General

The Stock Market: An Auction Market

An auction market is a market in which buyers submit competitive bids while sellers simultaneously submit competitive offers. The stock market is an auction market as it leverages this process to enable swift trading with the stock price representing the highest price a buyer will pay and the lowest price a seller will sell. [...]

Total Return Index and Stock Investing

The total return index is an equity index that serves as a tool to measure the overall performance of a group of stocks over some period of time. A total return index works under the assumption that all cash distributions (such as dividends) that are associated with the stocks in the index are reinvested [...]

What Does a Market Maker Do?

A market maker is a broker-dealer company (typically a bank or brokerage firm) whose role is to “make the market” for a particular stock. The market maker accepts the risk associated with holding shares in inventory in order to facilitate the trading of that security; selling shares to investors looking to purchase or buying [...]

The Definition of Market Value Added (MVA)

Market Value Added (MVA) is a calculation that measures the difference between the current market value of a company and the capital contributed to the company by its investors. The market value added is the current market value of company debt and equity, less the total of all capital claims held against the company. [...]

Finding Oversold Stocks Through Fundamental and Technical Analysis

An oversold condition can for a stock occurs when the price of the stock falls well below its real or “intrinsic” value or, for technical analysts, when a decline in the stock’s price push indicators to a level that point to a coming bounce in the price. Generally speaking, any asset that sees a [...]

A Bond Price Calculator

A bond is a debt security that provides a vehicle for the U.S. government, a state, a local municipality or a large corporation to borrow money. The issuer of the bond agrees to pay the lender (holder of the bond) a specified rate of interest during the bond’s life and then full repayment of [...]

Stock Tracking Software from Stock Research Pro

Stock Research Pro offers stock tracking software built into the Stock Research Pro flagship software product. The stock tracking capabilities in our software enable the user to track the stock price, price change, and volume from any screen within the application. Click on any of the stocks you’re tracking to launch right into [...]

Calculate and Interpret the Interest Coverage Ratio

The interest coverage ratio is used to measure of the number of times a company would be able to make the interest payments on its debt using its earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT). The ratio is calculated by dividing the company’s EBIT for a selected period by the interest expenses the company has [...]

Financial Ratio Analysis Software for Stock Investing

Stock Research Pro offers financial ratio analysis software as part of the new release of the SRP Valuation software package. The software was developed to help both new and seasoned stock investors to assess the financial health and strength of a company and arrive at the real or “intrinsic” value of its stock. [...]

Value Investing Software from Stock Research Pro

The Stock Research Pro Valuation software package provides the tools that value investors need to assess the financial strength of a company and arrive at the real or “intrinsic” value of a stock, based on industry-standard formulas. No other value investing software package offers all of the tools that SRP combines into a single [...]