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Appendix
H.1
Definitions
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Business terms
H.1.3
accounting, HR management, call centers, etc.
function or process. e.g. administrative functions such as
BPO
(Business Process Outsourcing): Outsourcing of a business
CRM
(Customer Relationship Management): Managing customer
relationships (after–sales service, purchasing advice, utilization
loyalty.
efficiency, it also leads to higher sales by building customer
company’s successful operation. Not only does CRM facilitate
advice, customer loyalty) has become a strategic component of a
accounting and human resources systems into an
is capable of integrating sales, manufacturing, purchasing,
integrated management software system built in modules, which
ERP
(Enterprise Resource Planning): An ERP system is an
enterprise-wide management information system.
generally comprises several local networks and covers a large
WAN
(Wide Area Network): A long–distance network that
geographical area.
billing (no longer cross-border electronic payments surcharge).
where all transactions will be considered as domestic in terms of
European countries involving the creation of a specific zone
SEPA
(Single Euro Payments Area): Regulating initiative from
Market terms
H.1.4
Consensus:
Opinion that emerges from the financial
(market consensus).
consensus) or to a group of companies in the same sector
Consensus can relate to earnings outlook (individual stock
community, in which financial analysts play a prominent role.
impact on common stock.
converted into shares and have therefore a potential dilutive
warrants, stock subscription options, free shares, which could be
Dilutive instruments:
Financial instruments such as bonds,
that are distributed to stockholders.
Dividends:
Cash or stock payments from a company’s profits
Enterprise Value
(EV): Market capitalization + debt.
Euronext):
excludes shares in the six categories listed below (source
capital that is regularly traded on the stock exchange. It
Free float:
Free float is the proportion of a company’s share
meaning of article 233/3 of the French Commercial Code;
company held by companies that it controls within the
shares held by Group companies: Shares of the listed
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(management positions, control by voting rights, influence
founders have managerial or supervisory influence
the founders (individuals or family group) when these
shares held by founders: shares held directly or indirectly by
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that is a matter of public knowledge, etc.);
controlled by the State;
or by public sector or other companies which are themselves
shares held by the State: Interests held directly by the State,
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other than those held by founders or the State;
article 233/10 and 11 of the French Commercial Code, and
subject to a shareholders’ agreement within the meaning of
shares within the scope of a shareholders’ agreement: Shares
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meaning of article 233/3 of the French Commercial Code;
than founders or the State) exercising control within the
controlling interest: Shares held by juridical persons (other
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category also includes shareholders that, in addition to or in
the impact of dilution, in the three preceding years. This
have not declined by one percentage point or more, excluding
interests considered stable: Interests exceeding 5%, which
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agreements with the Group.
have recently entered into significant industrial or strategic
association with the link represented by share ownership,
by the number of its shares in issue.
Market capitalization:
The share price of a company multiplied
income for a trailing (or forward) 12-month period.
PER
(Price Earnings Ratio): Market capitalization divided by net
successive prices.
measured by the standard deviation of the ratio of two
Volatility:
The variability of movements in a share price,