A measure of a bond issuer's credit quality, or its ability to meet future contractual obligations. Two widely used bond rating systems are those of Moody's Investor Service and Standard & Poor's Corporation.
Each blueprint has a quality rating. This is a representation of your chances of success in crafting this item.
Quality ratings are entered in an issuer's record in the add/edit institutions screen under the Activity menu. The program automatically enters the information in the Quality Rating field when an issuer is selected in the investment display screen. The quality rating can be obtained from Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's Corporation, Fitch or other rating services, which provide standards for estimating the financial security of an investment. Quality rating can be set as a column heading as part of the Portfolio Management Report Setup.
Judgment of creditworthiness and risk of default of an issuer as determined by an investor's rating service such as Fitch's, Moody's, or Standard & Poor's.
A system used to inform the viewer of a television show's quality, usually using a star system (****). The more stars present the better the rating.
On a scale of one to five stars, Telephone-service.info rates the quality of each long distance company. This rating is based on the number of complaints the FCC receives about that particular company. Click here for more information about the telephone-service.info quality ratings.
In the insurance industry, an alphabetical grade or rating assigned to an insurer by an insurance rating agency to indicate the level of the insurance company's financial strength, its ability to pay its obligations to customers, or its ability to pay its obligations to creditors.