Business assets

Market capitalization (market cap) is a measure of the size and value of a company; to determine this, you simply multiply the number of the company's ..... shares of stock by the market price of one share.

Cap-size shift: mid-cap stocks may have once been defined as large cap, but fell out of ..... with investors.

In a leveraged buyout (LBO), the target company's assets are used as collateral for debt, and its cash flow is used to ..... debt accrued by the buyer to acquire the company.

A Leveraged ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) allows a company to raise its capital-to-asset ..... by issuing new shares of stock to an employee trust, which finances the transaction with an asset-based loan.

Marketable securities are listed at current market value, while receivables are listed at net ..... value.

Ope Agbaje, an ABS analyst at CSAM, comments that traditional approaches to asset allocation have tended to focus on packaging together risk and return into one portfolio in the pursuit of ......

Such core strategies include traditional equity and fixed income products that are either passively or actively managed against benchmarks such as the S&P 500 and the JP Morgan Government Bond Index, ......

However, unlike unsecured bonds, which are fully dependent on the operating, payment ability and ultimately bankruptcy risk of a company, asset backed securities to various degrees tend to be ..... (fully or partly) from those risks.

Once considered simply a consequence of business activities, cash has evolved into a strategic asset, valued as a hedge against market volatility and amassed to stay ..... in a world of business opportunities.

The historical market perception was that holding cash would ..... shareholder value and, therefore, cash should be quickly deployed, but that's not necessarily the case, especially not today.