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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Fundamental Analysis For Beginners

Fundamental analysis and its place in determining the stock value and forecasting stock price:

many people out there invest money just through by speculation vision and not by reading the stocks historical prices,it is in human mind that the "history repeats itself" so is in the share market also.

Fundamental analysis is the basic analysis of stock market evaluating the probable profitability from stock and the return expected.It is based on historical results in the form of profit and loss statement and balance sheet.It is basically a accounting evaluation.


This analysis is based on the ratios: Ratio means the proportion of some qty or value against the other one, or it is the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) .

You have to compare these ratios with the other companies or with the same companies past performance.Like for example you have google as a company then either you can examine it along with the ratios of ts competitors like msn and yahoo or against its own past records.

Some of the ratios used primarily in judging the company position are :

Valuation Ratios

P/E Ratio

Price to Sales

Price to Book

Price to Tangible Book

Price to Cash Flow

Price to Free Cash Flow

Growth Rates
Sales Growth Rate

Sales - Growth Rate

EPS Growth Rate

EPS Growth Rate

Capital Spending Gr. Rate

Cap. Spend. Gr. Rate


Financial Strength
Quick Ratio
Infinity
Current Ratio

LT Debt to Equity

Total Debt to Equity

Interest Coverage

Managem't Effectiveness
Return On Assets

Ret/ On Assets

Return On Total Capital

Ret/ On T. Cap. -

Return On Equity

Return On Equity -

Asset Turnover

Profitability Ratios

Gross Margin

Gross Margin -

EBITDA Margin

EBITDA Margin -

Operating Margin

Oper. Margin -

Pre-Tax Margin

Pre-Tax Margin -
Net Profit Margin

Net Profit Margin -

Effective Tax Rate

Eff/ Tax Rate -

Payout Ratio

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