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Balance sheet

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

Earnings per share

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

Geometric Mean Return

A way of calculating compound returns on an investment or savings over a set period of time.

Coupon

Also called a dividend, this is the fixed annual interest paid to gilt holders. It’s usually paid in two equal, semi-annual instalments and expressed as a percentage of the nominal value of the gilt.

Venture Capital

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

Yield to maturity (YTM)

What is yield to maturity and why is it useful?

Gilt

What is a gilt?

Growth stocks

These are stocks in companies that are considered to be “growing”. These companies may be delivering new products and services, or entering new markets.

NASDAQ

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.

Volatility