C | Glossary of Terms and Company Profiles
A chart style that includes a body and a top and bottom "wick". The top of the "wick" is the high of the day and the bottom the low of the day. On an up day the top of the body is the close and the bottom the open. On a down day the top of the body is the open and the bottom the close.
Avis Budget Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides car and truck rentals, and ancillary services to businesses and consumers. The company supplies rental cars to the premium commercial and leisure segments of the travel industry under the Avis brand name; and to the value-conscious segments of the industry under the Budget brand name.
Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. owns and operates coffeehouses. The company offers premium coffee and espresso-based beverages, as well as specialty teas, handcrafted beverages, foods, coffee lifestyle items, branded merchandise, and related products. It also sells whole bean and ground coffee to grocery stores, mass merchandisers, office coffee providers, airlines, hotels, sports and entertainment venues, college campuses, and online customers.
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the research, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products that address unmet medical needs in the acute care environment.
Constellation Energy Group, Inc. operates as an energy company in the United States and Canada. The company develops, owns, operates, and maintains fossil and renewable generating facilities.
CF Industries Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, CF Industries, Inc., manufactures and distributes nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer products, serving agricultural and industrial customers worldwide. It operates in two segments, Nitrogen and Phosphate.
A range between support and resistance that a stock trades in for a period of time.
A professional designation that confirms proficiency in the technical analysis of financial markets.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. develops, markets, and supports a range of software, and combined hardware and software products and services for information technology (IT) security applications worldwide. The company offers a range of network and gateway security solutions, data and endpoint security solutions, and management solutions.
Cobalt International Energy, Inc. operates as an independent oil-focused exploration and production company. The company focuses on the deepwater of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, and offshore Angola and Gabon in West Africa.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. develops and operates fast-casual, fresh Mexican food restaurants in the United States. It also operates restaurants in Toronto, Canada and in London, the United Kingdom.
CMS Energy Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company primarily in Michigan. The company operates in three segments: Electric Utility, Gas Utility, and Enterprises.
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in the motion picture exhibition business. As of June 30, 2011, it operated 436 theatres with 4,983 screens in 39 states of the United States, as well as in Brazil, Mexico, and 11 other Latin American countries.
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation operates as an independent oil and gas company in the United States. The company engages in the development, exploitation, exploration, production, and marketing of natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids.
A gap in a stock price caused by normal conditions. These gaps are usually closed quickly.
A situation in which a predicted pattern moves in the direction previously indicated.
Movement of a stock price in a well defined trading level. Generally considered a period of indecision.
A consolidating pattern that is expected to move in the direction of the previous trend.
Ceradyne, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of technical ceramic products, ceramic powders, and components for defense, industrial, automotive/diesel, and commercial applications in the United States and internationally.
A credit transaction is one in which the net sale proceeds are larger than the net buy proceeds (cost), thereby bringing money into the account.
Cree, Inc. develops and manufactures light emitting diodes (LEDs), LED lighting, and semiconductor solutions for wireless and power applications.
salesforce.com, inc. provides customer and collaboration relationship management (CRM) services to various businesses and industries worldwide. It also offers a technology platform for customers and developers to build and run business applications.
Position on a stock chart where the price and a technical indicator intersect.
Crocs, Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of footwear, apparel, and accessories for men, women, and children. The company primarily offers casual and athletic shoes, and shoe charms. It also designs and sells a range of footwear and accessories that utilize its proprietary closed cell-resin, called Croslite. The companys footwear products include boots, sandals, sneakers, mules, and flats. In addition, it provides footwear products for the hospital, restaurant, hotel, and hospitality markets, as well as general foot care and diabetic-needs markets.
Cirrus Logic, Inc. develops high-precision analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). The company offers analog and mixed-signal audio converter and audio digital signal processor (DSP) products, which include analog-to-digital converters (ADCs); digital-to-analog converters (DACs); chips for integrating ADCs and DACs into an IC; digital interface ICs; volume controls; and digital amplifiers, as well as audio DSPs for consumer electronics applications, such as A/V receivers, digital TVs, and CobraNet ICs and modules for networked audio applications.
Coinstar, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides automated retail solutions primarily in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. The company's core automated retail businesses include the redbox self-service DVD rental; and Coinstar self-service coin-counting brands. It operates self-service DVD kiosks, which enable costumers to rent or purchase movies.
A price pattern where the initial action resembles a cup followed by a small downtrend considered a handle.
CVR Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in refining and marketing transportation fuels in the United States. The company also produces and markets nitrogen fertilizer products. It operates through two segments, Petroleum and Nitrogen Fertilizer.
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets mixed-signal programmable solutions worldwide. Its Consumer and Computation division offers PSoC devices (Programmable System-on-Chip) for consumer, industrial, medical, and system management applications; TrueTouch touchscreen controllers; CapSense touch-sensing solutions; Universal Serial Bus (USB) controllers, USB hubs, transceivers, serial interface engines, and embedded-host products; WirelessUSB; programmable clocks for devices requiring multiple frequencies; and RoboClock Clock Buffers to offer a timing solution for designers of communications, computation, and storage networking applications