Financial Abbreviations
This abbreviation refers to Earnings Per Share.
What is EPS?
This technology company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
What is Microsoft?
This HBO satire about ultra-wealthy vacationers takes place at a different luxury resort each season.
What is White Lotus?
This trophy is awarded annually to the champion of the National Hockey League.
What is the Stanley Cup?
This 1929 stock market crash marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is black tuesday?
This is what a company selling shares to the public for the first time is commonly known as.
What is an IPO? (Initial Public Offering)
This pharmaceutical giant recently became the first in its industry to hit a $1 trillion valuation, fueled by the 2025–2026 demand for its weight-loss drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro.
What is Eli Lilly?
John Summit worked for this big-four company as a CPA.
What is EY?
This NBA team has won the most championships in league history.
Who are the Boston Celtics?
This 2000–2002 market collapse followed massive speculation in internet startups.
What is the dot com bubble?
EBITDA stands for this full phrase.
What is Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization?
This semiconductor company designs GPUs widely used in AI computing
What is NVIDIA?
In 2009, this Tiger Woods scandal destroyed his wholesome image and causing intense media scrutiny and loss of endorsements.
What is serial cheating on his wife, which was revealed through a car accident? (will taking cheating scandal)
This figure skater won the first gold for the US women since 2002 in Milan Cortino.
Who is Alysa Liu?
This 2008 investment bank failure triggered a global financial crisis.
What is Lehman Brothers?
This abbreviation refers to the minimum return investors require for taking on additional risk.
What is MRP? (market risk premium)
This consumer electronics leader, the first to hit the $3 trillion mark, currently holds the #3 weighting in the S&P 500.
What is Apple?
This director of Oppenheimer also directed Inception and Interstellar.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
This tennis player holds the record for the most men’s Grand Slam singles titles.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
This 1987 market crash saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average fall over 22% in a single day.
What is Black Monday?
CAGR stands for this measure of annualized growth over time.
What is compound annual growth rate?
This healthcare conglomerate is the largest of its kind and is a Dow 30 component.
What is United Health?
Before they were global superstars winning a combined 12 Grammys, this Canadian rapper and American R&B singer reportedly dated around 2008.
Who are Drake and SZA?
This Minnesota Wild player scored the first goal for Team USA vs Canada in the men's Olympic gold medal match on Sunday.
Who is Matt Boldy?
On May 6, 2010, U.S. markets experienced this sudden intraday crash that wiped out nearly $1 trillion in value within minutes.
What is the flash crash?