/biz/ - Business & Finance

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>>54105937
he's right, Margin Call is boring. Same goes for Boiler Room. Neither movie holds a candle to Wall Street, Wolf of Wall Street, or The Big Short. Even Barbarians at the Gate and Trading Places were substantially better.

>>53985028
please delete this

>>53985269
for sure, XMR and confidential smart contracts are very similar, good call, guess I'll market sell now

In traditional finance, a public company has its "books'' (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statements, etc), which tells you, on paper, what a company is worth. By analyzing a company's books, one is able to determine a "fair market valuation," that is, what a company should be trading at, based on its financial statements. This is different from the "current market value," which is whatever the company is currently trading at on the open market.

Oftentimes, there is a discrepancy between the fair market value of a company, and whatever it happens to be trading at (current market value). If a company is trading at a power valuation than its fair market value, the company is considered undervalued, and a good investment at current prices. If the company is trading at higher than its fair market value, then the company is considered overvalued, and not a good investment at current prices.

"Stocks," are representations of shares of equity in a publicly traded company. Equity is ownership of the actual company. If you own 1% of the shares, you own 1% of the company. If you own 10% of the shares, you own 10% of the company. Etc. The price of an individual stock is the same as the total price of the company, divided by the total number of shares of stock there are. This is also referred to as market capitalization, or market cap.

>>51351986
>she aint no hoe