- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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Federal or state tax placed on the sale or manufacture of a commodity, typically a luxury item e.g., alcohol.
Industry:Financial services
An increase in the earnings per share growth rate from one reporting period to the next.
Industry:Financial services
A firm's offer to buy a given amount of its own stock while excluding targeted stockholders.
Industry:Financial services
A company's profit divided by its number of outstanding shares. If a company earning $2 million in one year had 2 million shares of stock outstanding, its EPS would be $1 per share. In calculating EPS, the company often uses a weighted average of shares outstanding over the reporting term. The one-year (historical or trailing) EPS growth rate is calculated as the percentage change in earnings per share. The prospective EPS growth rate is calculated as the percentage change in this year's earnings and the consensus forecast earnings for next year.
Industry:Financial services
In the context of general equities, having sole possession of the customer order/indication; not in competition with other dealers.
Industry:Financial services
The process of completing an order to buy or sell securities. Once a trade is executed, it is reported by a Confirmation Report; settlement (payment and transfer of ownership) occurs in the US between one (mutual funds) and five (stocks) days after an order is executed. Settlement times for exchange-listed stocks are in the process of being reduced to three days in the U. S. The time varies greatly across countries. In France, for example settlements are only once per month.
Industry:Financial services
A measure of relation of stock returns to earnings surprises around the time of corporate earnings announcements.
Industry:Financial services
The difference between the execution price of a security and the price that would have existed in the absence of a trade, which can be further divided into market impact costs and market timing costs.
Industry:Financial services
En ledende selvregulerende organisation, som over ser overholdelse en bestemt sektion i loven, at NYSE, ASE og NASDAQ.
Industry:Financial services
En investeringsforening, der opkræver en salgsprovision 3,5% eller mindre til køb af aktier.
Industry:Financial services
