Archive for February, 2007

Fundamental Analysis: How To (Part 1 – Price to Book Value)

Fundamental analysis for the individual investor is the application of those valuation measures mentioned in my previous post. It is a way that the individual investor, with minimal knowledge of true valuation metrics, can make educated decisions on a company’s stock’s current value. What is value? Value was defined in the early 1900s by Benjamin [...]

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Fundamental Analysis: Valuation Measures

As I said, we’re just going to go through basics. Nothing crazy like doing our own valuations and using discounted cash flows or reading annual reports and analyzing income statements and balance sheets. For individual investors, we likely don’t have the time to do so or won’t do it better than institutional guys who publish [...]

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