- Industria: Financial services
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A benefit granted by a corporation that allows employees to purchase shares at a discount price.
Industry:Financial services
An analysis of the qualities of a company that cannot be measured concretely, such as management quality or employee morale.
Industry:Financial services
Traditional analysis of firm-specific prospects for future earnings. It may be based on data collected by the analysts, there is no formal quantitative framework used to generate projections.
Industry:Financial services
The distribution, by type of asset, of a portfolio's holdings.
Industry:Financial services
Method of accounting for a merger that treats the acquirer as having purchased the assets and assumed the liabilities of the acquiree, which are then written up or down to their respective fair market values. The difference between the purchase price and the net assets acquired is attributed to goodwill.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. The beta of a portfolio is the weighted sum of the individual asset betas, According to the proportions of the investments in the portfolio. E.g., if 50% of the money is in stock A with a beta of 2.00, and 50% of the money is in stock B with a beta of 1.00,the portfolio beta is 1.50. Portfolio beta describes relative volatilityof an individual securities portfolio, taken as a whole, as measured by the individual stock betas of the securities making it up. A beta of 1.05 relative to the S&P 500 implies that if the S&P's excess return increases by 10% the portfolio is expected to increase by 10.5%.
Industry:Financial services
Used in connection with project financing; an agreement to purchase a specific amount of project output per period.
Industry:Financial services
