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Services and products sold by a company. Sales and revenues mean the same thing.

Annual sales divided by the number of shares outstanding.

Sales at retail stores or restaurants open at least one year. A chain’s same store sales growth excludes gains due to increases in the number of stores. Same store sales growth in the 5 percent to 10 percent range is considered good.

dividend yield of a stock compared the dividend yield of the S&P 500.

A TSX report that ranks each Participating Organization’s/Member’s trading activity relative to the total market and the other POs/Members. It is produced monthly for each TSX Group PO/Member.

Costs of developing new products and services. 

This is a level where a stock has a difficult time moving through. Resistance levels can be caused by former tops, breakout prices, moving averages, or just price levels where a stock has spent a lot of time in the past. When choosing buy levels, we watch for a stock to break through resistance on good volume. That indicates the move through the resistance is strong, and that the stock will most likely stay above that resistance. In such situations, former resistance then becomes support. When we take a position coming off of support, we always look for resistance levels as points where we may encounter resistance so we do not lose gains we have banked if resistance proves too much.

The Registered Trader assigned by the Selection Committee to act as market maker in a security. Their duties include providing a minimum guaranteed fill, maintaining minimum spread and ensuring orderly trading.

A security that features an option for the holder to require the issuer to redeem it, subject to specified terms and conditions.

After tax income (latest 12 months) divided by total of shareholder’s equity plus long term debt, plus other long term liabilities.