A Guide to Wall Street Lingo
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Breaking Down Wall Street Language
Top 7 CNBC All-Star Contributors
Investing News Worth Reading 📰
A Conversation with…The Audio Series 🎙
The Week Ahead
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Wall Street “Lingo”
Trying to understand financial commentators, CEOs and pro investors on CNBC and Bloomberg can sound like an unfamiliar language at times. We completely understand. Here’s a list of a few common terms and quotes “professionals” like to toss around in the hope to make you a more informed investor.
Terms and Phrases
Value vs. growth stocks - Growth stocks are companies expected to grow sales and earnings at a faster rate than the market average. Growth stocks almost always look expensive, but may actually be cheap “if” (and that’s a big if) the company continues to grow rapidly and executes. Examples of growth stocks are Peloton, Crowdstrike, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix. On the other hand, value stocks trade at price levels perceived by investors to be below their fundamentals and often include a high dividend yield. Examples include Coca-Cola, AT&T, ExxonMobil and ViacomCBS.
“There’s froth in the markets” - Like froth on top of your favorite latte, stock market froth means overall market prices have risen and seem to be at the top, or overbought. Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator, mentions this phrase when he sees overall market prices have gone up significantly.
“I see the Fed getting hawkish/dovish” - The terms “hawkish” and “dovish” are used to describe the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy. Every quarter, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, announces the Fed’s plans and actions moving forward. “Dovish” policies promote economic growth, while “hawkish” policies focus on controlling inflation. Setting and controlling interest rates are a key component in achieving the intended policy.
“I like the market sentiment moving forward” - Market sentiment refers to the overall consensus about a stock or the stock market as a whole. Sentiment is the tone or psychology of a stock or the overall stock market, which can be bullish when prices are rising, or bearish when prices are falling.
Oscillator - Jim Cramer, a veteran investor on Wall Street and host of CNBC’s Mad Money, mentions the “S&P Oscillator” fairly often. An oscillator is an overall market or index indicator used by professional traders and investors to signal when a market or index may be overbought or oversold. For example, when Jim Cramer says “the oscillator is getting hot,” it means the market is becoming overbought.
“Investment Firm X upgrades/downgrades a stock” - Wall Street firms and financial institutions have teams of “professional” research analysts who analyze financial market trends and create models projecting into the future based on a company’s history. They do this by examining, interpreting and reporting on data collected. These firms publish price targets on a given stock with common terms such as “upgrade” and “downgrade” used frequently. These price targets can then be positive or negative catalysts for a company. However, not all price target reports should be perceived equally: Be conscience of an analyst’s reputation, their historical accuracy and diligence in a given report. A timeline of 12-18 months is standard for most published price targets.
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