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Costs and Charges

Costs and Charges

The money you pay when investing.

The money you pay when investing.

More terms

Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.

Fundamentals

The data or information that is likely to impact a company's stock price.

Value Investing

The art of buying shares which trade below their value, according to the analysis of the value investor.

Balance sheet

A summary of a company's finances, including its assets, liabilities and shareholder equity.

Diversification

An investment strategy in which money is put into a variety assets.

Stock Market

A place where shares of publicly listed companies are traded.

Account balance

The amount of money a user has stored in a financial repository.

Earnings per share

We look at what earnings per share mean and how to calculate it

Alpha

The percentage by which an investor outperforms a relevant benchmark.

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