Students Education
These are third party FAQs that help investors and students alike to understand the investing world better
Are you one of those investors who doesn't look at how a company accounts for its inventory? For many companies, inventory represents a large (if not t...
Tue, 10 Jul, 2018 at 11:15 AM
Compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, is the mean annual growth rate of an investment over a specified period of time longer than one year. It represents on...
Tue, 10 Jul, 2018 at 11:31 AM
Which annual investment return would you prefer to earn: 9% or 10%? All things being equal, of course, anyone would rather earn 10% rather than 9%. But whe...
Tue, 10 Jul, 2018 at 11:38 AM
There are several reasons why corporations, or more specifically their management teams, care about their company's stock price and want it to perform ...
Tue, 10 Jul, 2018 at 11:45 AM
Working capital, also known as net working capital, is the difference between a company’s current assets, like cash, accounts receivable (customers’ unpaid ...
Tue, 10 Jul, 2018 at 11:55 AM
Return on equity (ROE) is a ratio that provides investors with insight into how efficiently a company (or more specifically, its management team) is handlin...
Tue, 10 Jul, 2018 at 12:07 PM
Return on equity (ROE) is a closely-watched number among knowledgeable investors. It is a strong measure of how well a company's management creates val...
Tue, 10 Jul, 2018 at 12:14 PM
Return on equity (ROE) and return on capital (ROC) measure very similar concepts, but with a slight difference in the underlying formulas. Both measures are...
Tue, 10 Jul, 2018 at 12:19 PM
Enterprise value and market capitalization (also known as market cap) each measure a company's market value. The two calculations are not identical, an...
Tue, 10 Jul, 2018 at 12:28 PM
The meanings of "big cap" and "small cap" are generally understood by their names: big-cap stocks are shares of larger companies and sma...
Tue, 10 Jul, 2018 at 12:37 PM