Company Stats
The total money a company generates from selling its products or services before expenses.
What is revenue?
The total money a company generates from selling its products or services before expenses.
What is revenue?
These professionals advise companies on mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, and raising capital.
Who are investment bankers?
This annual SEC filing gives investors a detailed look at a public company's business, risks, and financial results.
What is a 10-K?
Buying shares of many different companies to reduce company-specific risk is called this.
What is diversification?
This figure tells investors how much profit a company earned for each share outstanding.
What is EPS, or earnings per share?
This is what remains after all expenses are subtracted from revenue.
What is net income?
These professionals help individuals or families manage investments, plan for retirement, and make other long-term financial decisions.
Who are financial advisors / wealth managers?
When management tells investors what it expects future revenue or earnings to be, it is providing this.
What is guidance?
An investor who borrows shares, sells them, and hopes to buy them back at a lower price is doing this.
What is short selling?
This common ratio divides a company's stock price by its earnings per share.
What is the P/E ratio?
This percentage measures how much revenue remains after the direct costs of producing a company's products or services.
What is gross margin?
These firms generally buy significant or controlling stakes in established companies, often using borrowed money, and later attempt to sell them for a profit.
What is private equity?
The average forecast from Wall Street analysts for a company’s future revenue or earnings is known as this.
What is the consensus estimate?
The difference between what an investor believes a company is worth and the lower price at which they are willing to buy it is called this.
What is a margin of safety?
This percentage measures the profit a company generates relative to shareholders' equity.
What is ROE, or return on equity?
Cash generated by the business after paying the capital expenditures needed to maintain or grow it.
What is free cash flow?
These investors typically provide capital to young, high-growth companies in exchange for ownership before the companies become publicly traded.
What is venture capital?
Earnings, an FDA approval, a new product, or an acquisition could serve as this event that changes how investors value a company.
What is a catalyst?
An order to buy a stock only at a specified price or lower, rather than immediately at whatever price is available.
What is a limit order?
Unlike market capitalization, this measure incorporates debt and cash and is commonly used when valuing an entire business.
What is enterprise value?
This ratio compares a company's debt with the amount of equity on its balance sheet and helps investors evaluate financial leverage.
What is the debt-to-equity ratio?
Unlike traditional mutual funds, these private investment funds often have greater freedom to short stocks, use leverage, and pursue complex strategies.
Who are hedge funds?
This valuation ratio uses a company’s expected future earnings rather than its past earnings.
What is forward P/E?
This valuation method forecasts the cash a business will generate in the future and converts those future dollars into today's value.
What is a DCF, or discounted cash flow analysis?