A type of preferred stock that gives the holder the right to receive dividends equal to the normally specified rate that preferred dividends receive as well as an additional dividend based on some predetermined condition. The investors who purchased these stocks receive their regular dividend regardless of how well or how poorly the company performs, assuming of course, the company does well enough to make the annual dividend payments. If the company achieves predetermined sales, earnings or profitability goals, the investors receive an additional dividend.

The percentage of earnings paid out as dividends to shareholders. The amount that is kept by the company is often used for growth and is called retained earnings.

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A stock's price-to-earnings (see Price/Earnings) ratio divided by the growth rate of its earnings for a specified time period. The price/earnings to growth (PEG) ratio is used to determine a stock's value while taking the company's earnings growth into account, and is considered to provide a more complete picture than the P/E ratio. While a high P/E ratio may make a stock look like a good buy, factoring in the company's growth rate to get the stock's PEG ratio can tell a different story. The lower the PEG ratio, the more the stock may be undervalued given its earnings performance. This is a TTM figure (see Trailing Twelve Months).

The company's phone number.

Ranked behind the company's prior preferred stock (see Prior Preferred Stock), these issues receive preference over all other classes of the company's preferred except for the prior preferred. If the company issues more than one issue of preference preferred, then the various issues are ranked by their relative seniority.

A class of ownership in a corporation that has a higher claim on its assets and earnings than common stock. Preferred stock holders usually get a dividend paid to them before common stock holders (see Common Stock), but they usually do not have the voting rights.

Preferred stock that includes an option for the holder to convert the preferred shares into common shares. Also, see Preferred Stock.

A type of preferred stock that cannot be sold back to the company until a stated redemption date. Also, see Preferred Stock.

Represents Preferred Stock values not classified as Convertible, Redeemable or Non-Redeemable (see Prior Preferred Stock, Preference Preferred Stock, Participating Preferred Stock, Cumulative Preferred Stock).

A type of preferred stock that allows the issuer to buy back the stock at a certain price and retire it. Also, see Preferred Stock.

Prepaid expenses are future expenses that have been paid in advance. For example, insurance is a prepaid expense, because the purpose of purchasing insurance is to buy proactive protection in case something unfortunate happens. Initially recorded as assets, prepaid value is expensed over time as the benefit is received onto the income statement.

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The most recent price of a security.

The difference in stock price from one period to another. Daily price change is the most commonly used computation, although any other variation can be calculated.

The rate of return on an investment over a period of time that takes into account capital gains only.

Price to book ratio compares a stock’s market daily value to its quarterly book value. This ratio indicates how much shareholders are paying for the net assets of a company and answers the question: how many times a company’s stock is trading per share compared to the company’s book value per share. A lower P/B could mean that the stock is undervalued and may have a potential for future growth, however, other valuation measures should be considered before investing. Generally, a P/B ratio of 1.0 or less is viewed as good.

A ratio that measures the value of a company by comparing its current share price to its earnings per share. A high P/E ratio suggests that investors are expecting higher earnings growth.

This is a TTM figure (see Trailing Twelve Months).

A stock's price-to-earnings (see Price/Earnings) ratio divided by the growth rate of its earnings for a specified time period. The price/earnings to growth (PEG) ratio is used to determine a stock's value while taking the company's earnings growth into account, and is considered to provide a more complete picture than the P/E ratio. While a high P/E ratio may make a stock look like a good buy, factoring in the company's growth rate to get the stock's PEG ratio can tell a different story. The lower the PEG ratio, the more the stock may be undervalued given its earnings performance.

This is a TTM figure (see Trailing Twelve Months).

A ratio that measures value placed on each dollar of a company’s sales or revenues. Generally, a stock with lower P/S ratio is a better investment since the investor pays less for each unit of sales.

This is a TTM figure (see Trailing Twelve Months).

A type of preferred stock that has a higher claim on assets and dividends than other issues of preferred stock. If a firm did not generate enough money to fulfill all of its dividend schedule requirements, those holding prior preferred stocks have first priority. If the company has only enough money to meet the dividend schedule on one of the preferred issues, it makes the dividend payments on the prior preferred. As with many other lower risk investments, these stocks normally offer a lower rate of return relative to other forms of stock because they are subject to less risk.

A measure of how well a company controls its costs. It is calculated by dividing a company’s profit by its revenues and expressing the result as a percentage. The higher the profit margin is, the better the company is thought to control costs.

This is a TTM figure (see Trailing Twelve Months).