e. increasing the number of stock shares outstanding by replacing each existing share of stock with a stated number of new shares f. a company's repurchasing, or buying back, of its own common stock g. ratio of the annual dividends to the market price of the stock h. commonly used stock index or indicator of how well stocks have done, comprised of the stock prices of 30 large industrial firms i. commonly used stock index or indicator of how well stocks have done, based on the movements of 500 stocks 1 bear market growth stocks buy-and-hold beta 2 3. 4. 5. proxy dividend reinvestment plan 6. 7. S&P 500-Stock Index 8 dividends 9 10 fundamental analysis blue-chip stocks ex-dividend date bull market 11 12 13 declaration date 14. dollar cost averaging stock repurchase Dow Jones Industrial Average technical analysis 15 16 17 18 19 20 defensive stocks stock split large, mid, and small caps dividend yield 21