Lower Manhattan is home to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), on Wall Street, and the NASDAQ, at 165 Broadway, representing the world's largest and second largest stock exchanges
A mutual fund is a portfolio of stocks or bonds that is jointly owned by a large number of investors.
The Market Capitalization of a blue chip company is usually in the billion dollars. Typically, a blue chip stock is a component of a major stock averages and indexes, such as the S&P500 index in the United States.
The P/E ratio helps investors determine the market value of a stock as compared to the company's earnings. The investor's also anticipate the earnings growth in the future.
The dividend yield or dividend-price ratio of a share is the dividend per share, divided by the price per share. It is also a company's total annual dividend payments divided by its market capitalization, assuming the number of shares is constant.
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are funds that track indexes like the NASDAQ-100 Index, S&P 500, Dow Jones, etc. When you buy shares of an ETF, you are buying shares of a portfolio that tracks the yield and return of its native index.
