Fun Finance Formulas
Equity Value + Debt + Preferred Stock + Minority Interest − Cash and Equivalents
What is enterprise value?
Brown alum and now CEO of a bulge bracket
Who is Brian Moynihan?
The GOAT Alexander Fleming's creation
What is penicillin?
Founder of modern nursing
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Famous for consumer products like Band-Aids and Tylenol
What is Johnson & Johnson?
E[Rᵢ] = r_f + βᵢ (E[R_m] − r_f)
What is CAPM?
Name 4 investing clubs at Brown
What is BHIG, BIG, SRIF, BDIG...?
Hormone is life-saving therapy for type 1 diabetes
What is insulin?
Current head of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Who is Dr. Oz?
Large, controversial US health insurer
What is UnitedHealth?
(E/ E+D) r_e + (D/ E+D) r_d (1 − T)
What is WACC?
Winner of 2025 Nobel prize in economics, and on what topic
Who is Peter Howitt, and what is creative destruction?
GLP-1 receptor agonist used for type 2 diabetes and weight loss
What is ozempic/wegovy?
Father of modern medicine (long time ago)
Who is Hippocrates?
Danish leader behind Ozempic/Wegovy
What is Novo Nordisk?
C-P=S-PV(K)
What is put-call parity?
Brown endowment size ($)
What is $7.2 billion (also accept 7 billion)?
World's best-selling pharmaceutical, an immunotherapy
What is keytruda?
Any head, former or current, of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Who is Anthony Fauci (or check wikipedia for more)?
Spun out of Abbott in 2013, this pharma company’s blockbuster Humira defined the biosimilar era
What is AbbVie?
(E[R_p] − r_f) / σ_p
What is the Sharpe ratio?
Name all 7 finance (financial econ) courses at Brown
What is investments I, investments II, corp fin, VC/PE, financial institutions, crisis econ, behavioral finance?
Famously treats autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease
What is humira?
Smallpox vaccine creator
Who is Edward Jenner?
Privately held EHR giant, based in Wisconsin
What is Epic Systems?