Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

As of 2021, the New York Stock Exchange had approximately 2,500 listed companies. The fully-digital NASDAQ had over 3,700. With so many publicly-traded companies out there, investors need a quick, ...

Efficiency ratios have been worsening for two years, with a slump in noninterest income driving much of the deterioration. The amount of money banks have to spend-on salaries, on rent for branches and ...

Operational efficiency refers to how well a business manages its resources and uses them to produce profits. While the best practices for maximizing operational efficiency are different for each ...

A mutual fund is an investment pool that allows you to invest in a diversified portfolio using far less money than if you had purchased shares individually. "Forbes" magazine suggests keeping several ...

A company with a favorable efficiency level is expected to provide stellar returns as it is believed to be positively correlated with price performance. In fact, efficiency level, which measures a ...

There are two ways a bank can cannibalize revenue and, by implication, shareholder return: They can underwrite bad loans and/or operate inefficiently — that is, to allow expenses to consume too much ...

This easy-to-calculate metric lies at the heart of successful bank stock investing. I've come to the opinion over the years that the efficiency ratio is the single most important metric for individual ...