Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), licensed realtor and ...

In order to operate, your business must sell goods or services, buy equipment, pay its bills and receive payment from customers. Operating efficiency ratios provide numerical feedback about how ...

Liquidity is the ability of a business to meet its short-term financial obligations. Several common liquidity ratios are used to measure a business's overall financial picture. By measuring liquidity, ...

Efficiency and operating ratios measure overheads as a percentage of operating revenues or fee income; in effect, they measure how efficiently a company is being operated. They are generally favored ...

A routine check on one's mutual funds is important. It helps to understand where one is and seems to be heading. The primary method is to look at its returns vis-à-vis its benchmark index. But for a ...

Liquidity ratios are key financial ratios used by internal and external analysts to gauge a company's liquidity, which represents its capacity to pay its existing short-term liabilities if it needs to ...

The objective of this ongoing educational series of blog posts is to sort through, explain, and organize all of the various performance metrics that are available to the financial analyst, but most ...

The Treynor Ratio is an easy-to-calculate ratio that measures portfolio performance on a risk-adjusted basis. Investors and academics have long sought for a way to compare the performance of ...