Glossary
Investing and Financial Analysis Book of Reference
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Liquidity & Working Capital Ratios
Can a company pay its short-term bills?
5 terms
Debt & Solvency Ratios
How much leverage is on the balance sheet?
11 terms
Valuation Ratios & Multiples
Is the stock cheap or expensive?
10 terms
Profitability & Return Ratios
How efficiently does the business turn revenue into profit?
11 terms
Dividend Investing Metrics
How much income does a stock return to shareholders?
7 terms
Per-Share & Balance Sheet Metrics
What does each share actually own and earn?
7 terms
Cash Flow & Investment Analysis
Earnings power, cash generation, and the time value of money.
10 terms
Ratios
- •Capitalization ratio
- •Cash flow to debt ratio
- •Cash ratio
- •Current ratio
- •Debt coverage ratio
- •Debt ratio
- •Debt to equity ratio (D/E)
- •Dividend payout ratio
- •EV/EBIT ratio
- •EV/EBITDA ratio
- •EV/sales ratio
- •Equity multiplier
- •Interest coverage ratio
- •Inventory turnover ratio
- •Net debt/EBITDA ratio
- •Net working capital
- •PEG ratio
- •Price to book ratio (P/B)
- •Price to earnings ratio (P/E)
- •Price to sales ratio (P/S)
- •Quick ratio
- •Retention ratio
- •Return on assets (ROA)
- •Return on capital employed (ROCE)
- •Return on equity (ROE)
- •Return on invested capital (ROIC)
- •Return on sales (ROS)
- •Solvency ratio
Metrics
Financial analysis
- •Capital gains yield
- •Contribution margin
- •Degree of operating leverage
- •EBIT
- •EBITDA
- •EBITDA margin
- •Free cash flow
- •Free cash flow per share (FCF)
- •Gross margin
- •Market capitalization
- •Operating (EBIT) margin
- •Payback period
- •Present value
- •Real rate of return
- •Revenue
- •Risk premium
- •Shares outstanding
- •Tangible book value per share (TBVPS)
- •Total assets
- •Total debt
- •Total liabilities
- •Total stock return
- •Yield to maturity