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Description of Expectations Investing

'"Expectations Investing" is well worth picking up' - "Financial Executive". "Expectations Investing" offers a fundamentally new alternative for identifying value-price gaps, built around a deceptively simple and obvious tool: a company's stock price.

The authors walk readers step-by-step through their breakthrough method, revealing how portfolio managers, security analysts, investment advisors, and individual investors can more accurately evaluate established and "new economy" stocks alike - and translate shareholder value from theory to reality.

Title Information

ISBN:

9781591391272

Pages:

256 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

16413

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill

Published:

01/02/2003

Edition:

New edition

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About Alfred Rappaport and Michael J Mauboussin

Alfred Rappaport directs Shareholder Value Research for L.E.K. Consulting and is a Professor Emeritus at Northwestern's Kellogg School.

Michael Mauboussin is Credit Suisse First Boston's Chief U.S. Investment Strategist. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University and runs the New Economic Forum at the Santa Fe Institute.

Contents of Expectations Investing

1. The Case for Expectations Investing
Active Management: Challenge and Opportunity
The Expectations Investing Process
The Twilight of Traditional Analysis
Essential Ideas
Appendix: Earnings Growth and Value Creation


PART 1: Gathering the Tools

2. How the Market Values Stocks
The Right Expectations
Shareholder Value Road Map
Free Cash Flow
Cost of Capital
Forecast Period
From Corporate Value to Shareholder Value
Summary Illustration
Essential Ideas
Appendix: Estimating Residual Value
The Perpetuity Method
The Perpetuity-with-Inflation Method

3. The Expectations Infrastructure
The Expectations Infrastructure
Not All Expectations Revisions Are Equal
Essential Ideas

4. Analyzing Competitive Strategy
The Dual Uses of Competitive Strategy
Historical Analysis
Competitive Strategy Frameworks
Essential Ideas


PART 2: Implementing the Process

5. How to Estimate Price-Implied Expectations
Reading Expectations
Gateway Case Study
Why Revisit Expectations?
Essential Ideas
Appendix: Employee Stock Options and Expectations Investing
Valuing ESOs

6. Identifying Expectations Opportunities
Searching for Expectations Opportunities
Pitfalls to Avoid
Gateway Case Study
Essential Ideas

7. Buy, Sell, or Hold?
Expected-Value Analysis
Gateway Case Study
The Buy Decision
The Sell Decision
The Role of Taxes
Essential Ideas

8. Beyond Discounted Cash Flow
Real Options
When to Use Real-Options Analysis in Expectations Investing
The Value of Real options in Amazon.com
Reflexivity
Essential Ideas

9. Across the Economic Landscape
Business Categories
Business Categories and the Value Factors
Essential Ideas


PART 3: Reading Corporate Signals

10. Mergers and Acquisitions
How Acquiring Companies Add Value
Evaluating Synergies
What to Do When a Deal Is Announced
Essential Ideas

11. Share Buybacks
The Golden Rule of Share Buybacks
Four Popular Motivations for Share Buybacks
Essential Ideas

12. Incentive Compensation
CEO and Other Corporate-Level Executives
Operating-Unit Executives
Middle Managers and Frontline Employees
Essential Ideas

Notes
Index