Marshall Hargrave is a stock analyst and writer with 10+ years of experience covering stocks and markets, as well as analyzing and valuing companies. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant ...

Small and large businesses need to raise capital to finance growth plans. There is a cost associated with different forms of capital, such as debt, common stock and preferred stock. The weighted ...

Brian Beers is a digital editor, writer, Emmy-nominated producer, and content expert with 15+ years of experience writing about corporate finance & accounting, fundamental analysis, and investing.

Cost of capital is a term that investors and companies use to express how much it costs a firm to obtain funding for projects. This rate is used as a benchmark to evaluate potential investment ...

Many REITs talk about Weighted Average Cost of Capital, or WACC. We look at three of them, from the Net Lease sector. While WACC is of some use empirically, it is Return On Equity that matters more.

The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) is published bimonthly in February, April, June, August, October, and December by the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University ...

If you own a small business, you might decide to invest some of the company's money in securities and mutual funds. You need to figure your capital gain or loss when you sell such investments. The ...

The capital-to-risk weighted assets ratio, also known as the capital adequacy ratio, is one of the most important financial ratios used by investors and analysts. The ratio measures a bank's financial ...