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This is the average stock price over a certain period of time.

Slang used for minimum spread. Depending on the stock price it could be a half-cent, one cent or five cents.

An order receives a partial fill when it trades only part of its total committed volume.

A security with a solid record of dividend payments and which offers a dividend yield higher than the average common stock.

Company with market capitalization less than $1 billion.

Sales or revenues.

With respect to stocks split or dividends, a pay date is the date that a company pays a dividend or stock split out, which is usually the day before the ex-dividend date.

Also called income funds. Income trusts are trusts structured to own debt and equity of an underlying entity, which carries on an active business, or has royalty revenues generated by the assets of an active business. By owning securities or assets of an underlying business, an income trust is structured to distribute cash flows, typically on a monthly basis, from those businesses to unit holders in a tax-efficient manner. The trust structure is typically utilized by mature, stable, sustainable, cash-generating businesses that require a limited amount of maintenance capital expenditures. An income trust is an exchange-traded equity investment that is similar to a common share. There are four categories of income trusts: business trusts; real estate investment trusts (REITs); energy trusts; and power, pipeline, and utility trusts.

Each time a stock is bought and sold, it is displayed on an electronic ticker tape. It is a record of current trading activity on an exchange.

The total number of issued and outstanding shares for the security.