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The number can be driven by hype, popularity or other short-term optimism as well as estimates of a company’s long-term value. So large-cap stocks are those with a relatively large market cap ...
Small-cap stocks may have finally turned the corner last quarter, but the rally may be just getting started. The benchmark small-cap stock index, the Russell 2000, climbed 8.9% during the third ...
The average stock in the S&P 500 trades for 4.7 times book value and more than 27 times earnings, while the average stock in the Russell 2000 small-cap index has a price-to-book multiple of just 2 ...
The "traditional" asset classes are stocks, bonds, and cash: . Stocks: value, dividend, growth, or sector-specific (or a "blend" of any two or more of the preceding); large-cap versus mid-cap, small-cap or micro-cap; domestic, foreign (developed), emerging or frontier markets
Small-cap stocks are generally riskier than large-cap; companies that primarily service governments, or provide basic consumer goods such as food or utilities, tend to be less volatile than those in other industries. Note that since stocks tend to rise when corporate bonds fall and vice versa, a portfolio containing a small percentage of stocks ...
The coupon (of a bond) is the annual interest that the issuer must pay, expressed as a percentage of the principal. The maturity is the end of the bond, the date that the issuer must return the principal. The issue is another term for the bond itself. The indenture, in some cases, is the contract that states all of the terms of the bond.
At the start of 2024, small-cap stocks were trading at their lowest price-to-book (P/B) valuation compared to large caps in 25 years. And thanks to a strong year for the S&P 500 index ...
Long-term bonds. Long-term bonds have a maturity of 10-plus years at the minimum. While the U.S. Treasury offers 10- and 30-year bonds, corporate long-term bonds can have various maturities ...