The Stock Investor’s Pocket Calculator: A Quick Guide to All the Formulas and Ratios You Need to Invest Like a Pro
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The Stock Investor’s Pocket Calculator simplifies the math behind successful equity investing. Containing over 100 ratios and formulas, the book translates them into plain English, breaks them down into simple steps, and places them side-by-side with practical examples. Readers will learn how to judge portfolio value, assess corporate strength or weakness (both cash flow and profitability), follow revenue and earnings trends and more.
Introduction:
This book is designed for a spectrum of investors, from novices to seasoned professionals. Its purpose is to summarize in a single text the limited number of calculations everyone needs to be a better-informed investor. This involves three broad areas where calcula-tions need to be made. First is the basic investment calculation in-volving your portfolio, the computation of yield and return you need to make in order to judge your success. Because you hold invest-ments for varying amounts of time, it is essential to develop a method of uniformity, so that your calculations are truly comparable and consistent.
Second is the range of calculations used by corpora-tions in computing their profitability, cash flow, and use of capital. As an investor, you need to understand these calculations so that you will be able to track corporate reporting and outcome of opera-tions. Third is a broad range of stock analysis,which isthemeans for picking one company over another. This occurs in two separate ways, involving fundamental analysis and technical analysis. The fundamentals are the financial reports and the study of them, and technicalanalysisinvolvesastudyofastock’sprice trends.
This book is set up to break down the many calculations every investor needs into logical chapters and to then present information in context. Most people will agree that investment success is more likely to occur when your information is sound. Not only do you need solid information to know when or if to buy or sell; you also need to utilize intelligent formulas and tests in order to make in-formed judgments.
Contents:
- The Basic Dollars and Cents Problem: Overcoming the Numbers
- Rates of Return on Investment: What Goes In, What Comes Out
- Returns on Capital: Putting Cash to Work
- Leverage and Risk Analysis: Maximizing Other People’s Money
- Long-Term Trends: Patience Rewarded
- Core Earnings and Net Worth Adjustments: Making the Numbers Real
- Fundamentals: Balance Sheet Tests You Need to Know
- Fundamentals: Operating Statement Tests You Need to Know
- Technicals: Price and Volume Calculations
- Combined Testing: Merging Price and Financial Tests
- Taxation of Investments: Uncle Sam’s Share
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11 reviews for The Stock Investor’s Pocket Calculator: A Quick Guide to All the Formulas and Ratios You Need to Invest Like a Pro
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Alianna Waller (verified owner) –
I bought this book three years ago when I was new to investing. Informative and yet overwhelming. I used this book as my primary source for the ratios and formulas needed to trade stocks. However, I am now finishing my master’s degree in financial analysis and this book disappoints in hindsight. The ratios and formulas used are good, but the author’s descriptions and rationale for the formulas are too awkward and cumbersome for beginners. I disagree with the author’s choice to neglect time value of money topics, which are the cornerstone of most financial decisions.
I have found several mathematical mistakes, particularly with the options trading sections. If you are new to investing, this book will be a good source, but you may find that it may be too simplistic for advanced traders.
Marie Castro (verified owner) –
excellent
Leonel Ponce (verified owner) –
great book, with very useful tools and calculations.
Use it daliy to figure out all sorts of stock market figures. Very helpful and insiteful.
Aileen Costa (verified owner) –
The book does do what you would expect. I found it helpful but if you took an accounting class in high school there is nothing in here that you do not already know. There is nothing extra to the book.
Kenji Gillespie (verified owner) –
The title of the book, The Stock Investor’s Pocket Calculator, implies that if you read this book you will be able to use a calculator for investing. Nowhere in the book, not even in the index, is there ever any discussion of how to use a Pocket Calculator for investing. A better title might be formulas for investing. Texas Instruments does sell financial calculators, e.g. the BA II Plus Professional, and they do give you some instructions, but still not user friendly. I was hoping this book would solve the problem, but it doesn’t. I would return this book for a refund, but I’d already started to highlight some of the introductory passages before I found out the book doesn’t contain what it advertises.
Ariel Huynh (verified owner) –
Excellent – Merchandise arrived as described, excellent condition, prompt and well packaged, great quality, value and dependable service – I’m a happy camper: Thanks, and may the Force be with you!
Meilani Beil (verified owner) –
A very good book for those interested in going ‘a step beyond’ the average investor, particularly when it comes to calculating the TRUE returns. I highly recommend this book.
Wren Shelton (verified owner) –
This book is very helpful.
Malik Pittman (verified owner) –
Interesting book, simple.
Marley Sampson (verified owner) –
I found this book very useful. Some of the calculations are very basic and others are very complex. The formulas can be used for investing in stocks or they can be used for other accounting purposes, like compounding or taxes. The book explains how and why you would use the calculations and gives examples. It also gives examples of the formulas in reverse. I would recommend this to anyone who makes short term and long term investments of any type, and not just in stocks. I highly recommend this book to those who are thinking of making an investment…to make the correct calculations and wise choices…don’t be mislead…do your own calculations and research…
Jasper Terry (verified owner) –
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