Carol M. Kopp edits features on a wide range of subjects for Investopedia, including investing, personal finance, retirement planning, taxes, business management, and career development. Gordon Scott ...

Bryn Harman, CFA, has 40+ years of experience in corporate finance, including as CEO/CIO of value-oriented investing firm Pelouse Capital Management. In the food chain of corporate security investors, ...

When Switzerland-based Vestergaard introduced its LifeStraw technology, it proved it could innovate. LifeStraws remove 99.99999% of bacteria and 99.9% of protozoan cysts from contaminated water. The ...

Par value is a set issuance price for bonds and minimal share price for stocks. Bond par values determine yields and coupon payments, influencing secondary market prices. Stock par values minimally ...

Enterprise value includes market cap plus total debt minus cash to gauge a firm's true worth. Using EV, investors compare financial health and real size of firms within the same industry. EV is ...

To put it simply, ethics represents the moral code that guides a person’s choices and behaviors throughout their life. The idea of a moral code extends beyond the individual to include what is ...

A stable mid-cap value index fund. Our research team assigns Gold ratings to strategies that they have the most conviction will outperform a relevant index, or most peers, over a market cycle on a ...

Everybody wants their investments to grow. For that reason, “growth” funds seem, on the surface, more appealing than those classified as “value.” However, those monikers can be deceiving. There’s a ...