Stocks

There are a number of ways that some experienced investors seek increased returns by taking on more risk. Buying on Margin When you buy stocks on margin, ... [full story]

You can buy two kinds of stock. All publicly traded companies issue common stock. Some companies also issue preferred stock, which exposes you to somewhat less risk of losing money, ... [full story]

You'll frequently hear companies referred to as large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap. These descriptors refer to market capitalization, also known as market cap and sometimes shortened to just capitalization. Market cap ... [full story]

Stocks can also be subdivided into defensive and cyclical stocks. The difference is in the way their profits, and therefore their stock prices, tend to respond to the relative strength ... [full story]

The Dow Jones Industrials represent an elite club of thirty titans of industry such as Exxon, IBM, ATT, DuPont, Philip Morris, and Proctor & Gamble. From time to time, some ... [full story]

   *   Once each year, you look at the 30 stocks in the  Dow   and pick the 10 with the highest  dividend yield. A high dividend yield may indicate the ... [full story]

Dollar-cost averaging is a strategy in which a person invests a fixed dollar amount on a regular basis, usually monthly purchase of shares in a mutual fund. When the fund's ... [full story]

The market capitalization (or "cap") of a stock is simply the market value of all outstanding shares and is computed by multiplying the market price by the number of outstanding ... [full story]

Preferred stocks combine characteristics of common stocks and bonds. Garden-variety preferred shares are a lot like general obligation bonds/debentures; they are called shares, but carry with them a set dividend, ... [full story]

Companies may repurchase their own stock on the open market, usually common shares, for many reasons. In theory, the buyback should not be a short term fix to the stock ... [full story]