Preferred stocks generally come with a "guaranteed" dividend amount, but it's important to realize that if the company falls on tough financial times, even preferred dividends can be suspended.

A growing company generally gets working capital from two different sources: the cash flow that the business generates and additional capital from external financing sources. When a company pays ...

The Gordon model allows for the fact that the market might put a price on a stock that's different from what you might estimate using the equation above. A higher stock price than predicted implies a ...