When corporate earnings per share (EPS) growth is accelerating or decelerating from the prior fiscal quarter or fiscal year. Earnings momentum typically…

The estimated price-earnings ratio adjusted for the current level of interest rates.This is yet another variation on the P/E ratio.

The portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock. Earnings per share serves as an indicator of a company's profitability.Calculated…

The months in which a majority of quarterly corporate earnings are released to the public. Earnings season occurs in the month following the end of each…

When the earnings reported in a company's quarterly or annual report are above or below analysts' earnings estimates. Company earnings are watched closely…

The earnings per share for the most recent 12-month period divided by the current market price per share. The earnings yield (which is the inverse of…

A list of securities deemed to be available for borrowing in short selling transactions because their delivery is assured. Availability is usually due…

Aggressive competition that results in one company taking portions of another company's market share. A more aggressive company "eats the lunch" of another…

Purchasing stock not because you desire it but because you are forced to do so.Underwriters who can't find enough investors to purchase IPO shares are…

The date, declared by the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), on which shares can start trading. This usually refers to the date when shares become…

The net sum of all of a company's outstanding debt. In addition to standard debt issues, this figure will also aggregate and capitalize any payments that…

A line created from the risk-reward graph, comprised of optimal portfolios. The optimal portfolios plotted along the curve have the highest expected…

A slang term used to describe when one trader undercuts or outbids another's ask or bid by one-eighth of a dollar. This term carries a derogatory connotation…

Slang for large institutions that have the funds to make high volumes trades. Due to the large volumes of stock that elephants deal in, any investment…

A group or individual allowed to engage in financial transactions not open to retail customers. The Commodity Exchange Act outlines the requirements for…

Theory named after Ralph Nelson Elliott, who concluded that the movement of the stock market could be predicted by observing and identifying a repetitive…

An exchange-traded fund that focuses on the stocks of emerging market economies, such as Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe. The underling indexes…

A program that facilitates the acquisition and distribution of a company's shares to its employees. ESOTs are trust accounts with which a company can…

A stock option granted to specified employees of a company. ESOs carry the right, but not the obligation, to buy a certain amount of shares in the company…

A qualified, defined contribution, employee benefit (ERISA) plan designed to invest primarily in the stock of the sponsoring employer. ESOPs are "qualified…

A trust fund established by an employer on behalf of its empoyees, in which the company is the grantor and its employees are the beneficiaries. The person…

Securities that are owned by one entity, but subject to a legal claim by another. When an entity borrows from another, legal claim on the securities owned…

A broad class of ETFs that includes funds focused on oil and gas exploration, the generation, distribution and retail sale of gas and other refined products…

A category of stocks that relate to producing or supplying energy. This sector includes companies involved in the exploration and development of oil or…

An investment philosophy that attempts to amplify the returns of an underlying portfolio or index fund while also minimizing the effects of tracking error…

A ratio used to determine the value of a company. The enterprise multiple looks at a firm as a potential acquirer would, because it takes debt into account…

A measure of a company's value, often used as an alternative to straightforward market capitalization. Enterprise value is calculated as market cap plus…

A valuation measure that compares the enterprise value of a company to the company's sales. EV/sales gives investors an idea of how much it costs to buy…

A trading band composed of two moving averages, one of which is shifting upwards and the other shifting downwards. These trading bands are used by technical…

An additional dividend paid to eligible stockholders when their divided income is reduced due to a change the board of directors makes to the dividend…

The act of raising money for company activities by selling common or preferred stock to individual or institutional investors. In return for the money…

A mutual fund that invests principally in stocks. It can be actively or passively (index fund) managed. Also known as a "stock fund". Stock mutual funds…

An instrument whose return is determined by the performance of a single equity security, a basket of equity securities, or an equity index. In the case…

The market in which shares are issued and traded, either through exchanges or over-the-counter markets. Also known as the stock market, it is one of the…

A measure of the total market value of an equity market. The measure is calculated by taking the market capitalization of all companies in the equity…

A hedge fund strategy that seeks to exploit differences in stock prices by being long and short in stocks within the same sector, industry, market capitalization…

The excess return that an individual stock or the overall stock market provides over a risk-free rate. This excess return compensates investors for taking…

A registered trust in which investors purchase units from a fixed portfolio of equities, which are chosen and managed by a professional money manager…

A hybrid debt instrument that is linked to the equity markets. Equity-linked securities can be in the form of a single stock, a group of stocks or an…

Shares held in an escrow account and in most cases cannot be traded or transfered until certain circumstances like time horizon have been reached. The…

An exchange traded fund (ETF) that tracks other ETFs rather than stocks, bonds or derivatives. These ETFs track the performance of other ETFs which may…

The company or financial institution which creates and administers an exchange-traded fund. To set up the ETF, the sponsor creates the underlying index…

A type of special investment portfolio where an investor, with or without the aid of an investment advisor, invests solely in exchange traded funds (ETFs)…

Using one's ethical principles as the main filter for securities selection. Ethical investing depends on an investor's views; some may choose to eliminate…

One of two principal clearing houses for securities traded in the Euromarket. Euroclear specializes in verifying information supplied by two brokers in…

A term used to describe an IPO occurring simultaneously on more than one national market. A company may decide to offer stocks during its IPO on more…

A cross-border European stock exchange, originally created in 2000 from the merger of the Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris stock exchanges. In 2001 and 2002…

A negotiable security (receipt) that is issued by a European bank, and  that represents securities which trade on exchanges outside of the bank’s home…

A stock index comprised of companies related to the actress Eva Longoria. Some analysts believe that Eva Longoria has enough influence over consumers…

A slang phrase used to describe an investor who closes a position by making an offsetting transaction. An investor will eliminate his or her exposure…