Econ set 1 Flashcards
Stock
Ownership of a company
Shareholder
If you buy a stock
Dividend
Earnings from a company
Portfolio
collection of all your investments
Diversification
Spreading your money out over different investments
Return
How much you GAIN or LOOSE on an investment
Capital gain
what you earn from an investiment
IPO
Fiist sale of a company
Market Cap
How much every stock of that company is worth
Blue Chip Stock
well established companies stock
Volume
How many stocks are traded in a day or so
Broker
someone who makes your investments
index/index fund
Stocks that are used as a measurement of the stock market
Bond
Loaning the government or a company money
Mutual fund
A bunch of investments brought together
Volatility
How freucuintly the price changes
yeild
the income return on an investiment
liquidity
how quickly an investment can be turned into cash