Stocks & Business Finance Vocab

debts that companies owe (salaries, wages, loans, expenses)

• liabilities

• operating cost

• shareholder

• bear market

a person who invests in a corporation by buying stock and is a partial owner

• quote

• shares

• stock broker

• shareholder

the price of a stock at a particular point during the day

• assets

• shares

• quote

• indexes

shares of ownership in a company

• assets

• stocks

• revenue

• quote

the total amount of money the business receives from its customers for its products and services

• revenue

• net profit

• gross profit

• assets

a financial statement that reports a company's revenues and expenses and resulting net income or net loss for a specific period of time

• Dow Jones

• operating costs

• income statement

• stock market

a system for buying and selling shares of companies

• NYSE

• stock market

• shares

• indexes

the cost of operating a facility, such as a store or factory

• liabilities

• assets

• income statement

• operating costs

tracks the prices of 500 different stocks as a measure of overall stock market performance

• Dow Jones

• NYSE

• S&P 500

• NASDAQ

a licensed professional who buys and sells stock exchange on behalf of clients

• shareholder

• stock broker

• Dow Jones

• shares