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  2. Preferred stock - Wikipedia

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    Preferred stock (also called preferred shares, preference shares, or simply preferreds) is a component of share capital that may have any combination of features not possessed by common stock, including properties of both an equity and a debt instrument, and is generally considered a hybrid instrument.

  3. Weight function - Wikipedia

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    A weight function is a mathematical device used when performing a sum, integral, or average to give some elements more "weight" or influence on the result than other elements in the same set. The result of this application of a weight function is a weighted sum or weighted average .

  4. Weight (representation theory) - Wikipedia

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    A weight on a Lie algebra g over a field F is a linear map λ: g → F with λ([x, y]) = 0 for all x, y in g. Any weight on a Lie algebra g vanishes on the derived algebra [g,g] and hence descends to a weight on the abelian Lie algebra g/[g,g]. Thus weights are primarily of interest for abelian Lie algebras, where they reduce to the simple ...

  5. Common stock vs. preferred stock: What’s the difference? - AOL

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    Preferred stock tends to fluctuate a lot less than common stock, though it also has less potential for long-term growth. Pros. Receives a specified dividend that is often higher than common stock ...

  6. Weighted average cost of capital - Wikipedia

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    Cost of new equity should be the adjusted cost for any underwriting fees termed flotation costs (F): K e = D 1 /P 0 (1-F) + g; where F = flotation costs, D 1 is dividends, P 0 is price of the stock, and g is the growth rate. There are 3 ways of calculating K e: Capital Asset Pricing Model; Dividend Discount Method; Bond Yield Plus Risk Premium ...

  7. Capital asset pricing model - Wikipedia

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    An estimation of the CAPM and the security market line (purple) for the Dow Jones Industrial Average over 3 years for monthly data.. In finance, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a model used to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return of an asset, to make decisions about adding assets to a well-diversified portfolio.

  8. Liquidation preference - Wikipedia

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    Liquidation preferences are typically implemented by making them an attribute that attaches to preferred stock that investors purchase in exchange for their investment. . This means that the preference is senior to holders of common shares (and possibly other series of preferred stock), but junior to a company's debts and secured obligat

  9. Beta (finance) - Wikipedia

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    Beta is the hedge ratio of an investment with respect to the stock market. For example, to hedge out the market-risk of a stock with a market beta of 2.0, an investor would short $2,000 in the stock market for every $1,000 invested in the stock. Thus insured, movements of the overall stock market no longer influence the combined position on ...