Archives

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.

A location on a Web site dedicated to the discussion of a particular topic, usually a single stock or industry sector. Discussions are not real-time. Someone posts a message, and then others respond over a period of hours or days.

Profits a company can be expected to achieve taking out cyclical effects and unusual events such as one-time write-offs caused by late product releases, customer bankruptcies and the like. 

An order with a volume that combines any number of board lots and an odd lot.

A payment made by a market maker to a broker as a thank you for directing your stock trade to that market maker.

Sales minus all expenses except income taxes and other items not related to basic business.

Company with market capitalization between $2 billion and $7 billion.

A block of stock consisting of less than 100 shares. When odd lots trade, a premium is usually tacked on by the specialist or market maker. These receive the least favorable price and trade last.

A strategy for selecting stocks using screening criteria that have been found to work in the past.

Operating income divided by sales.