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A market maker or liquidity provider is a company or an individual that quotes both a buy and a sell price in a tradable asset held in inventory, hoping to make a profit on the difference, which is called the bid–ask spread or turn. [1] This stabilizes the market, reducing price variation by setting a trading price range for the asset.
In financial economics, a liquidity crisis is an acute shortage of liquidity. [1] Liquidity may refer to market liquidity (the ease with which an asset can be converted into a liquid medium, e.g. cash), funding liquidity (the ease with which borrowers can obtain external funding), or accounting liquidity (the health of an institution's balance sheet measured in terms of its cash-like assets).
Analysts measure this kind of liquidity by dividing the company’s liquid assets by its current and short-term liabilities. A liquidity ratio of one or higher indicates that the company is solvent.
Asset recovery, also known as investment or resource recovery, is the process of maximizing the value of unused or end-of-life assets through effective reuse or divestment. While sometimes referred to in the context of a company undergoing liquidation , Asset recovery also can describe the process of liquidating excess inventory , refurbished ...
There's more to profit margins than meets the eye. Sure, all things being equal, the higher the margin, the better. But all things are not equal. Plenty of companies can be quite attractive ...
Liquidity risk becomes particularly important to parties who are about to hold or currently hold an asset, since it affects their ability to trade. [2] Manifestation of liquidity risk is very different from a drop of price to zero. In case of a drop of an asset's price to zero, the market is saying that the asset is worthless.
A low profit margin indicates a low margin of safety: higher risk that a decline in sales will erase profits and result in a net loss, or a negative margin. Profit margin is an indicator of a company's pricing strategies and how well it controls costs. Differences in competitive strategy and product mix cause the profit margin to vary among ...
Information based on direct observations of transactions (e.g., quoted prices) involving the same assets and liabilities, not assumptions, offers superior reliability; whereas, inputs based on unobservable data or a reporting entity's own assumptions about the assumptions market participants would use are the least reliable.