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Benjamin Graham: Minimum Size of the company
In the book "Intelligent Investor", Graham recommends a minimum annual sales figure of 100 Million $ as one of the criteria.
How do we adjust this figure for Inflation and a country other than the ...
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Are there common stock price trends related to employee option plans?
Facebook IPO was May 18th, 2012. I understand that employees are not able to sell their shares until 6 months after the date of IPO (is this correct?). Can we expect the price of Facebook to decrease ...
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Valuation, pricing, and analysis of securities
I was wondering what differences are between valuation and pricing
of securities?
To me, they seem identical and for identical purposes.
If not, what is each of them trying to get from
what is ...
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Accounting for splits in a stock price graph
Many companies will have splits of their stock (either forward or reverse).
However, when looking at the before and after prices, a raw analysis of the graph would look like the stock lost half its ...
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What does “profits to the shareholders jumped to 15 cents a share” mean?
I'm reading the news about a company and they state that: "net profits attributable to the shareholders jumped to US $25.6 million, or 15 cents a share". What does it mean in terms of share price? ...
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How can I find out what factors are making a stock's price rise?
For example: Fannie Mae went up ~20% today, February 3, 2011. How come? What websites have you found to be useful in returning relevant information? It seems to me Yahoo Finance is not very good at ...
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Where can I obtain historic ratios for a sector?
I am trying to compare an individual company's historic annual ratios (leverage, liquidity, profitability, shareholder return, etc.) to its sector average. However, I can't find these numbers for a ...
