A profitability ratio that relates net income to total assets. Return on assets (ROA) is a measure of profit per...
The earnings that could be obtained from an asset under optimal or normal business conditions. In other words, it is...
The rate of return on some risk-free asset. In practice, analysts use government bond rates as a proxy for the...
The proportion of preferred stock, at par, in a company's total capitalization, This ratio relates the par value of a...
In general, a refinancing position constitutes a new financing position that is taken rolling over the funds that have reached...
In general, a reinvestment position constitutes a new investment position that is taken re-using/ re-deploying the funds freed up from...
It stands for sustainable growth rate; the rate at which a company can organically expand without having to change its...
The ratio of unexpected earnings (or earnings surprise) to the standard deviation of analysts' earnings forecasts. This ratio is used...
A hypothesis which maintains that the stock of small-capitalization firms tends to outperform the stock of larger ones. This means...
The mean average of a firm's outstanding shareholder's equity over a number of averaging periods (usually five-month periods): In general,...