Final-Term Flashcards
Value Investors
If you pick a stock based on the value of the underlying company that issues it
Growth investors
Seek companies that offer strong earnings-growth
The total market valuation of a company’s stock
Referred to its market cap/ market capitalization
Market cap
Share price (market value) X Total # of shares outstanding
Market valuation
Its not always a good indicator of a good investment.
Book Value (accounting Value)
Looks at a company from a balance sheet perspective
- assets - liabilities = net worth/ stockholders equity
Intrinsic value
The market price of a company’s assets minus sum of a company’s liabilities
- Directly tied to its ability to make money
The market-to-book
Price-to-book (PBR)
Measure of how highly valued the firm is.
- Stock price / BPS
Book value per share (BPS)
Divide the company’s book value by number of shares it has outstanding
Overvalued
The closer the stock’s market capitalization is to the book value, the safer the investment.
2 common barometers of value are expressed in ratios
- Price to sales ratio (PSR)
- Price to earnings ratio (PER)
Net worth/ net equity
Assets - Liabilities
Comparative analysis
Compare a company’s balance sheet at a recent point in time to the past
Income statement
Find out about what a company’s profit is
Net Profit (net earnings, Net income)
Sales - expenses
Sales
The money that a company receives as customers buy its good and/or services
Top line analysis
Analyzing a business by looking at its sales
Accounts receivable
Refers to money that is owned to the company for goods that customers have purchased on credit.
Financial Ratio
A helpful numerical tool that you can use to find out the relationshop between 2 or more figures found in company’s financial data