Price-to-Cash Flow Ratio
What is the Price-to-Cash Flow Ratio? The price-to-cash flow (also denoted as price/cash flow or P/CF) ratio is a financial multiple that compares a company’s market value to its operating cash flow (or the company’s stock price per share to its operating cash flow per share). Essentially, the price-to-cash flow ratio measures the current price...
Company Bylaws
What are Company Bylaws? Company bylaws are the rules that govern how a company is run and one of the first items to be established by the board of directors at the time a company is started. Such bylaws are created usually after the Articles of Incorporation are submitted, which is why a lot of...
Stock Split
What is a Stock Split? Publicly-traded companies all have a given number of outstanding shares of stock in their company that have been purchased by and issued to investors. A stock split is a decision by the company to increase the number of outstanding shares by a specificied multiple. More About Stock Splits When a company...
Shareholder
What is a Shareholder? A shareholder can be a person, company, or organization that holds stock(s) in a given company. A shareholder must own a minimum of one share in a company’s stock or mutual fund to make them a partial owner. Shareholders typically receive declared dividends if the company does well and succeeds. Also...
Types of Financial Analysis
What is Financial Analysis? Financial analysis involves using financial data to assess a company’s performance and make recommendations about how it can improve going forward. Financial analysts primarily carry out their work in Excel, using spreadsheets to analyze historical data and make projections of how they think the company will perform in the future. This guide will cover...
