ratio of safety — A margin, to be observed by a trustee in investing trust funds, between the value of the security and the amount of the trust investment. 54 Am J1st Trusts § 426 … Ballentine's law dictionary
Contrarian investing — In finance, a contrarian is one who attempts to profit by investing in a manner that differs from the conventional wisdom, when the consensus opinion appears to be wrong. A contrarian believes that certain crowd behavior among investors can lead… … Wikipedia
Value investing — is an investment paradigm that derives from the ideas on investment and speculation that Ben Graham David Dodd began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently developed in their 1934 text Security Analysis . Although value… … Wikipedia
Momentum investing — Momentum investing, also sometimes known as Fair Weather Investing , is a system of buying stocks or other securities that have had high returns over the past three to twelve months, and selling those that have had poor returns over the same… … Wikipedia
PEG ratio — The PEG ratio (Price/Earnings To Growth ratio) is a valuation metric for determining the relative trade off between the price of a stock, the earnings generated per share (EPS), and the company s expected growth. In general, the P/E ratio is… … Wikipedia
P/E ratio — The P/E ratio (price to earnings ratio) of a stock (also called its earnings multiple, or simply multiple, P/E, or PE ) is a measure of the price paid for a share relative to the annual income or profit earned by the firm per share. [cite web|url … Wikipedia
Financial ratio — Corporate finance … Wikipedia
Sharpe ratio — The Sharpe ratio or Sharpe index or Sharpe measure or reward to variability ratio is a measure of the excess return (or risk premium) per unit of deviation in an investment asset or a trading strategy, typically referred to as risk (and is a… … Wikipedia
P/B ratio — The price to book ratio, or P/B ratio, is a financial ratio used to compare a company s book value to its current market price. Book value is an accounting term denoting the portion of the company held by the shareholders; in other words, the… … Wikipedia
Dividend payout ratio — is the fraction of net income a firm pays to its stockholders in dividends: The part of the earnings not paid to investors is left for investment to provide for future earnings growth. Investors seeking high current income and limited capital… … Wikipedia
Debt-to-equity ratio — The debt to equity ratio (D/E) is a financial ratio indicating the relative proportion of shareholders equity and debt used to finance a company s assets.[1] Closely related to leveraging, the ratio is also known as Risk, Gearing or Leverage. The … Wikipedia