- Industry: Financial services
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A floating-rate note whose interest rate declines after a specified period of time.
Industry:Financial services
Earnings before interest and tax, divided by interest payments.
Industry:Financial services
Total number of shares of a security that investors have sold short and that have not been repurchased to close out the short position. Usually, investors sell short to profit from price declines. As a result, the short interest is often an indicator of the amount of pessimism in the market about a particular security, although there are other reasons to short that are not related to pessimism. For example, hedging strategies for mergers and acquisition as well as derivative positions may involve short sales.
Industry:Financial services
The theory that a large interest in short positions in stocks will precede a rise in the market prices, because the short positions must eventually be covered by purchases of the stock.
Industry:Financial services
A bond that pays a lower coupon rate for an initial period, and then increases to a higher coupon rate. Related: Deferred-interest bond, payment-in-kind bond.
Industry:Financial services
A source of competitive advantage that depends on being the first to enter a given market with a product or service.
Industry:Financial services
