- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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Indicator of a company's financial strength (or weakness). Calculated by taking current assets less inventories, divided by current liabilities. This ratio provides information regarding the firm's liquidity and ability to meet its obligations. Also called the Acid test ratio.
Industry:Financial services
A method for distributing the assets of an individual who dies without a valid will. The Latin means for each descendant.
Industry:Financial services
An instrument such as a stock or bond for which payments depend only on the financial status of the issuer.
Industry:Financial services
An arrangement allowing a firm to use research from another firm at no cost in exchange for executing all of its trades with the firm that provides the research.
Industry:Financial services
Return independent of the benchmark. The residual return is the return relative to beta times the benchmark return. To be exact, an asset's residual return equals its excess return minus beta times the benchmark excess return.
Industry:Financial services
Percentage that the stock price has to rise (fall) to double the price of the call (put).
Industry:Financial services
(1) The total amount of money being borrowed or lent. (2) The party affected by agent decisions in a principal-agent relationship.
Industry:Financial services
Time period an issuer is "in registration" with the SEC and may not promote its forthcoming issue.
Industry:Financial services
Balance sheet and income statement represented as percentages.
Industry:Financial services
Occurs when one person, an agent, acts on the behalf of another person, the principal.
Industry:Financial services
