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Fifth letter of a
NASDAQ stock symbol specifying that it has not met the reporting date for the company's SEC regulatory filing requirements.
- E.A.F.E. index
- See:
European, Australian, and Far East index
- E.A.S.D.
- See:
European Association of Securities Dealers
- E.B.I.T.
- See:
Earnings Before Interest and Taxes
- E.C.U.
- See:
European Currency Unit
- E.D.I.
- See:
Electronic Data Interchange
- E.M.
- See:
Effective margin
- E.M.S.
- See:
European Monetary System
- E.O.E.
- See:
European Options Exchange
- E.O.Q.
- See:
Economic Order Quantity
- E.M.
- See:
Effective Margin
- E.R.M.
- See:
Exchange Rate Mechanism
- E.S.O.P.
- See:
Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- E.U.
- See:
European Union
- E.U.R.E.X.
- The European derivatives exchange formed in 1998 following the merger of
the
Deutsche Terminbörse (DTB) and the
Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange (SOFFEX).
- Earning power
-
Earnings before
interest and taxes (EBIT) divided by total
assets.
- Earnings
-
Net income for the company during the period.
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Earnings before interest and taxes (E.B.I.T.)
- A financial measure defined as revenues less cost of goods sold and selling, general, and administrative expenses. In other words, operating and non-operating
profit before the deduction of
interest and income taxes.
- Earnings per share (E.P.S.)
- E.P.S., as it is called, is a company's
profit divided by its
number of
outstanding shares.
If a company earned $2 million in one year had 2 million shares
of
stock
outstanding, its EPS would be $1 per share. In calculating E.P.S., the company often uses a weighted
average of shares
outstanding over the reporting term.
- Earnings retention ratio
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Plowback rate.
- Earnings surprises
- Positive or negative differences from the
consensus forecast of earnings by institutions such as First Call or
I.B.E.S. Negative earnings surprises generally have a greater adverse affect on
stock
prices than the reciprocal positive earnings surprise on stock prices.
- Earnings yield
- The ratio of
earnings per share, after allowing for tax and
interest payments on fixed interest
debt, to the current share price. The inverse of the
price/earnings ratio. It is the total twelve months
earnings divided by number of
outstanding
shares, divided by the recent price, multiplied by 100. The end result is shown in percentage. We often look at earning yields because it avoids the problem of zero earnings in the denominator of the price/earning ratio.
- Economic assumptions
- Economic environment a firm expects to operate in over the life of the
financial plan.
- Economic defeasance
- See:
in-substance defeasance.
- Economic dependence
- Exists when the costs and/or revenues of one project depend on those of another.
- Economic earnings
- The real flow of
cash that a firm could pay out forever in the absence of any change in the firm's productive capacity.
- Economic exposure
- The extent to which the value of the firm will change because of an
exchange rate change.
- Economic income
-
Cash flow plus change in
present value.
- Economic order quantity (E.O.Q.)
- The
order quantity that minimizes total
inventory costs.
- Economic rents
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Profits in excess of the competitive level.
- Economic risk
- In project financing, the
risk that the project's output will not be salable at a price that will cover the project's operating and maintenance costs and its debt service requirements.
- Economic surplus
- For any entity, the difference between the
market value of all its
assets and the market value of its
liabilities.
- Economic union
- An agreement between two or more countries that allows the free movement of
capital, labor, all goods and services, and involves the harmonization and unification of social, fiscal, and monetary policies.
- Economies of scale
- The decrease in the marginal cost of production as a firm's scale of operations increases.
- Economies of scope
- Scope economies exist whenever the same investment can support multiple profitable activities less expensively in combination than separately.
- EDGAR
- The
Securities & Exchange Commission uses Electronic Data Gathering and Retrieval to transmit company documents such as
10-Ks,
10-Qs, quarterly reports, and other
S.E.C. filings, to investors.
- Edge corporations
- Specialized banking institutions, authorized and chartered by the
Federal Reserve Board in the U.S., which are allowed to engage in transactions that have a foreign or international character. They are not subject to any restrictions on interstate banking. Foreign banks operating in the U.S. are permitted to organize and own an Edge corporation.
- Effect the market
- Used in the context of general equities. Change the price or volume levels at which a
stock trades through artificial, extraordinary, or non-fundamental demand or supply (i.e.,
corporate repurchase).
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Effective annual interest rate
- An annual measure of the
time value of money that fully reflects the effects of
compounding.
- Effective annual yield
- Annualized
interest rate on a
security computed using
compound interest techniques.
- Effective call price
- The
strike price in an
market
redemption provision plus the
accrued interest to the redemption date.
- Effective convexity
- The convexity of a
bond calculated using
cash flows that change with
yields.
- Effective date
- In an
interest rate swap, the date the
swap begins
accruing interest.
- Effective duration
- The
duration calculated using the approximate duration formula for a
bond with an embedded option, reflecting the expected change in the
cash flow caused by the
option. Measures the responsiveness of a
bond's price taking into account that expected cash flows will change as interest rates change due to the
embedded option.
- Effective margin (EM)
- Used with SAT performance measures, the amount equal to the net earned
spread, or margin of income, on
assets in excess of financing costs for a given
interest rate and
prepayment rate scenario.
- Effective rate
- A measure of the
time value of money that fully reflects the effects of
compounding.
- Effective spread
- The gross
underwriting
spread adjusted for the impact that the
common stock offering's announcement has on the firm's share price.
- Efficiency
- The degree and speed to which a
market accurately incorporates information into
prices.
- Efficient capital market
- A market in which new information is very quickly reflected accurately in
share prices.
- Efficient diversification
- The organizing principle of modern
portfolio theory, which maintains that any
risk-averse investor will search for the highest
expected return for any level of portfolio
risk.
- Efficient frontier
- The combinations of
securities
portfolios that maximize
expected return for any level of expected
risk, or that minimizes expected risk for any level of expected return. Pioneered by Harry Markowitz.
- Efficient Market Hypothesis
- In general the hypothesis states that all relevant information is fully and immediately reflected in a
security's
market price thereby assuming that an
investor will obtain an equilibrium rate of
return. In other words, an investor should not expect to earn an
abnormal return (above the
market return) through either
technical analysis or
fundamental analysis. Three forms of efficient
market hypothesis exist:
weak form (stock
prices reflect all information of past prices),
semi-strong form (stock prices reflect all publicly available information) and
strong form (stock prices reflect all relevant information including
insider information).
- Efficient portfolio
- A
portfolio that provides the greatest
expected return for a given level of
risk (i.e. standard deviation), or equivalently, the lowest risk for a given expected return.
- Efficient set
- Graph representing a set of
portfolios that maximize
expected return at each level of portfolio
risk.
- Eighth[-ed]
- Used in the context of general equities. A
Specialist or another
broker is bidding higher or offering lower than we are, often topping or undercutting us by an eighth.
- Either/or facility
- An agreement permitting a bank customer to borrow either domestic dollars from the bank's head office or
Eurodollars from one of its foreign branches.
- Either-or order
- Used in the context of general equities. See:
Alternative order.
- Either-way market
- In the interbank
Eurodollar deposit
market, an
either-way market is one in which the
bid and
offered rates are identical.
- Elasticity of an option
- Percentage change in the value of an
option given a 1% change in the value of the option's
underlying
stock.
- Electronic data interchange (E.D.I.)
- The exchange of information electronically, directly from one firm's computer to another firm's computer, in a structured format.
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Electronic depository transfers
- The transfer of funds between bank accounts through the
Automated Clearing House (A.C.H.) system.
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Eligible bankers' acceptances
- In the
BA market, an acceptance may be referred to as eligible because it is acceptable by the
Fed as
collateral at the
discount window and/or because the accepting bank can sell it without incurring a
reserve requirement.
- Elliott Wave Theory
- Used in the context of general equities. Technical
market timing strategy that predicts
price movements based on historical price wave patterns and their
underlying psychological motives. Robert Prechter is a famous Elliott Wave Theorist.
- Embedded option
- An
option that is part of the structure of a
bond that provides either the
bondholder or
issuer the right to take some action against the other party, as opposed to a bare option, which
trades separately from any
underlying security.
- Emerging markets
- The financial
markets of developing economies.
- Employee stock fund
- A firm-sponsored program that enables employees to purchase
shares of the firm's
common stock on a preferential basis.
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Employee stock ownership plan (E.S.O.P.)
- A company contributes to a trust fund that buys
stock on behalf of employees.
- Endogenous variable
- A value determined within the context of a
model. Related:
Exogenous variable
- Endowment funds
- Investment funds established for the support of institutions such as colleges, private schools, museums, hospitals, and foundations. The
investment income may be used for the operation of the institution and for
capital expenditures.
- End-of-year convention
- Treating
cash flows as if they occur at the end of a year as opposed to the date convention. Under the end-of-year convention, the present is time 0, the end of year 1 occurs one year hence, etc.
- Enhanced indexing
- Also called indexing plus, an
indexing strategy whose
objective is to exceed or replicate the total
return performance of some predetermined index.
- Enhancement
- An innovation that has a positive impact on one or more of a firm's existing products.
- Equal dollar swap
- Used in the context of general equities. Selling
common stock/convertibles in one company and reinvesting the proceeds in as many
shares of 1) another type of
security
issued by the company, or 2) another
security of the same type but of another company -- as can be bought with the proceeds of the sale. See:
equal shares swap.
- Equal shares swap
- Mainly applies to convertible securities. Selling the
underlying common and reinvesting the proceeds in as much convertible as could be converted into the number of
shares of common just sold. See
equal dollar swap.
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Equilibrium market price of risk
- The slope of the
capital market line (C.M.L.). Since the
C.M.L. represents the
expected return offered to compensate for a perceived level of
risk, each point on the line is a balanced
market condition, or equilibrium. The slope of the line determines the additional
expected return needed to compensate for a unit change in
risk. The equation of the C.M.L. is defined by the
Capital Asset Pricing Model.
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Equilibrium rate of interest
- The
interest rate that clears the market. Also called the
trade-clearing interest rate.
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Equipment trust certificates
- Certificates
issued by a trust that was formed to purchase an
asset and
lease it to a
lessee. When the last of the certificates has been repaid, title ownership of the asset transfers to the lessee.
- Equity
- Represents ownership interest in a firm. Also the
residual dollar value of a
futures trading account, assuming its
liquidation occurs at the going
trade price.
- Equity cap
- An agreement in which one party, for an upfront premium, agrees to compensate the other at specific time periods if a designated
stock market
benchmark is greater than a predetermined level.
- Equity claim
- Also called a
residual claim, a claim to a share of
earnings after
debt obligations have been satisfied.
- Equity collar
- The simultaneous purchase of an
equity floor and sale of an
equity cap.
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Equity contribution agreement
- An agreement to contribute
equity to a project under certain specified conditions.
- Equity floor
- An agreement in which one party agrees to pay the other at specific time periods if a specific
stock market
benchmark is less than a predetermined level.
- Equity kicker
- Used to refer to
warrants because they are usually
issued attached to privately placed
bonds.
- Equity market
- Related:Stock market
- Equity multiplier
- Total
assets divided by total
common
stockholders' equity; the amount of total assets per dollar of stockholders' equity.
- Equity options
-
Securities that give the holder the right (but not the obligation) to
buy or sell a specified number of
shares of
stock, at a specified price for a certain (limited) time period. Typically one
option equals 100 shares of
stock.
- Equity swap
- A
swap in which the
cash flows exchanged are based on
the total
return on
some
stock market index and an
interest rate (either a fixed rate or
floating rate). Related:
interest rate swap.
- Equity-linked policies
- Related:
Variable life
- Equityholders
- Those holding
shares of the firm's
equity.
- Equivalent annual annuity
- The equivalent identical amount per year for some number of years that has a
present value equal to a given amount.
- Equivalent annual benefit
- The equivalent annual
annuity for the net
present value of an investment project.
- Equivalent annual cash flow
-
Annuity with the same net
present value as the company's proposed investment.
- Equivalent annual cost
- The equivalent cost per year of owning an
asset over its entire life.
- Equivalent bond yield
- Annual
yield on a short-term, non-interest bearing
security calculated in order to be comparable to yields quoted on
coupon securities.
- Equivalent loan
- Given the after-tax stream associated with a
lease, the maximum amount of conventional
debt that the same period-by-period after-tax debt service stream is capable of supporting.
- Equivalent taxable yield
- The
yield that must be offered on a taxable
bond
issue to give the same after-tax yield as a tax-exempt issue.
- Erosion
- An innovation that has a negative impact on one or more of a firm's existing
assets.
- Ethics
- Standards of conduct or moral judgement.
- Euro
- Euro usually refers to a deposit outside the home country but in the home country currency. This terminology is confusing given the new European currency unit, also called the Euro, was introduced on January 1, 1999.
- Eurobank
- A bank that regularly accepts
foreign currency denominated deposits and makes foreign currency loans.
- Eurobond
- A
bond that is (1)
underwritten by an international
syndicate, (2) issued simultaneously to investors in a number of countries, and (3)
issued outside the jurisdiction of any single country.
- Euro CDs
-
CDs
issued by a U.S. bank branch or foreign bank located outside the U.S. Almost all Euro CDs are issued in London.
- Euroclear
- One of two principal clearing systems in the
Eurobond market. It began operations in 1968, is located in Brussels, and is managed by Morgan Guaranty Bank. Mainly applies to international equities. European Clearing Organization which functions similarly to the
D.T.C.
- Eurocredits
- Intermediate-term loans of
Eurocurrencies made by banking
syndicates to corporate and government borrowers.
- Euro-commercial paper
- Short-term
notes with
maturities up to 360 days that are
issued by companies in international
money markets.
- Eurocurrency
- Euro just means outside your country. So a
Eurodollar is a
certificate of deposit in U.S. dollars in some other country (though mainly
traded in London). A Euroyen is a
CD in yen outside of Japan.
- Eurocurrency deposit
- A short-term fixed rate
time deposit denominated in a
currency other than the local currency (i.e. US$ deposited in a London bank).
- Eurocurrency market
- The
money market for borrowing and lending
currencies that are held in the form of deposits in banks located outside the countries where the currencies are
issued as legal tender.
- Eurodollar
- Refers to a
certificate of deposit in U.S. dollars in a bank that is not located in the U.S. Most of the Eurodollar deposits are in London banks but it is possible to have Eurodeposits anywhere other than the U.S. Similarly, a Euroyen or EuroDM deposit represents the
CD in Yen or
DM outside Japan and Germany, respectively.
- Eurodollar bonds
-
Eurobonds denominated in U.S.dollars.
- Euroequity issues
-
Securities sold in the Euromarket. That is, securities initially sold to investors simultaneously in several national markets by an international syndicate. Euromarket. Related:
external market
- Euro lines
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Lines of credit granted by banks (foreign or foreign branches of U.S. banks) for
Eurocurrencies.
- Euro-medium term note (Euro-MTN)
- A non-underwritten
Euronote
issued directly to the market. Euro-MTNs are offered continuously rather than all at once as a
bond issue is. Most Euro-MTN
maturities are under five years.
- Euro.NM
- Created on March 1, 1996, Euro.NM is a pan-European network of regulated
markets dedicated to growth companies, regardless of their sector of activity
or country of origin. Euro.NM member
exchanges and their respective new markets consist of the Paris Stock Exchange (Le Nouveau Marché),
Deutsche Börse AG (Neuer Markt), Amsterdam Exchanges (NMAX) and the Brussels Stock Exchange (Euro.NM Belgium)
- Euro-note
- Short- to medium-term
debt instrument sold in the
Eurocurrency market.
-
European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (E.A.S.D.A.Q.)
- European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system.
European equivalent of
N.A.S.D.A.Q.S..
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European, Australian, and Far East index (E.A.F.E. index)
-
Stock index, computed by
Morgan Stanley Capital International.
- European Currency Unit (E.C.U.)
- An index of
foreign exchange consisting of about 10
European currencies, originally devised in 1979. See:
Euro
- European Monetary System (E.M.S.)
- An exchange arrangement formed in 1979 that involves the currencies of
European Union member countries.
- European option
-
Option that may be exercised
only at the
expiration date.
Related:
American option.
- European Options Exchange (E.O.E.)
- Now AEX-Optiebeurs. See:
Amsterdam Exchanges (AEX).
- European-style option
- An
option contract that can only be exercised on the
expiration date.
- European Union (E.U.)
- An economic association of European countries founded by the Treaty of Rome in 1957 as a
common market for six nations. It was known as the European Community before 1993 and is currently comprised of 15 European countries. Its goals are a single market for goods and services without any economic barriers and a common currency with one monetary authority. The E.U. was known as the European Community until January 1, 1994.
- Euro straight
- A fixed-rate
coupon
Eurobond.
- Euroyen bonds
-
Eurobonds denominated in Japanese yen.
- Evaluation period
- The time interval over which a
money manager's performance is evaluated.
- Evening up
- Buying or selling to
offset an existing market
position.
- Event risk
- The
risk that the ability of an
issuer to make
interest and principal payments will change because of rare, discontinuous, and very large, unanticipated changes in the
market environment such as (1) a natural or industrial accident or some regulatory change or (2) a
takeover or corporate restructuring.
- Event study
- A statistical study that examines how the release of information affects
prices at a particular time.
- Events of default
- Contractually specified events that allow lenders to demand immediate repayment of a
debt.
- Evergreen credit
-
Revolving credit without
maturity.
- Exact matching
- A
bond
portfolio management strategy that involves finding the lowest cost portfolio generating cash inflows exactly equal to cash outflows that are being financed by investment.
- Exante return
- The
expected return or anticipated return of an
asset or
portfolio.
- Except for opinion
- An auditor's opinion reflecting the fact that the auditor was unable to audit certain areas of the company's operations because of restrictions imposed by management or other conditions beyond the auditor's control.
- Excess Kurtosis
- Kurtosis measures the fatness of the tails of the distribution. Excess kurtosis means that distribution has fatter tails than normal distribution.
- Excess reserves
- Any excess of actual reserves above
required reserves.
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Excess return on the market portfolio
- The difference between the
return on the market portfolio and the
riskless rate.
- Excess returns
- The difference between asset return and
riskless rate. Sometimes confused with
abnormal returns, returns in excess of those required by some
asset pricing model.
- Exchange
- The marketplace in which
shares,
options and
futures on
stocks,
bonds,
commodities and indices are
traded. Principal US
stock exchanges are:
New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.),
American Stock Exchange (A.M.E.X.) and the
National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (N.A.S.D.A.Q.).
- Exchange, The
- A nickname for the New York Stock Exchange. Also known as the
Big Board. More than 2,000 common and preferred
stocks are
traded. The exchange is the oldest in the United States, founded in 1792, and the largest. It is located on
Wall Street in New York City.
- Exchangeable
- Mainly applies to convertible securities. Right of an
issuer, if so stated, to exchange a convertible debenture for an existing
convertible preferred with identical terms. Most often used if a corporation has an immediate need for
equity capital and has a currently low tax rate, and thus expects either or both conditions to change. This would make the debenture less attractive due to the interest tax deductibility being lost.
- Exchangeable instrument
- Mainly applies to convertible securities. Bond or
preferred stock, exchangeable into the
common stock of a different public corporation (i.e.,
Spin off).
- Exchange controls
- Governmental restrictions on the purchase of
foreign currencies by domestic citizens or on the purchase of the local domestic currency by foreigners.
- Exchange of assets
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Acquisition of another company by purchase of its
assets in exchange for
cash or
stock.
- Exchange of stock
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Acquisition of another company by purchase of its
stock in exchange for
cash or
shares.
- Exchange offer
- An offer by the firm to give one
security, such as a
bond or
preferred stock, in exchange for another security, such as shares of
common stock.
- Exchange rate
- The price of one country's
currency expressed in another country's currency.
- Exchange Rate Mechanism (E.R.M.)
- The methodology by which members of the
EMS maintain their currency
exchange rates within an agreed upon range with respect to other member countries.
- Exchange rate risk
- Also called
currency risk, the
risk of an investment's value changing because of currency exchange rates.
- Exchange risk
- The variability of a firm's value that results from unexpected
exchange rate changes or the extent to which the
present value of a firm is expected to change as a result of a given currency's appreciation or
depreciation.
- Exchangeable Security
-
Security that grants the security holder the right to exchange the security for the common
stock of a firm other than the
issuer of the security.
- Exclusionary self-tender
- The firm makes a
tender offer for a given amount of its own
stock while excluding targeted
stockholders.
- Exclusive
- Used in the context of general equities. Having sole possession of the customer
order/indication solely, not in competition with other dealers.
- Ex-dividend
- This literally means "without
dividend." The buyer of
shares when they are quoted ex-dividend is not entitled to receive a declared
dividend. Used in the context of general equities. It is the interval between the
record date and the
payment date during which the stock
trades without its dividend -- the buyer of a
stock selling ex-dividend does not receive the recently declared dividend. Antithesis of
cum dividend.
- Ex-dividend date
- The first day of
trading when the seller, rather than the buyer, of a
stock will be entitled to the most recently announced
dividend payment. This date set by the
N.Y.S.E. (and generally followed on other US exchanges) is currently two business days before the
record date. A
stock that has gone
ex-dividend is marked with an x in newspaper listings on that date.
- Execution
- The process of completing an
order to
buy or sell securities. Once a
trade is executed, it is reported by a Confirmation Report;
settlement (payment and transfer of ownership) occurs in the U.S. between 1 (mutual funds) and 5 (stocks) days after an
order is executed.
Settlement times for exchange
listed stocks are in the process of being reduced to three days in the U. S. The time greatly varies across countries. For example, in France,
settlements are only once per month.
- Execution costs
- The difference between the
execution price of a
security and the price that would have existed in the absence of a
trade, which can be further divided into
market impact costs and
market timing costs.
- Exempt securities
-
Instrument exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 or the
margin requirements of the
S.E.C. Act of 1934. Such securities include
government bonds,
agencies,
munis,
commercial paper, and
private placements.
- Exercise
- To implement the right of the holder of an
option to
buy (in the case of a
call) or sell (in the case of a
put) the
underlying security.
- Exercise price
- The price at which the security
underlying a
future or
options contract may be bought or sold.
- Exercise value
- The amount of advantage over a current
market transaction provided by an
in-the-money option.
- Exercising the option
- The act buying or selling the
underlying asset via the
option contract.
- Exogenous variable
- A
variable whose value is determined outside the model in which it is used. Related:
Endogenous variable
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Expectations hypothesis theories
- Theories of the term structure of interest rates which include the
pure expectations theory, the
liquidity theory of the term structure, and the
preferred habitat theory. These theories hold that each
forward rate equals the expected future
interest rate for the relevant period. These three theories differ, however, on whether other factors also affect forward rates, and how.
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Expectations theory of forward exchange rates
- A theory of foreign
exchange rates that states that the expected future
spot foreign exchange rate t periods from now equals the current t-period
forward exchange rate.
- Expected dividend yield
- Total amount of
dividends received on the
index during the life of a
futures contract or total dividends received for holding a stock on year. See:
current yield.
- Expected future cash flows
- Projected future
cash flows associated with an
asset.
- Expected future return
- The
return that is expected to be earned on an
asset in the future. Also called the
expected return.
- Expected return
- The
expected return on a
risky
asset based on a
probability distribution for the possible rates of return. Expected return equals some risk free rate (generally the prevailing U.S. Treasury
note or bond rate) plus a
risk premium (the difference between the historic market return, based upon a well diversified
index such as the
S&P 500 and the historic U.S. Treasury bond) multiplied by the
assets
beta. The conditional expected return varies through time as a function of current market information.
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Expected return on investment
- The
return one can expect to earn on an investment. See:
capital asset pricing model.
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Expected return-beta relationship
- Implication of the
CAPM that
security
risk premiums will be proportional to
beta.
- Expected value
- The weighted
average of a
probability distribution. Also known as the mean value.
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Expected value of perfect information
- The
expected value if the future uncertain outcomes could be known minus the expected value with no additional information.
- Expensed
- Charged to an expense account, fully reducing reported
profit of that year, as is appropriate for expenditures for items with useful lives under one year.
- Expense ratio
- The percentage of the
assets that were spent to run a
mutual fund (as of the last annual statement). This includes expenses such as management and advisory fees, overhead costs and
12b-1 (distribution and advertising) fees. The
expense ratio does not include brokerage costs for trading the
portfolio, although these are reported as a percentage of assets to the
S.E.C. by the funds in a Statement of Additional Information (SAI). The SAI is available to
shareholders on request. Neither the expense ratio or the SAI includes the
transaction costs of
spreads, normally incurred in unlisted
securities and foreign
stocks. These two costs can add significantly to the reported expenses of a fund. The
expense ratio is often termed an Operating Expense Ratio (O.E.R.).
- Expiration
- The time when the
option contract ceases to exist (expires).
- Expiration cycle
- An expiration cycle relates to the dates on which
options on a particular
security expire. A given option will be placed in 1 of 3 cycles, the January cycle, the February cycle, or the March cycle. At any point in time, an option will have contracts with 4
expiration dates
outstanding, 2 in near-term months and 2 in far-term months. Last day on which an option may be
exercised.
- Expiration date
- The last day (in the case of
American-style) or the only day (in the case of European-style) on which an
option may be
exercised. For
stock options, this date is the Saturday immediately following the 3rd Friday of the expiration month; however,
brokerage firms may set an earlier deadline for notification of an
option holder's intention to
exercise. If Friday is a holiday, the
last trading day will be the preceding Thursday.
- Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank)
- The U.S. federal government
agency that extends trade credits to U.S. companies to facilitate the financing of U.S. exports.
- Ex post return
- Related:
Holding period return
- Exposure netting
-
Offsetting exposures in one currency with exposures in the same or another currency, where
exchange rates are expected to move in such a way that losses or gains on the first exposed
position should be offset by gains or losses on the second currency exposure.
- Expropriation
- The official seizure by a government of private property. Any government has the right to seize such property, according to international law, if prompt and adequate compensation is given.
- Expunge
- Used in the context of general equities. Remove any trace of an
Autex
indication's existence at any time. See:
cancel.
- Ex-rights
- In connection with a
rights offering,
shares of
stock that are trading without the rights attached.
- Ex-rights date
- The date on which a share of
common stock begins trading ex-rights.
- Extendable bond
-
Bond whose
maturity can be extended at the option of the lender or
issuer.
- Extendable notes
-
Note with
maturity that can be extended by mutual agreement between the
issuer and investors.
- Extension
- Voluntary arrangements to restructure a firm's
debt, under which the payment date is postponed.
- Extension date
- The day on which the first
option either expires or is extended.
- Extension swap
- Extending
maturity through a
swap, e.g. selling a 2-year
note and buying one with a slightly longer
current maturity.
- External efficiency
- Related:
pricing efficiency.
- External finance
- Finance that is not generated by the firm: new borrowing or a
stock
issue.
- External market
- Also referred to as the
international market, the
offshore market, or, more popularly, the Euromarket, the mechanism for trading
securities that (1) at
issuance are
offered simultaneously to investors in a number of countries and (2)
are issued outside the jurisdiction of any single country. Related:
internal market
- Extinguish
- Retire or pay off
debt.
- Extra or special dividends
- A
dividend that is paid in
addition to a firm's "regular" quarterly
dividend.
-
Extraordinary positive value
- A positive
net present value.
-
Extrapolative statistical models
- Models that apply a formula to historical data and project results for a future period. Such models include the
simple linear trend model, the simple exponential model, and the simple
autoregressive model.
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