The FTSE 100, widely known as the Footsie, is a major market capitalization-weighted index consisting of 100 blue-chip stocks listed on the London Stock Exchange, commonly referenced for gauging the performance of leading companies in the UK.
Large-cap stocks, also known as big-cap stocks, are shares of companies with a large market capitalization, typically $5 billion or more.
Market Value is a financial metric that measures the value of an asset or company determined by the current market price of its shares or assets. Distinguished from book value, it reflects real-time valuation and investor sentiment.
Microcap stocks refer to the shares of publicly traded companies with a market capitalization typically between $50 million and $300 million. These stocks are usually associated with smaller, lesser-known companies and are considered high-risk, high-reward investments.
Mid-Cap stocks typically have a market capitalization between $1 billion and $5 billion, positioned between small-cap and large-cap stocks. These stocks often offer a blend of stability and growth potential.
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization. It provides a platform for buying and selling an extensive range of securities, including stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments.
Outstanding shares represent the total number of a company's shares that are currently held by all its shareholders, including share blocks held by institutional investors and restricted shares owned by the company’s officers and insiders.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is the principal stock market of the People's Republic of China, established in its contemporary form in 1990. As the fifth-largest stock exchange globally by market capitalization, it plays a crucial role in Chinese and international finance. The main indicator is the SSE Composite Index.
Small-cap stocks refer to the stocks of publicly traded companies with a market capitalization typically between $300 million and $2 billion. They are considered less well-established but often exhibit faster growth potential compared to mid-cap and large-cap stocks.
A stock buyback, also known as a share repurchase, is a process where a company purchases its own shares from the marketplace, reducing the number of outstanding shares.
A stock split is a corporate action in which a company divides its existing shares into multiple shares to boost the liquidity of the shares. Although the number of shares outstanding increases, the value of each share is reduced proportionately, so the total market capitalization remains the same.
A weighted average, or weighted mean, is an arithmetic average that factors the varying degrees of importance of the numbers in a data set. Instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.
