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Financial terms in "Fundamental Analysis"

1. Revenue

2. provision for income taxes

3. EBITDA margin

4. cash flows from investing activities

5. filing

6. pre-depreciation profit

7. stock option

8. normalized earnings

9. current earnings per share (current EPS)

10. Initial Public Offering

11. gross sales

12. new money preferred

13. Value stock

14. EV/EBITDA

15. fixed asset

16. EBIDTA

17. trust-preferred security

18. look-ahead bias

19. rating

20. liquidity ratio

21. Form S-1

22. dividend puzzle

23. Chicago Board Options Exchange

24. inventory

25. cash dividend

26. distribution period

27. 1099

28. holding value

29. qualified dividend

30. Fractional share

31. Form 8-K

32. operating margin

33. aggregate corporation

34. chart

35. Return On Investment

36. demand rights

37. owner earnings run rate

38. Retained Earnings

39. common stock ratio

40. Net Assets

41. profit warning

42. insider

43. shares outstanding

44. dividend discount model

45. earnings calendar

46. net capital ratio

47. hurdle rate

48. Interest

49. Current Assets

50. authorized stock

51. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

52. interest coverage

53. unappropriated profit

54. cumulative preferred

55. asset acquisition

56. first preferred stock

57. earned surplus

58. optional cash purchase

59. EBITDA Multiple

60. Net Asset Value

61. earnings management

62. stranded asset

63. earnings before interest, depreciation, amortization and exploration (EBIDAX)

64. Sleeper

65. dilution of ownership

66. spillover dividend

67. Stockholders' Equity

68. SEC EDGAR

69. Holding Company

70. Gross margin

71. entitlements

72. Standard Industrial Classification

73. tax differential view of dividend policy

74. YTD

75. trailing P/E

76. Gordon Growth Model

77. dividend adjusted return

78. forward P/E

79. corporate action

80. Reports and Records

81. secondary stock

82. Discounted Cash Flow Analysis

83. Operating Cash Flow

84. net capital requirement

85. capital dividend account (CDA)

86. interest cover

87. total shareholder return

88. dividend arbitrage

89. payout

90. cats and dogs

91. Float

92. dividend requirement

93. dividend date

94. cutting a melon

95. preferred dividend coverage ratio

96. Diluted earnings per share

97. performance

98. defensive stock

99. marginable stock

100. current income

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Direct Investment

Categories: Stocks,

You can make a direct investment in a company's stock through dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) and direct purchase plans (DPPs). If a company in which you own stock offers a DRIP, you have the opportunity to re-invest cash dividends and capital gains distributions in more stock automatically each time they are paid. In the case of DPPs, also known as direct stock purchase plans (DSPs), companies can sell their stock directly to investors without using a brokerage firm as intermediary.Direct investment also refers to long-term investments in limited partnerships that invest in real estate, leased equipment, and energy exploration and development. In this type of investment, you become part owner of the hard assets of the enterprise.You realize income from your investment by receiving a portion of the business's profits, for example, from rents, contractual leasing payments, or oil sales. In some cases you realize capital gains at the end of the investment term, if the business sells its assets.These DPPs are largely nontraded and have no formal secondary markets. This means you will often have to hold the investment for terms of eight years or more, with no guarantee that any of the income or capital gains will materialize. Many people make direct investments because there can be significant tax benefits, such as tax deferral and tax abatement, depending on the investment.

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