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Vendor
Seller or supplier.
Venture capital
An investment in a start-up business that is perceived to have excellent growth_opportunity but does not have access to capital_market. Type of financing sought by early-stage companies seeking to grow rapidly.
Venture capital limited partnership
A partnership between a startup company and a brokerage firm or entrepreneurial company that provides capital for the new business in return for stock in the company and a share of the profits.
Vertical acquisition
Buying or taking over a firm in the same industry in which the acquired firm and the acquiring firm represent different steps in the production process.
Vertical analysis
Dividing each expense item in the income statement of a given year by net sales to identify expense items that rise more quickly or more slowly than a change in sales.
Vertical line charting
A form of technical charting that shows the high, low, and closing prices of a stock or a market on each day on one vertical line with the closing price indicated by a short horizontal mark.
Vertical merger
When one firm acquires another firm that is in the same industry but at another stage in the production cycle. For example, the firm being acquired serves as a supplier to the firm doing the acquiring.
Vertical spread
Simultaneous purchase and sale of two options that differ only in their exercise price. See Also: Horizontal spread
Vessel
A conveyance for the transport of goods by water.
Vest
Become applicable or exercisable. A term mainly used on the context of employee stock ownership or option programs. Employees might be given equity in a firm but they must stay with the firm for a number of years before they are entitled to the full equity. This is a vesting provision. It provides incentive for the employee to perform.
Vesting
Nonforfeitable ownership (or partial ownership) by an employee of the retirement account balances or benefits contributed on the employees behalf by an employer. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 established minimum vesting rights for employees based on their years of service—full vesting in five years or 20% vesting per year starting by the end of the third year.
Vesting Schedule
Schedule setting forth when, and to what extent, options become exercisable or restricted stock or stock units are no longer subject to forfeiture (for example, 20% per year over five years).
Veterans Administration (VA) mortgage
A home mortgage loan granted by a lending institution to U.S. veterans and guaranteed by the Veterans Administration.
VG
The ISO 3166 country code for VIRGIN ISLANDS, BRITISH.
VI
The ISO 3166 country code for VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S..
Vienna Convention
Common name for the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. They are a body of law governing the international sale of goods between parties domiciled in member countries.
Vienna Stock Exchange
One of the world's oldest exchanges, which accounts for approximately 50% of Austrian stock transactions ; the balance are traded OTC.
Vignette
A symbol or pictorial representation of the corporation on a stock certificate. Usually a complicated and artistic design, it is meant to make the counterfeiting of stock certificates as difficult as possible.
Virtual currency option
A new option contract introduced by the PHLX in 1994 that is settled in US dollars rather than in the underlying currency. These options are also called 3-Ds (dollar-denominated delivery).
Visible supply
New municipal_bond issues scheduled to come to market within the next 30 days.
VIX
The implied volatility on the S&P 100 (OEX) option. This volatility is meant to be a forward looking volatility. It is calculated from both calls and puts that are near the money. The VIX is a popular measure of market risk.
VN
The ISO 3166 country code for VIET NAM.
VND
The ISO 4217 currency code for the Vietnamese Dong.
Volatility
A measure of risk based on the standard deviation of the asset return. Volatility is a variable that appears in option pricing formulas, where it denotes the volatility of the underlying asset return from now to the expiration of the option. There are volatility indexes. Such as a scale of 1-9; a higher rating means higher risk.
Volatility risk
The risk in the value of options portfolios due to the unpredictable changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
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