What Is Short Interest and What Does It Signal?
Short interest is shares sold short and not yet covered, often as a percentage of float. What high short interest signals, days to cover and why squeezes start.
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Why Companies Buy Back Their Own Shares
Buybacks return cash by cutting the share count, lifting EPS. S&P 500 companies spent a record $942.5 billion in 2024. Why companies do it, the pros and cons.
What Is Sector Rotation?
Sector rotation is money moving between stock sectors as growth, inflation and rate expectations change. How it works, typical patterns by cycle and its limits.
Revenue vs Earnings: Which Moves a Stock More?
Revenue shows demand; earnings show profit after costs. Growth stocks are judged on revenue, mature ones on earnings. Which moves a stock more, compared.
How to Calculate Gross, Operating and Net Margin
Gross, operating and net margin each divide a profit line by revenue. A worked example gives 40%, 15% and 9.75%, and what each margin tells you.
How to Calculate and Read a P/E Ratio
P/E = share price ÷ earnings per share. A $150 stock earning $6 a share trades at 25 times earnings. How to calculate trailing and forward P/E and read them.
Large-Cap, Mid-Cap and Small-Cap Stocks Compared
Stocks are grouped by market cap. How large, mid and small caps differ in risk, liquidity, volatility and sensitivity to the economy, and what that means.
How Interest Rates Affect Stock Prices
Higher rates raise borrowing costs, make bonds more competitive and shrink the value of future profits, weighing on stocks. How it works, with 2022 as example.
How to Read an Income Statement
Start with revenue, subtract costs to gross profit, operating income and net income, check margins and one-off items: how to read an income statement.
How to Research a Stock Before Trading Its CFD
Check the business, results and guidance, valuation, upcoming events, short interest and liquidity, then size the trade: a stock research checklist for CFDs.
How to Read an Earnings Report
Compare revenue and EPS with estimates, then read guidance, margins and key metrics, check one-offs and listen to the call: how to read an earnings report.
Growth Stocks vs Value Stocks
Growth stocks are priced for fast future earnings; value stocks trade cheaply against current profits. How they differ, how rates affect each, what 2022 showed.