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This financial statement provides a snapshot of a company's assets, liabilities, and equity at a single point in time.
The balance sheet
This aerospace company, founded by Elon Musk, priced its IPO in June 2026 and began trading on Nasdaq.
SpaceX (SPCX)
True
This 2015 film starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt follows a group of investors who bet against the U.S. housing market ahead of the 2008 financial crisis by purchasing credit default swaps on subprime mortgage bonds.
The Big Short
This ratio, calculated as Share Price divided by Earnings Per Share, reflects how much investors are willing to pay for each dollar of a company's earnings, often read as a gauge of investor confidence.
P/E (price-to-earnings) ratio
In June of 2026, this Memphis-based logistics giant completed the spinoff of its Freight (less-than-truckload) division into an independent, separately traded company on the NYSE.
FedEx (FDX)
What major company announced stock buybacks exceeding $200 billion today (9/28)
Nvidia (NVDA)
This individual operated history's largest Ponzi scheme
Bernie Madoff
This Greek letter denotes a stock's volatility relative to the overall market. A value of 1 means it moves with the market, above 1 means more volatile, below 1 means less.
Beta (β)
This company got its start making glass for railroad lanterns and thermometers, later becoming known for Pyrex bakeware. Today it produces the Gorilla Glass used in most smartphone screens and manufactures the fiber optic cables replacing copper wire in data centers.
Corning (GLW)
This company partnered with Meta to allow "Muse" (Meta's personal artificial intelligence agent) to browse millions of stores and complete payments using fast checkout for customers.
Shopify
What is the name of the fund managed by Hamilton Capital?
100 pt Bonus: what is the portfolio value of the fund (within 5 million)?
The Dynamic Alternatives Fund
$405 million
This metric represents the cash a company generates after covering its operating expenses and capital expenditures, money left over to pay dividends, buy back stock, or pay down debt.
Free cash flow
Founded in 2003 with early backing from the CIA's venture capital arm, this company built its name providing data analytics software to intelligence and defense agencies for counterterrorism operations, and now also sells that platform to commercial clients across healthcare, banking, and manufacturing.
Palantir (PLTR)
Japan
Identify "the big 3" of HBM (High-bandwidth memory), RAM (Random access memory) and DRAM (Dynamic random access memory) chip production
SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron
This metric measures a company's core operating performance by starting with net income and adding back its financing costs, government obligations, and the non-cash accounting charges tied to its long-term assets, used to compare profitability across companies regardless of capital structure or accounting choices.
EBITDA (Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization)
This company manufactures solid oxide fuel cell systems, roughly the size of a refrigerator, that provide on-site electricity generation for businesses, and has recently signed multi-billion-dollar deals to power AI data centers, including a partnership with Brookfield.
Bloom Energy (BE)
What is the name of the SpaceX rocket that successfully reached orbit today?
Starship
This tech-heavy hedge fund went viral after a historic collapse in late July of 2026. The fund lost roughly $35 billion.
Situational Awareness