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Definition of Blue-chip company

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Blue-chip company

Large and creditworthy company.



Related Terms:

Blue-sky laws

State laws covering the issue and trading of securities.


Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS)

An international wire transfer system for high-value
payments operated by a group of major banks.


Company-specific risk

Related: Unsystematic risk


Cost company arrangement

Arrangement whereby the shareholders of a project receive output free of
charge but agree to pay all operating and financing charges of the project.


Depository Trust Company (DTC)

DTC is a user-owned securities depository which accepts deposits of
eligible securities for custody, executes book-entry deliveries and records book-entry pledges of securities in
its custody, and provides for withdrawals of securities from its custody.


Holding company

A corporation that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and
operations by influencing or electing its board of directors.


Intercompany loan

Loan made by one unit of a corporation to another unit of the same corporation.


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Intercompany transaction

Transaction carried out between two units of the same corporation.


Companyspecific Risk

See asset-specific risk


limited liability company

an organizational form that is a hybrid of the corporate and partnership organizational
forms and used to limit the personal liability of the owners;
it is typically used by small professional (such as accounting) firms


service company

an individual or firm engaged in a high or moderate degree of conversion that results in service output


Parent company

A company that retains control over one or more other companies.


Subsidiary company

A company that is controlled by another company through ownership
of the majority of its voting stock.


company cost of capital

Expected rate of return demanded by investors in a company, determined by the average risk of the company’s assets and operations.


Blue Ribbon Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Audit Committees

A committee formed in response to SEC chairman Arthur Levitt's initiative to improve the financial
reporting environment in the United States. In a report dated February 1999, the committee
made recommendations for new rules for regulation of financial reporting in the United States that
either duplicated or carried forward the recommendations of the Treadway Commission.


Company Acquisitions

Assets acquired to create money. May include plant, machinery and equipment, shares of another company etc.


Finance Company

company engaged in making loans to individuals or businesses. Unlike a bank, it does not receive deposits from the public.


Insurance Company

A firm licensed to sell insurance to the public.


Trust Company

Organization usually combined with a commercial bank, which is engaged as a trustee for individuals or businesses in the administration of Trust funds, estates, custodial arrangements, stock transfer and registration, and other related services.


 

 

 

 

 

 

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