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18 Cards in this Set
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Stockholders
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The owners of the corporation.
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Dividends
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Are the part of the corporations profits paid to stockholders
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Capital Gain
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The other way stockholders profit when the corporation does well.
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Common
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A type of stock that pays a variable dividend and gives the holder voting rights.
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Proxy
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A stockholder's written authorization to transfer his or her voting rights to someone else.
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Preferred stock
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Is a type of stock that pays a fixed dividend and carries no voting rights
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Income stocks
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Stocks that have a consistent history of paying high dividends.
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Growth Stocks
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Stocks in corporations that reinvest their profits into the business so that it can grow.
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Blue chip Stocks
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Stocks of large, well-established corporations with a solid record of profitablity.
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Par Value
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Is an assigned dollar value.
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Earnings per share
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A corporation's after-tax earnings divided by the number of common stock shares outstanding, that is, shares in the hands of investors.
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Bull market
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A prolonged period of rising stock prices and a general feeling of investor optimism.
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Bear Market
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A prolonged period of falling stock prices and a general feeling of investor pessimism.
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Leverage
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The use of borrowed money to buy securities.
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Short Selling
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Is selling stock borrowed from a broker that must be replaced at a later time.
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Stock split
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An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a company's stock.
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Direct investment
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buying stock directly from a corporation.
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Dividend Reinvestment
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Means using dividends previously earned on the stock to buy more shares.
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