STOCK MARKET TERMS
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- Value Stock
- stick from a company which has a low market price considering historical earning records and value of current assets.
- Divendends
- distruibutions if earning oaid to stockholders
- Investment Risk
- the unceratinty about the outcome of an investment
- Cycllilcal Stock
- a staock which is greatly influenced by changes in the economic business cycle
- Portfolio Diversification
- an individual who has a variety if investments tools to decrease risk.
- Common Stock
- units of ownership in a publilc corporation. shareholders have voting rights.
- Speculatvie stock
- a very high risk stock from a company with potienal for substanial earnings in thge furture
- Stock Split
- share owned by existing stockholders are divided into a large number if shares.
- Earnings Per Share
- how nuch income a cimpany has vailabke to pay in dividends and reinvest as retained earnings on per share basis
- Stock Certificate
- piece of paper a shareholders gets to represent thier ownership pf a stock.
- stock market
- a general term to describe the buying and selling issued by a company.
- Countercylical Stock
- Stok from a company which guves consistent recirds if returns even when the ecnomy is siffering becuase thier product is always in demand.
- Blur Chip Stock
- stock form nationally recoginized comapnies which dominate the indusrtryt often having annual revenue of $1 billion or more.
- Par Value
- The fuxed value stated on a perferred stock cerficate which indicates the divendends which wilkl be paid to share holders.
- Rate of Return
- the increase or decrease in the original price of investment.
- Growth Stock
- a stock from a company which has a consistent record of realtively rapid growth and earings in all enconmic condition
- Preferred Stock
- sgares which pay fixed divendends and have precedence over common stock
- Book Value
- net worth of a company
- Stock
- a share of ownership and earnings of a business
- Market Price
- the amount a willing buyer pat a willing seller for a stock.
- Income stock
- a stock from a company whcih pays higer than average dividedends becayse the company chooses to retain only a small portion of the profit.