- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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The value of a regulated public utility and its operations as defined by its regulators and on which the company is allowed to earn a particular rate of return.
Industry:Financial services
Indicator of profitability. Determined by dividing net income for the past 12 months by total average assets. Result is shown as a percentage. ROA can be decomposed into return on sales (net income/sales) multiplied by asset utilization (sales/assets).
Industry:Financial services
A person registered with the CFTC who is employed by and solicits business for a commission house or futures commission merchant.
Industry:Financial services
A partnership whose investors put up money to finance new product R&D in return for profits generated from the products.
Industry:Financial services
A provision governing a municipal revenue project financed by a revenue bond issue, which establishes the rates to be charged users of the new facility.
Industry:Financial services
Indicator of profitability of the firm's capital investments. Determined by dividing Earnings Before Interest and Taxes by (capital employed plus short-term loans minus intangible assets). The idea is that this ratio should at least be greater than the cost of borrowing.
Industry:Financial services
A reoffering of a large block of securities, previously publicly issued, by the holder of a large portion of some corporation through an investment firm.
Industry:Financial services
Square of the correlation coefficient. The proportion of the variability in one series that can be explained by the variability of one or more other series a regression model. A measure of the quality of fit. 100% R-square means perfect predictability.
Industry:Financial services
The office in an institutional investing organizations that analyzes markets and securities.
Industry:Financial services
