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Speculative – Stocks that are highly unpredictable. Stock investments are volatile and can lead to large profits or severe losses.…

Spin-Offs – Occurs when an existing publicly owned company sells a part of its assets or distributes new shares in…

Spread – The difference between the current bid and ask prices for a stock at any given time.

Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) – A popular measure of stock prices consisting of 500 large companies that represent…

Stock – A type of security that signifies ownership in a corporation and represents a claim on a part of…

Stock Exchange – A market in which stocks are bought and sold. Where brokers gather to buy and sell stocks…

Stockholders/Shareholders – One who owns shares in a business.

Stock Index – A statistical gauge that uses a given number of stocks to measure changes in the overall stock…

Stock Splits – When a company divides each of the outstanding shares of a company thereby lowering the price per…

Street Name – Registering stock in the name of a broker who keeps the stock on behalf of the investor…

Subsidiary – A company that is 50% or more owned by another company, called a parent company.

Sustainability – The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines sustainability as: “Everything that we need for our survival and well-being…

Sustainable Investing – A term for investments that seek both positive financial returns and a positive long-term impact on society.…

Ticker – A worldwide electronic system that continuously shows the price and volume of a stock as it is traded.

Tombstone Ad – An announcement appearing in financial publications such as The Wall Street Journal announcing a company’s Initial Public…

Total Return – The annual percentage change in a stock investment resulting from dividends and changes in stock prices. The…

Trade Date – The date when the purchase or sale of a bond is transacted.

Treasury Note – An IOU issued by the U.S. Treasury when it borrows money for more than one year but…

U.S. Treasury Bonds – US Treasury bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United State government.…

Underwrite – The process in which an investment bank buys and then resells a company’s new issue of stock.