Archive for the 'Fundamental Analysis' Category


Fundamental Analysis: How To (Part 2 - Price to Earnings Ratio)

Monday, March 12th, 2007

I’ve probably given you all more than enough time to read the Tweedy Browne article I mentioned in my last post. That being said, maybe some people are too lazy or just want to hear my wonderful re-cap of Price to Earnings - why and how we use it.
Why is price to earnings important? Unlike […]

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

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

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 […]

Fundamental Analysis: Valuation Measures

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

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 […]

Fundamental Versus Technical Analysis

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

As you may be able to tell, I am personally a rather large proponent of technical analysis and almost always use technical indicators when trading. It may seem odd that it is possible to pick a stock completely based on charts of the stock’s price movements and volume changes. Afterall, investing in the stock market […]


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