Standard and Poor's 500 Guide

by Standard & Poor's

Book Overview

Packed with essential market intelligence and reports on America's most-watched companies, this guide delivers exclusive S & P ranking (from A to D+) that gauges the growth and stability of each... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070525021
• ISBN13: 9780070525023
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 1020 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

tons of info in VERY useful format

I love owning this book and I generally buy the new edition every year. My investment company offers the S & P reports on their website, but I like to own the book so I can easily browse it, mark it up, flag specific stocks with Post-It-Notes, and so on. I focus quite a big on Standard & Poor's proprietary "investability quotient percentile" [IQ]for my buy-and-hold stock decisions. (I also take a careful look at the ten-year dividend history.) You will also find five-star buy vs sell ratings, target price and when set, earnings/dividend rating, fair value, volatility, relative strength, key stock statistics, dividend data, and LOTS of other information. There is quite a bit of interesting and well-written prose about each company, too---it's not all charts and numbers.

dunk shot

its S & P -- 'nuff said. The CFA level analysis of the 500 most watched companies in the US is astute and pithy. If you're looking for a comprehensive review of those stock's pros and cons, pick up this book.

excellent reference

An excellent reference for any investor, lists all of the s & p 500 with all necessary data for research. Truly a must have for the investor who wants to make money.