The Three Pillars
This is the bottom line, impervious to one-off charges.
What is the net income?
What is Reuters Connect?
This activist investor rides more than Elliot waves.
Who is Daniel Loeb?
Where mergers see these, employees fear job cuts.
What are synergies?
He played Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men
Who was Jason Robards?
It's the line item that includes training costs.
What is SG&A?
He was the CEO of Reuters and then Thomson Reuters.
Who is Tom Glocer?
Aside from capital appreciation, this is the return stock investors usually expect.
What is the dividend?
This is what you get when you take net income, subtract preferred dividends, and divide by the average number of outstanding shares.
What are Earnings per Share?
The location of this academy award winner is featured in the current spooky TV drama Castle Rock.
What is the The Shawshank Redemption?
This is the period after which short-term investments become medium- to long-term on a company statement.
What is a year - or 12 months?
This is the total amount in cash and shares that Thomson paid for Reuters in 2007.
What is $17.2 billion?
This is the cost of a company's funds, or, from an investor's point of view the required rate of return on a portfolio company's existing securities.
What is the Weighted Average Cost of Capital?
This is what you get when you multiply the price of a share by the total number of shares outstanding.
What is the market capitalization?
This financial journalist's works were turned into films about baseball, football and the 2008 financial crisis.
Who is Michael Lewis?
This measure of operating performance removes financing decisions, accounting decisions or tax environments.
What is EBITDA?
This former investment bank helped to found Bloomberg.
What is Merrill Lynch?
This is the measure of the risk of loss for investments, estimating how much a set of investments might lose.
What is Value at Risk?
This fearful term refers to the last hour of the stock market trading session on the third Friday of every March, June, September, and December.
What is the Triple Witching hour?
This former correspondent made his mark spinning spy stories, and said of Reuters “The training there gives you a good, straightforward style” he said.
Who was Ian Flemming?
It's market capitalization plus debt, minority interest and preferred shares, minus total cash and cash equivalents.
What is the Enterprise Value?
His efforts to take control of Reuters were thwarted in the 1980s by the founder share company.
Who is Rupert Murdoch?
This is what spells out who gets paid out first when a business is liquidated.
The total number of shares of a security that have been sold short by customers and securities firms that have not been repurchased to settle short positions in the market.
What is Short Interest?
Before being blacklisted in the hunt for communists working in the Hollywood film industry, he starred as Baron Paul Julius Reuter in the 1941 classic "A Dispatch from Reuters".
Who was Edward G Robinson?