- 行业: Financial services
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Industry:Financial services
An index based on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) system representing many domestic over-the-counter stocks.
Industry:Financial services
Your Merrill Lynch employee stock option plan recordkeeping account number. This may be a number assigned by Merrill Lynch or your Social Security number.
Industry:Financial services
Related to Equities: Ratio derived by dividing the current stock price by an earnings figure. The price can be divided by the current fiscal year earnings estimate or the trailing 12 months actual earnings. Although P/Es are subject to wide fluctuations over time due to price as well as earnings, a low P/E is typically more favorable than a high P/E.
Related to Mutual Funds: A ratio that measures how much investors are paying for a potential stream of future earnings. The price/earnings ratio of an individual company is calculated by dividing the current market price of the company's common stock by the company's earnings per common share. A fund's price/earnings ratio is calculated by averaging the price/earnings ratios of all companies whose securities are held in the fund's portfolio.
Industry:Financial services
Fund that concentrates investments in equity securities with primary trading markets or operations concentrated in the Pacific region (including Asian countries) and that specifically does not invest in Japan.
Industry:Financial services
Fund that concentrates investments in equity securities with primary trading markets or operations concentrated in the Western Pacific Basin region or a single country within this region.
Industry:Financial services
The trailing twelve month P/E ratio divided by the 5yr EPS Growth. A P/E to Growth of one or less is typically considered to be a value indicator.
Industry:Financial services
The most common measure of how expensive a stock is. Equal to a stock's capitalization divided by its after-tax earnings over a 12-month period, usually the trailing period but occasionally the current or forward period.
Industry:Financial services
Usually a four to six digit number that allows the user to access the investment account.
Industry:Financial services
Journal entries of funds from an existing account at Merrill Lynch. Examples include fund transfers between accounts, bulk transfers and retirement plan contributions from a client's CMA account.
Industry:Financial services
