by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles
What is Entropy? Entropy is something that measures randomness. The term is similar to infinity and analyzes how unpredictable a random variable can be. Financial experts use this term for knowing the probability of a particular type of behavior that a specific stock,...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles
What are Mid-Cap Company Shares?Mid-cap refers to public company shares that have a market capitalization or market value between $2 and $10 billion. As the name implies, it falls between large-cap and small-cap. Categories of large-cap, small-cap, and mid-cap are...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles
What is Absolute Value?An absolute value has different meanings in different contexts. In business, an absolute value refers to a valuation method used in measuring the financial status or strength of a company. This method of business valuation uses Discounted Cash...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles
What is an Accelerated Dividend?An accelerated dividend is an amount of money paid by a company before a forecasted change in dividends occur. It is often a special dividend, a lump-sum cash payment that is paid when an adverse change is likely to occur, such as...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles
What is a Financial Planner?A financial planner is a professional with expertise and experience in tax planning, investment planning, estate planning, asset planning, insurance planning, asset management, risk management, business succession planning and retirement...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles
What is Free Cash Flow?Free cash flow refers to the cash that a firm has post its cash outflow transactions which it uses for carrying its business activities and sustaining its long-term assets. Free cash flow is not the same as earnings or net income. It ascertains...
