Course: stock valuation

Security Analysts and Their Recommendations

Stock prices, especially those with high price-earnings ratios, are usually based on future expectations, which often originate from the recommendations of security analysts

by William C. Spaulding

Dividend Discount Model

Prices a stock by the sum of its future cash flows discounted by the required rate of return that an investor demands for the risk of owning the stock.

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Present Value of Growth Opportunities

Stock prices depends on the companys return on equity, which depends on net earnings. But some companies pay most of their earnings as dividends

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Price Per Earnings Ratio

Common stock ratios are based on financial data from income statements, balance sheets, or the cash flow statements of financial reports of the company

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Equity Valuation - Book Value, Liquidation Value, and the Q Ratio

One measure to determine whether a stock is a good investment is whether the company is worth at least the value of all the outstanding stock at current market prices...

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Enterprise Value

is how much a company would cost, if it were bought outright

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Earnings Yield

Is the inverse of the price-earnings ratio (P/E) of stocks, and equals earnings per share of common stock divided by the market price of the stock.

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Discounted Cash Flow Formula

One method of estimating the value of an asset or a business is by calculating the discounted cash flow that the asset will earn.

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Goodwill

a catchall phrase that refers to the value of the business over and above the value of its assets.

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Economic Value Added

Economic value added (EVA) is the spread between a firms return on invested capital (ROIC) and the cost of capital multiplied by the total amount of capital invested.

by William C. Spaulding