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Gross Margin

Gross Margin

The difference between a company's revenue and the cost to produce its goods/services, divided by revenue.

The difference between a company's revenue and the cost to produce its goods/services, divided by revenue.

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OEIC

Unique to the UK, these funds pool together money to invest from multiple investors.

Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

A means of calculating the potential future return on an investment.

Holding Period Return

The amount of money generated by an asset during the time that it was held by an investor..

Profit and Loss Statement (P&L)

A statement that summarises firm's expenses, costs, and revenues incurred during a time period. AKA income statement.

Professional Client

An investor that is able to meet several regulatory criteria.

Venture Capital

A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.

Arithmetic Mean

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

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Net Income (NI)

The money a firm is left with from sales after subtracting taxes and different business costs.

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