Net asset value
A fund's total holdings minus liabilities, divided by shares outstanding. Computed daily for mutual funds.
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- Asset allocation
How your money is split among stocks, bonds, cash, and other things. It decides most of your result.
- Asset location
Which account each investment lives in for tax reasons; bonds in tax deferred, stocks in Roth or taxable, roughly.
- Enterprise value
What it would cost to buy a whole company: market value plus debt minus cash.
- face value
The amount of money the borrower promises to return to you at the end of a bond agreement. If you bought a bond for one thousand dollars and that is what they pay back at the end, one thousand dollars is the face value.
- Intrinsic value (options)
The amount an option is in the money: for a call, stock price minus strike, if positive.
- Lifetime value (LTV)
What a customer pays over the time they stay, minus what they cost to serve.
- Par value
A bond's face value.
- Time value
The portion of an option's premium above intrinsic value, reflecting remaining time and expected movement.
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