Since it is a non-cash expense, it increases free cash flow while decreasing the amount of a company's reported earnings. A security, like an option or future, whose value is derived from another underlying security. To remove the general drift, tendency or bent of a set of statistical data as related to time. A significant fall in the value of a currency, as compared to gold or another country's currency. A conception of the way a stock's price changes that assumes that the price takes on all intermediate values.
Dilution reduces earnings per share by increasing the number of shares potentially outstanding.
Over one hundred companies have registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell shares of their stock directly to investors. Investors typically participate in that company's Dividend Reinvestment Plan. An auditor's statement disclaiming any opinion regarding the company's financial condition. Investors do not receive advice or recommendations when using this kind of broker. The interest rate that the Federal Reserve charges a bank to borrow funds when a bank is temporarily short of funds.