Current State of the Union
This AI-obsessed CEO has added over a trillion dollars in market cap to his company amid the generative AI boom.
Who is Jensen Huang?
This security gives you the right to buy or sell an asset.
What are options?
This ratio tells you if a company tells you how much-retained earnings are paid out to the investor.
What is the Dividend Payout Ratio?
This process allows a private company to raise capital by selling shares to the public for the first time.
What is an initial public offering?
This senior is betting on horsepower and margins, pitching a luxury car company for equities.
Who is Connor Tierney?
This strategy, popularized by retail traders, involves betting on short squeezes and momentum rather than fundamentals.
What is meme stock trading?
This asset class has an infamous inverse relationship between price and yield.
What are bonds?
Name three metrics that measure liquidity.
Current Ratio
Quick Ratio
Cash Ratio
Operating Cash Flow Ratio
This form of financing determines borrowing capacity based on the value of a company’s collateral, often using a borrowing base.
What is asset-based lending?
This underclassman got his Reddit account banned.
Who is Leo Malerba?
This measure of inflation is still being closely watched as it remains above the Fed’s 2% target.
What is CPI?
This asset class can be found in your morning beverage or on your wrist.
What are commodities?
This profitability ratio is heavily affected by a company’s use of leverage.
What is Return on Equity?
This risk refers to the possibility that a government may default on its debt obligations.
What is sovereign risk?
Name the last 4 Investment Club presidents.
Who is Peter, Cloe, Steven, and Sarah?
This type of bond has become more attractive to investors as interest rates remain elevated.
What are Treasury bonds?
Contrary to its name, this investment vehicle uses high-risk strategies in its portfolios.
What is a hedge fund?
This ratio indicates if a stock is more or less sensitive to market movements.
What is beta?
This process involves helping a company issue new securities to raise capital from investors.
What is underwriting?
This senior balances being a D1 athlete and the demands of investment banking recruiting.
Who is Kieran Donnelly?
This company built the Artemis II spacecraft.
What is Lockheed Martin?
This account is tax-deferred because you pay into it with your after-tax income.
What is a Roth IRA?
This ratio, popularized by Peter Lynch, is designed to incorporate growth into the value of a stock.
What is the PEG ratio?
This model is commonly used by investment banks to estimate a company’s intrinsic value based on future cash flows.
What is a discounted cash flow (DCF) model?
This junior secured a wealth analyst internship at Citi, but hasn’t been seen on campus all semester.
Who is Andrew Dekhtyar?