Streetsmart Guide to Valuing a Stock

Overview

Main description

Traders and investors spend fortunes in time and money trying to gauge the real value of individual stocks. The Streetsmart Guide to Valuing a Stock introduces proven techniques for analyzing a stock's value, spotting undervalued and overvalued stocks, and understanding the impact of interest rate changes and earnings reports on stock prices. New topics include:

• Finance theory in the stock valuation process
• Short-term stock price versus long-term value
• Use of valuation models to uncover misstatements and outright fraud

Author comments

Gary Gray, Patrick Cusatis, and J. Randall Woolridge are professors of finance at Penn State University. Their articles have appeared in numerous academic journals.