Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Qualifying ratios are financial metrics that lenders use to assess a borrower's ability to ...

Liquidity ratios are key financial ratios used by internal and external analysts to gauge a company's liquidity, which represents its capacity to pay its existing short-term liabilities if it needs to ...

Smart investors use financial ratios to analyze a company's financial performance before making an investment. Financial ratios reveal how a company is financed, how it uses its resources, its ability ...

When it comes to investing, you've likely heard the arguments for putting your hard-earned money into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) or mutual funds to diversify your portfolio or to allocate more of ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Yarilet Perez ...

Check both net and gross expense ratios when choosing funds; discounts may be temporary. Aim for funds with low expense ratios to enhance investment returns over time. Passively managed index funds ...