Terms starting with S
15 entries in the StockMarket.et Financial Dictionary.
- Savings RateThe share of income you keep rather than spend, a simple gauge of how fast your financial buffer can grow.
- Secondary MarketThe market where investors buy and sell existing securities among themselves after the original issue.
- Share CapitalThe capital a company raises by issuing shares, recorded in equity on the balance sheet.
- ShareholderA person or institution that owns one or more shares in a company and therefore holds an ownership stake.
- Sovereign Credit RatingAn opinion from a rating agency on a government's ability and willingness to meet its debt obligations on time and in full.
- SpreadThe gap between the best bid and best offer prices for a security, a common measure of trading cost.
- Standing OrderAn instruction you give your bank to pay a fixed amount to a named recipient on a regular date.
- StockአክሲዮንA unit of ownership in a company, giving the holder a claim on part of its assets and profits.
- Stock Exchangeየአክሲዮን ገበያA regulated marketplace where shares and other securities are bought and sold.
- Stock SplitA company increases its share count and cuts the price per share by the same factor, leaving overall value unchanged.
- Stop-Loss OrderAn instruction to sell (or buy) if the price reaches a set level, meant to limit further losses.
- SukukIslamic finance certificates that give investors a share in ownership of an asset or project cash flows rather than a conventional interest-bearing bond.
- Sum AssuredThe fixed amount a life or related policy promises to pay on a covered event such as death or maturity.
- Supply and DemandThe basic market forces of how much is offered for sale and how much buyers want, which together set prices.
- Systematic RiskMarket wide risk that affects many assets at once and cannot be removed by diversifying across ordinary stocks alone.