Counterparty Risk is the risk that an investor is exposed to when taking out any kind of contractual position (CDS, option, future etc.) The risk is that one (or both) of the parties involved will not...
Cost of Goods Sold (or COGS) is the total cost of sales for the entire output of a company. It is the sum of the cost of each good sold. This is another crucially important financial figure for analys...
Cost of Equity is a measure used in analysis and valuation which tells you the rate of return required by an investor (including dividends) to incentivize them to take the risk of investing in the com...
Convertible bonds are a security which is issued by a company as a means of raising money. They are essentially a combination of debt and equity. Convertibles are issued as bonds with an interest rate...
Convergence is when two items move in different directions to each other but towards the same point. In finance the term convergence is applied to assets, indicators and indices.Convergence can provid...
Contango is a trading term used to refer to a situation where the price of a future for a specific asset is higher than the expected spot price at the time of the expiration of the future. F...
Contagion is the term used in economics to describe the situation where financial instability in one sector or economy can spread to a different sector or economy. The term comes from the study of con...
The most common way to value a company is through the use of comparable analysis. This method attempts to find a group of companies which are comparable to the target company and to work out a va...
Common Stock is a security issued by a company and it represents partial ownership of that company. The holder has voting rights over corporate strategy and election of the board of directors.In the e...
A commodity is any good that is identical (or very similar) from any producer, i.e. producers have to compete on price. They are usually used in production of other goods or services.The most common t...