Person responsible for an organization's short-term and day-to-day liquidity.

Total number of shares traded.

The average cost that is being paid by the company.

Where security prices are still explored before the actual issue date.