Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis
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Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis is designed to help you put those tools to work in identifying risk levels, making valid and reliable comparisons, and ultimately in picking stocks for your portfolio. It is this activity—deciding which stocks to buy, how long to hold them, and when to sell—that lies at the center of every investment program. Even if you pick the stock of well-managed, financially sound companies, if your timing is off, your profits will not be at the pace you would hope and expect. Fundamental analysis helps you to quantify value and financial strength; of equal importance, it helps you to time your decisions to maximize the potential for profits in your stock selection.
With this in mind, you need the numbers as a starting point, the information you find in corporate audited financial statements and their footnotes, which includes quarterly filing papers and annual statements. Beyond these sources, you need to know how to read financial news and apply new information to a stock’s value; how to anticipate economic changes in the broad market; and how those changes are likely to affect stocks; and how to identify a company’s position within its industry and sector.
This book, part of the Getting Started In series, provides basic information on the complex topic of fundamental analysis in a way intended to help anyone go through the concepts and definitions without trouble. The combined visual and learning tools—the many practical examples, definitions in context, key points, checklists, and graphics—take vague concepts and put them into real-world action in a way that relates to the same decisions you face as an investor every day.
Contents:
- Financial Statements and What They Reveal
- Basic Stock Market Theories
- The Audited Statement—Flawed but Useful
- Finding Financial Information Online: Step-by-Step Explanations
- How Accurate Are the Numbers?
- Confirmation:The Trend of the Trends
- Balance Sheet Ratios:Making the Analysis
- Income Statement Ratios:Tracking the Profits
- The Popular P/E Ratio and How to Use It
- Using Fundamental—and Technical—Analysis Together
- Indicators That Go beyond the Statements
Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis By Michael C. Thomsett pdf
15 reviews for Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis
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Araceli English (verified owner) –
Good book.
Rosalia Pham (verified owner) –
There is good enough to understand about fundamental analysis contains important knowledge about market. Buy it if you want to enter into market
Emanuel Harrell (verified owner) –
Quality of the contents is good
Keily Santiago (verified owner) –
Good explanation of basic concepts of fundamental analysis, very good book for the beginners. Explains few technical terms as well.
Kara Avalos (verified owner) –
Excellent book
Russell Rollins (verified owner) –
Very good book. Clearly explain every concept with providing practical example. Easy to understand and grasp the content.
Paola Dennis (verified owner) –
all ,you need to know before investing
Coen Crosby (verified owner) –
I decided to learn about the stock market because I invest a portion of my paycheck in my company’s stock. I’ve saved a couple grand through the program and want to decide whether to hold or sell.
For a total investing newbie, this book gave a great overview of fundamental analysis, technical analysis and the strengths and weaknesses of each. I came away with the tools I needed to begin comparing and analyzing potential stocks. In addition, it made me want to learn a bit more about technical analysis.
I used to think that analyzing prospective stocks was too difficult for me, now, I have the confidence I need to get started.
Maeve Cruz (verified owner) –
This book is what it says. A guide to getting st…….
Goes thru account keeping practises used, price ratios, and all those other things fundamental analysts use to convince themselves of where a stocks price should be, based on their expectations and calculations.
This book covers the important and useful aspects of fund analy, however the author writes from the viewpoint of an “investor” not a “trader” and the section at the end of the last chapter really made me laugh with “buy low, sell high” and a few other things investors are always bagging traders about.
Overall I found the book very easy going, with review bubbles on each aspect as it was covered to reinforce it and I recommend it to anyone who wants to know about balance sheets,crooked accounting practices, profit, loss and sales tracking, price ratios and all the other guff up rampers are always crankin on about when they’re wishing their BHP (buy , hold, pray) method to possible fruition.
Great book, great for future reference, glad I bought it.
Ryan Macdonald (verified owner) –
It’s a dry read, but it’s exactly what it says it js. Took me about two weeks of bedtimes and train rides. As a lower level intermediate level “Trader” I’ve always looked for a better understanding of how to dig into the earnings reports because strictly following the charts always felt like more of gamble than it should be. This book has helped me organize and research my trades more like an investigator looking for a good deal rather than trying to read a table as if I were in Vegas. Fundamentals and technicals are not mutually exclusive, the more tools you have the better. If you’re genuinely interested in this stuff give it a go. I’m better for it.
Beckham Burns (verified owner) –
I am still learning how to read balance sheets and income statements. This book has advanced my understanding of the subject.
Emerson Hutchinson (verified owner) –
For a book called “Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis”, this book contains remarkably little material relating to the subject. It does do a good job discussing the potential pitfalls involved in reading a financial statement. However, it has very little practical advice on actually performing analysis. Overall, the book is poorly organized and poorly edited.
I got “Fire Your Stock Analyst!” by Harry Domash at the same time as this book, and found it much more informative.
Nikolas Holt (verified owner) –
I have studied enormously large textbooks that do not do as good a job as Thomsett at explaining fundamental analysis in a simple and easy to understand manner. Thomsett shows how and why one should conduct fundamental analysis, how to interpret results, how to detect warning signs that the health of a company isn’t what it should be, and much more. For the individual investor (even DRIP investors, NOT traders), this is a great book and well worth the money.
Juliette Melendez (verified owner) –
I had to buy this book for a class I was taking. I found it really interesting, and something I would recommend to anyone interested in investing and stocks. It gives a lot of information but it does it in a way that is not dry and boring. It is a very well written book.
Adelynn Decker (verified owner) –
Great book.