what does it mean..> high early cash value?
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Go talk to a financial planner.  Asking these detailed question on a public bulletin board with out posting all of your personal financial information is a waste of your time.
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Could be a municiple or gov't bond or note, or private debt instrument issued by a corporation, like GM, as opposed to an "equity, like a stock.\n   It is a marketable debt obligation that is not predominantly speculative in nature. "Investment" grade is a rating, and therefore, the instrument is registered and offered and sold pursuant to SEC rules, and can be sold with reasonable promptness at a price that corresponds to its fair value.
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That is called a reverse split. In this case 1 for 10. I means fewer share in circulation that are not 10 times more in price. The value is not affected by a split. Usually a company that thinks their stock price is too high for investors to buy will do a split, if the price is too low or the management feels too much stock is in float they do a reverse split like you asked about.
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Suzie Orman mentioned this in her financial advices to the young.  She suggests to go to work bright and early with lots of energy, do beyond what you're asked and become an important asset of your employer.
1049470
It means that the stock is selling on the over the counter bulletin board.  This suggests that it is a stock that doesn't live up to the guidelines necessary to trade on the regular market.  In general, it means you should avoid the stock unless you have outstanding certainty that it's worth gambling.  \n\nThis question has been answered before, so I included the link to it as well.
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http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/finder/deluxestockscreen.aspx?query=New+52-Week+Highs
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You have some interesting questions.  There is no correct answer to them unfortunately.  \n\nSmall cap vs large cap.   Surprisingly small cap as commonly defined is in fact rather large.  Most consider companies with less than two billion dollars in market capitalization as small cap.\nLarge cap are considered companies with market capitalization of greater than $10 billion.  Those in between are considered mid cap.  Companies with less than $300 million in market captialization are considered micro cap. So actually there are 4 categories.\n\nmicro cap\nsmall cap\nmid cap\nlarge cap\n\nHeck some even break the categories down finer. One problem with these categories is that they are based on market value, not sales, not assets, not earnings, but what people are willing to pay for them.  Consequently, if investors have bid up the price of the stock to extremely high levels, a company might be considered large cap when in fact it is a small company. Sort of dumb. \n\nSmall cap stocks in general outperform large cap stocks but are much more volitile.  The reason generally is that small cap stocks have more growth potential than large cap stocks.  They do however also have more potential for failure.\n\nStocks that have hit new highs do not have any overhead supply waiting to be dumped on the market, so they are considered to have more upside potential than stocks that have fallen in price.  With stocks that have fallen in price, there are a lot of people waiting for the stock to recover to the price they paid for it to sell and recover their funds. Not the case with stocks that have hit new highs.  And Newton's 1st law of motion is considered to apply to stocks as well on bodies.  "A body in motion will tend to remain in motion until acted upon by an external force".  So a stock rising in price will be expected to continue rising in price and vice versa.\n\nThe last question is the most difficult to answer.  For myself, anything above a pe of 20 is highly suspect.  But I am in the definite minority.  Many investors now look more closely at the PEG than the PE.  The PEG is the PE divided by the expected growth rate.  If the PEG is below 1.0, the stock is considered a bargain.  If it is above 2.0, the stock is considered very expensive.  The problem is the the expected growth rate is just a wild guess.
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Typically it means "interim" financial until more permanent debt can be arranged ---generally there is a permanent lender ready to lend but their may be a timing issue or some conditions to be met before the permanent lender can fund -- the borrower then seeks out a bridge loan (typically at a higher rate) until she/he can close on the permanent financning
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the simple method is when your current liabilities are greater than your current assets and your long term assets are not easily liquidated/borrowed against AND your prospects for future cash flow do not appear to be able to cover your future immediate liabilities.  Also, if you are avoiding creditor calls (business or personal) for most of your day, it's probably time to file or close down.
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Selling at a premium means that its market value is higher than par (or face) value.\nThat usually happens when the coupon rate is higher than the market yield to the same duration
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If they are sold to stockholders in exchange for cash, the cash is booked as paid-in capital.  (Actually, I believe the portion of the payment that constitutes payment of par value is booked as stockholder's equity, and the portion of payment that is above par value is tracked separately as paid-in capital in excess of par value.)  These are balance sheet items -- the company does not experience income when it sells its stock.
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The answer is two fold. A high loonie means job cuts, which is bad. Because the money is worth more, it is more expesive for foreign buyers to purchase from Canada, which means decreased buisiness. However, a higher loonie is good news for companies that import goods from other countries, primarily the US. As well, it is positive news for Canadian vacationers bound for US desinations.
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It becomes physically worth more because of this:\n(This is a really primitive example) Say stock XYZ is woth 1.00 dollars. Joe owns one share of XYZ that he wishes to sell. Paul heard that XYZ is coming out with a really cool new product, and he wants to invest in the company by buying one share of it. This creates demand for the stock, so price will increase. Paul agrees to buy his share from Joe for 1.01 dollars. He pays a premium of one cent because he created demand for it, and upon the transaction, that stock is up .01 cents that day.\nHope that helps...
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It is a Public Income note - basically a hybrid equity/debt security.  Companies issue them to raise capital, much like a preferred stock.  People buy them for the dividend flow, typically.
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Yes and it does have to do with dividends.  You'll want to exercise early if the stock is about to pay a dividend and the "time value" of the option is less than the dividend.  \n\nWhat does that mean?  Well, a stock's price should drop after a dividend is paid so if the current market price is just slightly above your option's strike price, the option could go from an "in the money" option (meaning if you exercise you'll get some cash) to an "out of the money" option (meaning you'll get nothing).  Still, even this wouldn't mean that you'd definitely want to exercise the option unless the expiry date of the option was also coming up.  I.e. the stock price doesn't have a reasonable chance of recovering from the dividend payment to get back "into the money".
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If the stock price is cheap, then a normal transaction of, say, 10000$ requires more shares so the volume looks high.  Contrast this to Berkshire, where people might trade just 1 share at a time, so the volume every day is low.
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Neither a high nor a low p/e ratio is technically better than another.  Currently, Google is trading at a P/E ratio of 104.94, which is pretty high.  Microsoft is trading at a P/E ratio of 23.1 which is pretty stable, Yahoo is trading at a P/E ratio of 39.18.  \n\nTypically a company will have a higher P/E ratio when the public expects big things in the future, and a lower P/E ratio, when expectations are not as high and their earnings have become more stable. This is certainly not a bad thing at all, this just means that the public is valuing this company like it can depend on their future earnings, it has a lower P/E because people have decided that they feel confident about what the future earnings will be.  \n\nYou may have heard the term that a stock is "cheap" right now, and that could be because it is an established company, that has historically traded at a P/E ratio of 25, and then, for seemingly no good reason, it is currently trading at 15.  Many experts think this is the case right now with many big dependable stocks, because they feel people may be over-valuing and expecting too much from many small company stocks.  \n\nSo unfortunately there is no short answer, it is relative to other companies in the same industry at the same point in time, and it is relative to the company's prior P/E ratio.  Also, it depends on your risk aversion, a stock with a very high P/E ratio may be more risky than a stock with a lower, and a more dependable, P/E ratio. If they have a high P/E ratio, that means that today's value is based on the fact that the trading public expect big things from this company in the future, and if those big things don't happen (dot.com bust comes to mind) then the stock prices will depreciate as a result of not meeting those high expectations. \n\nThis is not the case every time, and you should always do your research before making investment decisions.  Hope this helps!\n\nA good link for more information on this subject is http://www.investopedia.com/university/peratio/