Category: Business
Created by: Cherryhqh
Number of Blossarys: 2
English (EN)
The idea that creditors' claims take precedence over shareholders' claims in the event of a liquidation or reorganization. Shareholders are compensated only after creditors have been fully paid off.
A stock market index that is designed for the purpose of measuring absolute returns that are posted by an overall market of hedge funds as versus that of individual hedge funds.
Acquisition by one company of another where the acquiring company purchases the stock of the target company, rather than paying with debt of through some other means. Could be associated with a ...
The ratio of current assets less inventories to total current liabilities. This ratio is the most stringent measure of how well the company is covering its short-term obligations, since the ratio ...
The act of investors working in unison and making identical investment choices with the hopes of reaching a common investment goal. For example, two companies or two investors may come together and ...
A type of contrarian technical indicator that is derived from market forecasts with regard to the future course of security prices and is predicated based on the theory that when most advertisers ...
Equation used to compute the alpha of a fund. It is calculated as follows: [ (sum of y) - ((b) (sum of x)) ] / n where n equals the number of observations (36 - 60 months), b = beta of the fund, x = ...
