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Dividend yield is the yield a company pays out to its shareholders in the form of dividends.It is a financial ratio that shows how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price. In the absence of any capital gains, the dividend yield is the ...

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Book value is a measure of what a firm's assets are worth after deducting for depreciation and other claims on the company, such as short- and long-term liabilities. In accounting, book value or carrying value is the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance. For assets, ...

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Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) is an approximate measure of a company's operating cash flow based on data from the company's income statement. It is calculated as follows by looking at earnings before the deduction of interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization:       EBITDA = Revenue - Expenses ...

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The foreign exchange market (currency, forex, or FX) is where currency trading takes place. It is where banks and other official institutions facilitate the buying and selling of foreign currencies. FX transactions typically involve one party purchasing a quantity of one currency in exchange for paying a quantity of another. ...

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Return on equity (ROE) is a measure of how well a company used reinvested earnings to generate additional earnings. It is viewed as one of the most important financial ratios. It measures a firm's efficiency at generating profits from every dollar of shareholders' equity , and shows how much profit ...

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A momentum indicator that relates price changes with volume on the assumption that the more significant the volume, the more significant the price move. The Accumulation/Distribution Line has been one of the most popular volume indicators over the years . volume precedes price. Volume reflects the amount of shares traded ...

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Price to Sales (P/S) Ratio is a financial ratio that compares stock price with sales per share (or market capitalization with total sales). It is for valuing a stock relative to its own past performance, other companies or the market itself. P/S Ratio is used in some industries as another ...

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The PEG ratio is a valuation metric for determining the relative trade-off between the price of a stock, the earnings generated per share (EPS), and the company's expected future growth. It is a ratio used to determine a stock's value while taking into account earnings growth. The calculation is as follows:       ...

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Money flow in technical analysis is typical price multiplied by volume, a kind of approximation to the dollar value of a day's trading. Money flow index (MFI) is an oscillator calculated over an N-day period, ranging from 0 to 100, showing money flow on up days as a percentage of the ...

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The gross profit is the total revenue subtracted by the cost of generating that revenue. It tells you how much money a business would have made if it didn’t pay any other expenses such as salary, income taxes, etc. The concept behind gross profit is to measure the profitability of ...

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