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Limit Up posted:
P/E is price over earnings per share. It can be shown as either trailing twelve months(ttm) or as a forward ratio. P/E ttm refers to price over EPS accumulated over the previous twelve months. Forward P/E refers to price over next year's anticipated earnings per share. Generally speaking, the higher the P/E, the more optimistic investors are about a company's future earnings.
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Jack posted:Most market participants use FCF before any of that EPS stuff too. See CRM & VMW for obvious examples. From what I understand, you shouldn't be to quick to dismiss relative valuation methods(comparing P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, and other ratios to competitors and industry averages to find relatively undervalued stocks) in favor of discounted cash flows. Tiny miscalculations in the discount rate or other inputs to a DCF model can have huge impacts on your valuation. Because of this, there are still quite a few managers and analysts who favor using multiples to value stocks. TheChimney fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Feb 9, 2010 |
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Feb 9, 2010 20:57
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Feb 9, 2010 21:00
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Hobologist posted:FCF, not DCF. FCF is said to be more useful than earnings; it is earnings plus depreciation and amortization minus capital expenditures, and relieves certain businesses of excessive depreciation charges. Qwest, for example, looks more attractive when you put back about $800 million in excessive depreciation every year. Sorry, whenever I have spoken about FCF with other it has been about forecasting FCF in the future and discounting them to present value. I agree with you that FCF are more useful than Earnings. As one of my professors says, "earnings is just an opinion, cash is a fact."
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Feb 10, 2010 03:15
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Hobologist posted:and the majority of their total investment holdings falls due between 2010 and 2013, a period future economists may be calling the Great Municipal Bankruptcy Wave. Do you have a source on this? I would be interested in reading more about it.
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Feb 12, 2010 01:05
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Is there a good resource for getting company financials in a clean looking excel format? Say if I want to look at the financials of Alcoa for the last four quarters and run my own analysis on them... Right now I'm going into EDGAR and manually downloading and formatting, but that is way too time-consuming. In a similar vein, what is the best service for getting financial ratios? I've used yahoo and reuters before, but I've hear that they can be inaccurate. If there is a broker that offers these, I would consider opening an account.
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Jun 23, 2012 17:42
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TheChimney posted:Is there a good resource for getting company financials in a clean looking excel format? Say if I want to look at the financials of Alcoa for the last four quarters and run my own analysis on them... Right now I'm going into EDGAR and manually downloading and formatting, but that is way too time-consuming. Well, the best I've been able to do is go to EDGAR and open up the 10K/Q as interactive data and export that to excel. It's still a pain to do, but at least its faster than my old copy and paste method. New question, does anyone feel like sharing their favorite stock market/finance blogs. I do mostly fundamental analysis, but I am willing to read just about anything ... as long as it's well written.
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Jul 1, 2012 04:53
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Turkeybone posted:Yesssssss, suck it, OPEN. What kind of position did you have on OPEN?
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Jul 3, 2012 01:53
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Kneel Before Zog posted:I'm also curious in how much importance I should be putting In looking at a stocks resistance/support levels. Is this solely a technical analysis train of thought or is it used by many investors? That's something you are going to have to decide for yourself. A lot of trader's use technicals, and many claim that they use them profitably. However, In my experience I haven't seen much proof that it works. My advice (which is next to worthless since I'm just some dude on the internet) is to do some reading on technical indicators and try to understand their applications and the reasoning behind them. Then, you can decide for yourself whether or not support and resistance is worth looking into.
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Jul 5, 2012 23:48
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Do you guys have investment philosophies? Personally, I see myself as a student of Warren Buffet, and I focus only on the fundamentals. I try to act as if the stock market wasn't even there (I have to admit that this is much easier said than done).
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Their stock screener is okay. Does anyone know of a better one that is free?
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