What Is a Buyback? A Company Purchasing Its Own Shares
A share buyback, or share repurchase, occurs when a company purchases its own outstanding shares from the market, reducing the total number of shares available to…
A share buyback, or share repurchase, occurs when a company purchases its own outstanding shares from the market, reducing the total number of shares available to…
A stock split is a corporate action where a company divides its existing shares into multiple…
Bonus shares are additional shares issued by a company to its existing shareholders at no extra…
Face value, also called nominal or par value, is the fixed value assigned to a share…
Book value represents a company's net worth as recorded on its balance sheet — calculated as total assets minus total liabilities —…
The Sharpe ratio is a widely used metric that measures how much excess return an investment generates per unit of risk (volatility)…
Alpha measures the excess return an investment or portfolio has generated compared to what would be expected based on its risk level…
Beta is a statistical measure of how much a stock's price tends to move relative to a broader market benchmark, such as…
Open interest refers to the total number of outstanding futures or options contracts that have not yet been settled, closed, or expired,…
Trading volume refers to the total number of shares (or contracts, for derivatives) of a security that changed hands during a specified…
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