Glossary of Stock Market
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Takeover
A corporate action where an acquiring company makes a bid for an acquiree. If the target company is publicly traded, the acquiring company will make an offer for the outstanding shares.
Technical Analysis
A method of evaluating securities by analyzing statistics generated by market activity, such as past prices and volume. Technical analysts do not attempt to measure a security's intrinsic value, but instead use charts and other tools to identify patterns that can suggest future activity.
Technical Rally
An upward movement in a security's price following a declining trend. The movement is caused by technical as opposed to fundamental factors affecting sentiment.
Tick
The minimum upward or downward movement in the price of a security.
Top Line
A reference to the gross sales or revenues of a company.
Trailing EPS
The sum of a company's earnings per share for the previous four quarters.
Tangible Book Value
Book value minus goodwill and intangible assets.
Technical Analysis
An analysis of a stock or future based strictly on numbers. The method includes analysis of price patterns. Don't try to understand it unless you are a maths gold medalist.
Third Stage Capital
Capital provided to an enterprise that has an established commercial production and basic marketing set-up, typically for market expansion, acquisitions, product development etc.
Tick
The tick is the direction in which the price of stock moved on its last sale. An up-tick means the last trade was at a higher price than the one before than the price was at a higher price than one before it and a down -tick means the last sale price was lower than the one before it. A zero-plus tick means the transaction was at the same price as the one before, but still higher than the nearest preceding price. The tick becomes especially important when large market movements trigger the implementation of certain circuit breakers meant to stabilize the market.
Ticker
A ticker is a trading screen information display showing the current price, volume, etc of a particular stock, option, future, etc.
Ticker Symbol
A ticker symbol represents a particular security (company, option etc.) on the exchange it is trading on and is used to retrieve information about that security from that exchange. For example, the symbol ?f? on the New York Stock Exchange (U.S.A) will bring you information about Ford Motor Company. ?ONGC? will show you the information of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission on the National Stock Exchange of India. Ticker symbols can be used to retrieve information from a financial publication such as your daily paper's business section. Today, ticker symbols can be submitted to an electronic ticker quote retrieval system to find information about a particular security instantly.
Top
A technical analysis term meaning the stock price is going down from here.
Total liabilities
All monies owed regardless of how classified on the balance sheet. The best measure of a firm's total debt.
Trader
An employee of a broker/dealer or other financial institution who specializes in handling purchases and sales of securities for the firm or its clients.
Trailing Twelve Months (TTM)
The last four reported quarters.
Transaction Costs
The costs of trading securities, including the broker's commission and taxes. Commission varies with the size of the trade.
Treasury Bills
Shorts-term debt issued by the central government, sold at a discount and redeemed at full face value.
Treasury Notes
Debt securities issued by the central government that mature over a specified number of years.
Turnover Rate
Turnover is the relationship between the float and the average monthly volume of a stock. The higher the turnover rate, the more volatile the stock and the greater potential for wider swings in price (both ways).
Turnover Ratio
How often a mutual fund changes its portfolio holdings. 100 per cent turnover means a fund, on average, changes all the stocks in its portfolio once a year.
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