With all the sturm und drang surrounding Facebook's upcoming May IPO, few media outlets are giving much oxygen to the IPO of online review hub Yelp, due March 2. It will give Yelp a market cap of around $800 million -- and the company isn't even profitable.
Despite how difficult and intimidating professional money managers and Wall Street talking heads make it seem, math for investing is material that most 10-year-olds have learned upon graduating fifth grade. Let's consider two key metrics that you'll want to consider before buying shares of any company.
Standard & Poor's will make changes to several U.S. indexes next week, including the S&P MidCap 400, the S&P SmallCap 600, and the widely used S&P 500. The changes, which reflect the effects of acquisitions and market cap changes, will occur after the close of trading on Dec. 17.
Students helped columnist Peter Cohan come up with a fresh analysis that concludes that GE's parts would be worth 16% more, broken up, than the company's current market cap. Here's what the company should try to sell -- if investors were interested in buying.
Computer maker Dell was once such a remarkable company -- executing both low-cost and high sales price strategies simultaneously -- that it was once the subject of a case study about mopping up the competition. What happened?