A minus tick (also known as a downtick) indicates a fall in the price of an asset by 1 unit. This is caused by trade at a price 1 unit lower than the previous trade. The size of a tick will vary from ...
Minority interest is an accounting concept that refers to a situation when a parent company owns over 50% of another firm. Due to the fact that the parent company has majority ownership of the subsidi...
The middle office (MO) refers to the section of a financial services firm which cannot be grouped under front office (client-facing) or back-office (operations). The middle office ...
A middle-market firm is a large firm, but smaller than some of the global giants. The typical revenue range to be classified as the middle market is $50 million to $1 billion. They are usually firms t...
A mid-year discount is a term used in a DCF analysis to discount future cash flows to a present value. The basic method of discounting cash flows is to use the formula:Cash Flow / (1 + Disco...
A mid-cap (middle capitalization) firm is one with a market capitalization between $2 and $10 billion. This figure is an approximation and may change over time or be defined differently among differen...
Mergers & Acquisitions or M&A is a group in an investment bank that is specialized in providing advisory services to clients on the purchase, sale and merger of private or public com...
A merger is when two or more companies combine to increase value and enhance operations. This is a pre-agreed action and is not seen as hostile. A merger should always provide increased benefits and E...
Megafund is simply an extremely large pool of money set up by a private equity firm for the purposes of investing in companies. The amount invested by private investors in a megafund is usua...
An MBA is a professional qualification gained from completing an MBA course at a business school. It stands for Masters of Business Administration. Typically, people working in investment banking and ...