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Magic Numbers for Stock Investors by Peter Temple
  • Magic Numbers for Stock Investors

  • How to Calculate the 25 Key Ratios for Investing Success

  • by Peter Temple
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    • Product code: 16461
    • ISBN: 0470821248, ISBN13: 9780470821244, 250 pages, hardback
      Published by John Wiley & Sons in 2003 , 1st edition
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    Description of Magic Numbers for Stock Investors

    A quick and accurate way to calculate key investment ratios Written by a leading finance expert, this book offers readers simple explanations on how to calculate and interpret key financial ratios-information that is essential for the accurate assessment of a company's financial condition and the true value of its shares. This comprehensive resource is packed with numerous examples from actual company reports and features a supporting Web site at www magicnumbersbook.com. Readers will also find many online reference sources, including company Web sites and free software offers. Peter Temple is a graduate in economics and statistics from the University of Wales, and is a Fellow of the UK Securities Institute. After an 18-year career as an investment analyst in fund management and investment banking, Temple turned to full-time writing in 1988 as a freelance financial journalist and author.

    Contents of Magic Numbers for Stock Investors

    Foreword
    Introduction

    Part 1: Valuation "Magic Numbers"

    1. Price to Sales Ratio
    2. Price to Book Value
    3. Enterprise Value to Sales
    4. EV/EBITDA
    5. Peg Factor
    6. Price to Research Ratio
    7. Reinvested Return on Equity


    Part 2: Income Statement "Magic Numbers"

    8. Sales, Earnings, and Equity Per Share
    9. Sales, Earnings, and Equity-per-share Ratios
    10. Staff Costs as a Percentage of Sales
    11. Directors? Remuneration as a Percentage of Net Income
    12. Sales and Profit Per Employee
    13. "Pro-Forma" Earnings
    14. Margins


    Part 3: Cash Flow Statement "Magic Numbers"

    15. Operating Cash Flow/Operating Profit
    16. Price to Free-cash-flow Ratio
    17. Free Cash Flow (FCF) to Sales
    18. Return on Invested Capital
    19. Discounted Cash Flow


    Part 4: Balance Sheet "Magic Numbers"

    20. Current Ratio and "Acid Test"
    21. Debtors Days and Creditor Days
    22. Stock Days and Stockturn
    23. Gearing
    24. Return on Capital Employed
    25a. Z-Score Components
    25b. The Z-Score

    Appendix: Finding the Information
    Index

    About Peter Temple

    Peter Temple has spent 33 years working in or writing about financial markets. After an 18-year career in fund management and stockbroking, he became a full-time writer in 1988. He has written more than a dozen books about finance and investing, mainly aimed at private investors. His articles appear widely in the financial press. He and his wife live in part of a converted water mill in the English Lake District.

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