Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Financial ratios are calculations developed using data from a company's financial statements. Managers, investors and lenders analyze financial ratios for indications of a company's performance and ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Thomas J ...

The measures of a company's success go beyond the hard cash it generates as reflected in corporate dividends. Business success also is gauged by the likelihood that the level of the dividends will ...

Dividend investing is part art, part science. Financial ratios make up most of the science behind investing. What exactly are financial ratios? For the purposes of this article, we define financial ...