Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ANNUAL SALES CHANGE - (%) The percentage change in sales between the most recently reported fiscal year...
  
  
• ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING - A company gathering, usually held at the end of each fiscal year, at whi...
  
  
• ANNUALIZE - a statistical technique whereby figures covering a period of less than one year are extende...
  
  
• ANNUALIZED - Translating the figures for a given year into an annual rate.
  
  
• ANNUALIZED GAIN - In a portfolio, this calculation converts the price gain or loss of a security held f...
  
  
• ANNUALIZED HOLDING-PERIOD RETURN - The annual rate of return that when compounded t times generates the...
  
  
• ANNUALIZED RETURN - The yearly increase (or decrease) in the value of an investment, including the effe...
  
  
• ANNUALIZING - See: Annual basis.
  
  
• ANNUITANT - An annuitant is a person who receives income from an annuity. If you receive a distribution...
  
  
• ANNUITIES - Contracts that guarantee income, often for an individual's lifetime, in exchange for a lump...