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06/03/2012

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fundamental analysis
Definition
examination of a firm's accounting statementsand other financial and economic information to assess the economic value of a company's stock
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Dividend Discount Model
Definition
method of estimating the value of a share of a stock as the present value of all expected dividend payments
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constant perpetual growht model
Definition
a version of the dividend discount model in which dividends grow forever at a constant rate and the growht rate is strictly less than the discount rate
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geometric average dividend growth rate
Definition
dividend growth rate based on a geometric average of historical dividends
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rithmetic averdividend growht rate
Definition
dividend growth rate based on an arithmetic average of historual dividends
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sustainable growht rate
Definition
dividend growth rate that can be sustained by a company's earnings
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retained earnings
Definition
earnings retained within the firm to finance growth
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payout ratio
Definition
proportion of earnings paid out as dividends
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retention ratio
Definition
proportion of earnings retained for reinvestment
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DuPont Formula
Definition
decomposition. ROE=Net inc/sales X Sales/assets X assets/equity
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two stage dividend growth model
Definition
dividend discount growth model that assumes a firm will temporarily grow at a rate different from its long term growth rate
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CAPM
Definition
(capital asset pricing model) calculates discount rate formula on 195
DR=US T Bill rate +(betaXmarket risk premium)
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beta
Definition
measure of a stock
s riskive to the stock market average
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Ecnomic value added or EVA
Definition
financial performance measure based on the difference between a firm's actual earnings and required earnings
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RIM (residual income model)
Definition
method of valuing stock in a company that does not pay dividends
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CSR Clean surplus relationship
Definition
accounting relationship in which earnings minus dividends equals thechange in book value per share
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earnings yeild
Definition
inverted P/E
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growth stock
Definition
high P/E stock higher expected growth
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value stocks
Definition
stocks with low P/E ratio cheap compared to earnings
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when cash flow is higher then earnings, good growth is realized
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high P/S ratio indicated high sales growth
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price-book ratio
Definition
market value of a company's common stock divided by its book or accounting value of equity
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high price to book means it is worth more today than what it did cost
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efficient markets hypothesis EMH
Definition
hypothesis stating that as a practical matter, investors cannot consistently beat the market
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excess return
Definition
a return in excess of that earned by other investments having the same risk
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random walk
Definition
no discernible pattern to the path that a stock price follows through time
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event study
Definition
research method designed to help study the effects of news on stock prices
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abnormal returns
Definition
remaining return on a stock after overall market returns have been removed
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informed trader
Definition
an investor who makes a buy or sell decision based on a public information and analysis
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material onpublic information
Definition
private knowledge that can substantially influence the share price of a stock
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january effect
Definition
tendency for small stocks to have large returns in January
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NYSE Circuit Breakersq
Definition
rules that tick in to slow or stop trading when the DJIA declines by more than a preset amount in a trading session
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behavioral finance
Definition
the area of finance dealing with the implications of investor reasoning errors on investment decisions and market prices
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prospet theory
Definition
an alternative theory to classical rational economic desicion making, which emphasizes, amoung other htings, that investors tend to behave differently when they face porspective gains and losses
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frame depndence
Definition
theory that simply how a problem is described that is framed matters to people
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loss aversion
Definition
reluctance to sell investments after they have fallen in value. also known as the break even or disposition effect
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anchoring
Definition
tendency to fixate on a reference point
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mental accounting
Definition
tendency to segment money into mental buckets
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representativeness heuristic
Definition
concluding that casual factors are at work behind random sequences
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clsutering illusion
Definition
human belief that random events that occur in clusters are not really random
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limits to arbitrage
Definition
notion that the price of an asset may not equal its correct value because of barriers to arbitrage
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noise trader
Definition
trader whose trades are not based on meaningful analysis
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sentimetn based risk
Definition
source of risk to investors above and beoynd firm specific risk and overall market risk
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technical analysis
Definition
using past price data and other nonfincial data to identify future trading opportunities
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Dow Theory
Definition
method for predicting market direction that relies on the Dow industrial and the Dow Transportation averages
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Elliot wave theory
Definition
method for predicting market direction that relies on a series of past market price swings
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suppolevel
Definition
price or level below which a stock or the market as a whole is unlikely to fall
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resistance level
Definition
price or level above which a stock or the market as a whole is unlikely to rise
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expected return
Definition
average return on a risky asset expected in the future
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portfolio
Definition
group of assets such as stocks and bonds held by an investor
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lweight
Definition
percentage of a portfolio's total value investe in a particular asset
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investment opportunity set
Definition
collection of possible risk-return combinations available from portfolios of individual assets
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efficieny portfolio
Definition
a portfolio that offers the highest return for its level of risk
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Markowitz efficient frontier
Definition
set of portfolios with the maximum return for a given standard deviation
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systematic risk
Definition
risk that influences a large number of assets (market risk)
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unsystematic risk
Definition
risk that influences a single company or group of companies
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systematic risk principle
Definition
reward for bearing risk depends only on the systematic risk of an investment
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beta coefficient
Definition
measure of the relative systematic risk of an asset.
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reward to risk ratio
Definition
must be the same for all assets in a competitive financial market
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security market line
Definition
graphical representation of the linear relationship between systematic risk and expected return in financial markets
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mrsk premium
Definition
risk premium on a market portfolio
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CAPM capital asset pricing model
Definition
theory of risk and return for securities in a competitive market
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covariance
Definition
maeaure of the tendency of two things to move or vary together
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performance evaluation
Definition
assessment of how well a money manager achieves a balance between high returns and acceptable risks
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raw return
Definition
total percentage return on an investment with no adjustment for risk or comparison to any benchmark
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sharpe ratio
Definition
measures invesment performance as the ratio of portfolio risk premium over portfolio return standard deviation
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Treynor Ratio
Definition
measures investment performance as the ratio of portfolio risk premium over portfolio beta
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Jensen's Alpha
Definition
measures investment performance as the raw portfolio return less the return predicted by the capital asset pricing model
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R-Squared
Definition
portfolio or security's squared correlation to the market or benchmark
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investment risk management
Definition
concerns a money manager's control over investment risks, usually with respect to potential short-run losses
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value at risk
Definition
assesses risk by stating the probabliity of a loss a portfolio might experience within a fixed time horizon with a specified probability
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normal distribution
Definition
statistical model for assesing probabilities realted to many phenomena, including security returns
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