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Growth, Value -- What's the Difference? What, exactly, is a growth stock? Fully 162 of the S&P 500's component stocks -- or 32% of the group -- are classified as both growth and value. This data may be interesting, but it tells us little about the attractiveness of specific stocks. |
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What Does a Low P/E Ratio Mean? Investors, remember that the P/E isn't everything. Other metrics are also worth considering. |
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P/E Ratio Dynamics There's some logic for investors behind seemingly wacky P/E ratios. |
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Meet the P/E Ratio You're about to get to know the most maligned metric in investing, the P/E. Why all the hate? Investors, read on. |
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When You Miss a Speeding Stock Oh dear! You were thinking of buying shares of a stock that has now skyrocketed. What are you going to do? |
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Get 2-for-1 Stock-Price Growth This one-two punch can lead to serious gains. Stocks that offer both earnings growth and P/E growth can help you rack up knockout returns over the long haul. |
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How the Wrong Stocks Can Get You in Trouble Price-to-earnings ratios only tell you part of the story. |
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More Dangerous Growth Investors need to be aware of the hazards of wishful thinking and relying too heavily on Wall Street guesswork when valuing investments. |
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If Fish Can Count, You Can Invest A few simple explanations to get you started on your way to wealth. |
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Meet the Earnings Yield Turn P/E ratios upside down and get great insights into companies. The earnings yield is just one of many investor tools. It shouldn't dictate any decision for you, but it can help you think more effectively about your expectations for investments. |
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Understanding "Multiples" Understanding multiples can help you evaluate a stock's attractiveness. |
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Drilling for Value The price-to-sales ratio suggests that Transocean and Diamond Offshore aren't bargains. the drilling business is highly volatile. If earnings fail to materialize, investors will likely feel a lot of pain. |
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Dividend and Conquer The historical data make a fairly convincing case that the current market is not too friendly to investors counting on growth and P/E expansion. But there are two things investors can focus on to position themselves well. |
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5 Numbers You Can't Afford to Miss Today's topic is basic financial metrics and concepts. These concepts will help any investor examine companies with a more critical eye. |
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Understanding "Multiples" Multiples can help you evaluate stock prices. Here's what they mean. |
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Making Money With Multiples These stats can help you compare companies to find great investments. |
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These 5 Stocks Aren't As Cheap as They Look Don't be misled by the attractive valuations of these stocks: Cardinal Health... Discover... Sunoco... U.S. Steel... Tenet Healthcare... |
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Plugging the P/E While the P/E ratio gets a bad rap, it doesn't mean investors should steer clear of using it. Watch what it can do. |
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Why the P/E Ratio Is Dangerous Using P/E as a standalone valuation tool could cost you big-time. Isolating on any single metric, for that matter, is a recipe for disaster. |
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Executive Optimism: Insiders Think These Stocks Have More Upside to Be Priced In Insiders and Wall Street analysts think these stocks still have some good news to be priced in over the next couple of weeks -- do you agree?: The McClatchy Company... Scientific Games Corporation... Prospect Capital Corporation... |
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Is Microsoft Stock Cheap Right Now? Let's take a look. |
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Income Ideas: 20 Most Undervalued S&P 500 Companies In the great search for value investments we offer a list of S&P 500 companies that appear to be undervalued. |
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Watch Out for the P/E Ratio While the P/E ratio is a very useful resource, its often-ignored limitations can sometimes catch smart investors off guard. Use it carefully and prudently. |
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Beware of "Bargain" Stocks Before you go picking cheap stocks willy-nilly, make sure you're not cutting corners on your research -- or you could get a nasty shock in the future. |
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How Much of a Bargain Is Apple Stock Right Now? What can price multiples, consistency of past earnings, and amount of growth expected tell us about Apple's true value? |
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Robert Shiller Says Stocks Are Overvalued Again Ignore the GAAP gap and P/E10 at your own peril according to the Yale economist. |
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Screening for the Best Stocks Why not let the computer pick your next investments for you? |
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Tech IPO Boom: Looking for Attractively Valued Software Stocks? But don't overpay for the hype! |
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The Best Buying Opportunity in 12 Years? The mere decline of stock prices, even if severe, does not in and of itself make for a buying opportunity. However, with the S&P 500 P/E at its lowest level since 1995, is it time to load up? |
The Motley Fool
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How Expensive Is Google Stock Right Now? Let's use some carefully chosen metrics to size up Google's true value. |
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Finding Value in All the Tech Places Lately, some of the biggest names in tech look a lot like value stocks: Apple... Cisco... Google... HP... IBM... Intel... Microsoft... |
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Best Buy's Stock Looks Cheap by the Numbers Let's take a look. |
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Stock Picking for Novices If you're a newcomer to investing, how should you begin to choose stocks in which to possibly invest? |
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How Cheap Is ExxonMobil Stock Right Now? Let's take a look. |
The Motley Fool
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Investing 101: 10 Rallying Yet Deeply Undervalued Companies Do you think the value of these companies will continue to rise? |
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Finding Safe Low P/E Stocks NYU professor Aswath Damodaran has surveyed prior research and found that low P/E stocks outperform high P/E stocks by anywhere from 9% to 12% per year on average |
