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Factor




Factor

A financial institution that buys a firm's accounts receivable and collects the accounts.



SIMILAR TERMS
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Factor Ahorro, SICAV, S.A.
Factor Ahorro, SICAV, S.A. is a Spanish company listed at Madrid Stock Exchange. Its business activity is capital investment.

Factor analysis
A statistical procedure that seeks to explain a certain phenomenon, such as the return on a common stock, in terms of the behavior of a set of predictive factors.

Factor model
A way of decomposing the forces that influence a security's rate of return into common and firm-specific influences.

Factor portfolio
A well-diversified portfolio constructed to have a beta of 1.0 on one factor and a beta of zero on any other factors.

Factor return
The return attributable to a particular common factor.

Factoring
Sale of a firm's accounts receivable to a financial institution known as a factor.

Factors of production or inputs
Resources used by firms in their production processes, namely land (and the natural resources in it), labor and capital.

Factory cost
Prime cost (direct material and labor costs) plus overhead (US) or overheads (GB).



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Fusopar, SICAV, S.A. is a Spanish company listed at Madrid Stock Exchange. Its business activity is capital investment.

Futurvalor, SICAV, S.A.
Futurvalor, SICAV, S.A. is a Spanish company listed at Madrid Stock Exchange. Its business activity is capital investment.

Face amount certificate
A debt security issued by face amount. The holder makes payments periodically to the issues, and the issuer promises to pay the purchaser the face value at maturity or the surrendered value.

Facilitation
The process of providing a market for a security. Normally, this refers to bids and offers made for large blocks of securities, such as those traded by institutions.

Factor

Factor analysis
A statistical procedure that seeks to explain a certain phenomenon, such as the return on a common stock, in terms of the behavior of a set of predictive factors.

Factor model
A way of decomposing the forces that influence a security's rate of return into common and firm-specific influences.

Factor portfolio
A well-diversified portfolio constructed to have a beta of 1.0 on one factor and a beta of zero on any other factors.

Factor return
The return attributable to a particular common factor.

Factoring
Sale of a firm's accounts receivable to a financial institution known as a factor.

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