Business / Finance Glossary

Discretionary Income: Cash flow that is available after the funding of all positive net present value (NPV) capital investment projects; it is available for paying cash dividends, repurchasing common stock, retir . . . View Full Definition

Discretionary Order: The amount of income a consumer has available after purchasing essentials such as food and shelter.

Discretionary Trust: A type of buy order that gives the broker the freedom and power to make the execution at any time and price that is seen fit and reasonable, given the investor's goals.

Discriminant Analysis: In the context of mutual funds, refers to a mutual fund or unit trust whose management decides on the best way to use the assets without restriction to a specific type of security. In the co . . . View Full Definition

Dishonor: A statistical process that links the probability of default to a specified set of financial ratios.

Disinflation: A refusal to pay.

Disintermediation: A decrease in the rate of inflation.

Disinvestment: Withdrawal of funds from a financial institution in order to invest them directly.

Disposable Income: A reduction in capital investment reflected by a decrease in capital goods and a company's decision not to replace depleted capital goods.

Distress Sale: The amount of personal income an individual has after taxes and government fees, which can be spent on necessities, or non-essentials, or be saved.

Distributed: The selling of assets under adverse conditions, e.g., an investor may have to sell securities to cover a margin call.

Distributing Syndicate: As new Treasury issues in dealers' hands are said to be distributed.

Distribution: A syndicate consisting of a number of brokerage firms or investment bankers that work together to sell and disperse a large lot of securities.

Distribution Area: Selling a large lot of a security in such a way that the security price is not heavily influenced.

Distribution Period: An established price range in which a stock has been trading in for a significant amount of time. See: Accumulation area.

Distribution Plan: The few days between the board of directors' declaration of a stock dividend (declaration date) and the date of record, or the date an individual must own shares to be entitled to a dividend.

Distribution Stock: A mutual fund's plan to charge distribution costs such as advertising to the investors of the fund.

Distributions: A small amount of a specific stock that forms part of a larger block of stock that is sold small amount by small amount so as not to disrupt the stock's market price.

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