Financial Statements & Ratios
This financial statement shows what a company owns, what it owes, and the value left for shareholders at a specific point in time.
What is the balance sheet?
This major Wall Street firm was acquired by JPMorgan Chase for $2 per share during the 2008 financial crisis, just days before total collapse.
What is Bear Stearns?
In February 2025, this Big Four accounting firm became the first to establish a law firm in the United States after receiving approval from the Arizona Supreme Court.
What is KPMG?
This measure calculates a stock's volatility compared to the overall market.
What is beta?
Seton Hall University is named after this person.
Who is Elizabeth Ann Seton?
This line item on the balance sheet represents profits reinvested in the business rather than paid out as dividends.
What is Retained Earnings?
This high-flying company, once led by Elizabeth Holmes, claimed to revolutionize blood testing but collapsed after fraud allegations.
What is Theranos?
i’m In March 2025, this central bank signaled it may begin cutting interest rates later this year, citing progress on inflation.
What is the Federal Reserve?
A high-risk, high-reward strategy that involves borrowing money to invest in stocks.
What is margin trading?
What is the name of Seton Hall University's official mascot.
What is The Pirate?
A rising value in this income statement line can indicate stronger pricing power or improved cost control, even if revenue remains flat.
What is Gross Profit?
In 2019, this state-owned oil company completed the largest IPO in history with help from banks like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, raising over $29 billion on the Tadawul exchange.
What is Saudi Aramco?
This cryptocurrency hit an all-time high above $106,000 in late 2024, driven by increased institutional adoption, regulatory outlook and new ETF approvals.
What is Bitcoin?
To receive a dividend, you must own the stock before this key date, which determines who is eligible for the payout.
What is the ex-dividend date?
This is the official motto of Seton Hall University, a blend of Norman French and archaic English that appears on the university seal. (Bonus points if you understand what this translates to in modern english)
What is Hazard Zet Forward?
Bonus Points: What is "Despite hazards, go forward" or "Move forward in the face of adversity"?
This financial statement item, often overlooked, captures the change in shareholder value from activities like issuing shares or paying dividends.
What is financing cash flow (or cash flows from financing activities)?
During the Dutch Golden Age in the 1630s, this luxury commodity became the center of what is widely considered the first speculative bubble, with prices skyrocketing before collapsing in a matter of days.
What are Tulip Bulbs?
This Japanese stock index surpassed its 1989 peak in February 2025, marking a historic recovery after decades of stagnation.
What is the Nikkei 225?
This financial metric is used to determine a company’s average cost of financing from debt and equity — weighted by how much of each is used. It’s often used as a discount rate in DCF models. (Bonus points if you can state the formula.)
What is WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital)?
Bonus Points: WACC = (E/V × Re) + (D/V × Rd × (1 – Tc))
E = Market value of equity
D = Market value of debt
V = E + D (total capital)
Re = Cost of equity
Rd = Cost of debt
Tc = Corporate tax rate
Seton Hall’s Jubilee Hall was originally named after this former alumnus and CEO of Tyco International—until he was convicted of corporate fraud and the university swiftly removed his name from the building.
Who is Dennis Kozlowski?
A company shows rising net income but declining cash from operations over multiple periods. This discrepancy may indicate the aggressive use of this working capital account to inflate earnings.
What is accounts receivable?
t they were twice Hart no no no LL time warmer so AOL the time was worth more than time warner and because they were an old media company they wanted to merge with AOL and within like a few months they lost like so much money. I think the CEO we did it ended up losing like $1 billion months net worth and it was like it was like tragic. It was a terrible merger cause the Internet became better and no one wanted AOL anymore so they spent a lot of money. This massive merger in the year 2000; between a media company and an internet provider became one of the most infamous failures in corporate history.
What is AOL and Time Warner?
tThis energy giant announced a $60 billion merger with Pioneer Natural Resources in late 2024, creating one of the largest shale producers in the U.S.
What is ExxonMobil?
This term refers to the spread between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for a stock.
What is the bid-ask spread?
Seton Hall reached the NCAA Championship game in 1989, what was the name of the head coach that led the Pirates on that historic tournament run.
Who is Peter John Carlesimo/P.J. Carlesimo?