Absolute Return
23 Apr 2008An absolute return is the actual amount of money made by an investment; the actual gain as a percentage of the amount invested. In contrast, relative returns are adjusted to show performance compar...
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Acceptances
23 Apr 2008Once a takeover bid is formally made shareholders in the target company may choose to accept the offer or not. When shareholders accept the offer, they do not immediately sell their shares to the bidd...
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Quick Assets Ratio
23 Apr 2008One of the problems with the current assets ratio is that the assets counted include stocks which may or may not be quickly sellable (or which may only be sellable quickly at a lower price). The qu...
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Free Cash FLow
21 Apr 2008Free cash flow (FCF) measures how much money a company makes after deducting maintenance capex, but before capex on expansion. This is important as it allows valuation of the existing business with...
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