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What are Energy Sector Stocks?
The Energy Sector contains companies that are in the business of discovering, processing, or selling (or all 3) natural resources like oil, natural gas, coal, solar and wind.
Oil companies dominate the sector and are the largest players. Energy stocks are also cyclical, meaning that they tend to perform better when demand for energy is high (economic expansions).
Companies in the Energy sector are also very sensitive to changes in the price of the underlying natural resource, like oil. For example, as the price of oil rapidly declined in 2015, falling by 50+%, the earnings for virtually every energy company collapsed.
Oil prices are set by supply and demand but are vulnerable to frequent disruptions and supply controls, set by groups like OPEC.
What is the Wilshire 5000 Index?
The Wilshire 5000 is a cap-weighted index and it can be considered the broadest index of all U.S. equity markets
What are Earnings Estimates?
Earnings estimates are generally consolidated estimates which are averages of the estimates given by a number of...
What are Fibonacci Numbers?
Fibonacci numbers are part of a sequence where the ratio of two neighboring numbers is the Golden Mean
What is Dilution?
Dilution is the disassociation of value from current common stock shares due to the issuance of additional shares
What is Diminishing Marginal Utility?
Diminishing marginal utility is the decrease in the usefulness or demand for something as more and more of it is produced
What is an Account Freeze?
An account freeze stops all pending transactions and does not honor new transaction requests for a financial repository
How are Pension Benefits Computed?
Enrolled actuaries must be used to establish the benefit formula. The amount of money you will receive (monthly) from
What is FINRA?
FINRA stands for Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and they regulate securities firms in the United States
What is Volume?
Volume is a count of trades in a security or market, or their derivative instruments, in a given period of time and...
What is the Elliott Wave Theory?
Elliot Wave Theory incorporates the natural cycles of nature in an attempt to explain and predict future prices of stocks