Standard & Poor's 500 Guide

by Standard & Poor's

Book Overview

This work reports on the 500 companies making up the new Standard & Poor 500 and gauges the growth and stability of each stock's earnings. Entries for each company are packed with information such as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071457496
• ISBN13: 9780071457491
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 1000 Pages
• Weight: 4.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.5" x 11.1"

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.