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1 Chapter 1 : Stock market - Wikipedia Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. And one of the most famous value investors of recent times, Peter Lynch, was known to make good use of the PE ratio in his analysis. You can clearly see the correlation. Lower PE ratios equal better investment returns and this relationship holds through each twenty year period. Individually, there will always be opportunities in stocks that buck the trend. But unfortunately, historical PE data for individual stocks and industries is not easy to come by. Shaugnessy runs a number of studies back to where he tests various different ratios such as the PE ratio and the price-to-book ratio. How to look at PE ratios On the whole, the lower the PE ratio the better, since a low PE ratio means low expectations and those are easier to overcome. Meanwhile, with a trailing PE of The PE ratio for Delta Airlines is currently And you can calculate that figure yourself by simply dividing the stock price by the EPS. Is this a good deal? But both these companies sell their own, unique products. This is a highly competitive industry where company outperformance typically comes from smart fuel hedging and cost-cutting measures. The PE ratio is simply a good way of measuring and evaluating this growth so you can make investment decisions. For certain growth investors, a high PE ratio might be perfectly reasonable, and the importance of the PE ratio like all ratios will depend on many factors such as the industry, the product and market expectations. Indeed, a high PE ratio can indicate a company is growing fast whereas a low PE ratio can indicate a company that is simply doing poorly and in need of assistance. Looking at the PE ratio therefore bears no importance whatsoever. Thus, the PE ratio can only ever be a guide in certain situations and for certain companies. And when it is used it is best to use it in conjunction with other ratios and metrics. This is simply a function of how the two ratios are related. For value investors, the PE ratio remains one of the most useful indicators there is. This article is an extract from my latest value investing course, the Marwood Value Model, where I detail a market beating strategy that selects deep value stocks based on various financial ratios and metrics. Sign up to receive new trading strategies and updates. Unsubscribe at any time. Investing, Stocks Tagged With: Page 1

2 Chapter 2 : Stock Analysis: Historical Quotes & Ratings Morningstar Marketwatch summary - Overview of US stock market with current status of DJIA, Nasdaq, S&P, Dow, NYSE, gold futures and bonds. It gives signal to the investors about their future moves. The movement in the price of a stock and the indexes gives the idea of the near future trend of the stock, sector or the economy as a whole. As financial domain is the most important one of an economy, so the stock market performance works as an indicator of the overall health of the economy. Stock Market Indexes typically gives the overall performance of the market or of a specific sector. Indexes reflect the performance of the economy or a sector in entirety. Stock Prices are an indicator of the performance of the stock. If the price of a particular stock is rising then it is perceived that it has certain positive news or signals. But, if it decreases then there must be some news regarding its performance, which is generating negative signals to the market. Hence, the stock price movement and index movements show the general economic trend of a country. Stock Market Performance is affected by a wide array of factors such as economical, political, international, and company-specific issues. But when it zeros down to the specific stocks then the company specific information profitability, sales, profit margin, growth, etc. When the stock prices and the index movements show positive trend that is, upward movement then we call that the stock market performance are bullish. We call an investor to be bullish when his perceptions about the market and the economy are positive, i. Some of the factors which boosts up the market are good present or projected economic growth of the economy, positive monetary outlook of the apex bank, decrease in fiscal deficit, good performance of a company in terms of profit, sales, etc. But when the general perception of the investors is negative then the stock market also declines showing a bearish trend. When a person is not confident enough to buy stocks because of his negative expectations from the economy and sells off stocks then he is known as an investor with Bearish perceptions. If the performance of an economy is good then the Stock Market Performance is also good and bull markets are inevitable. Performance of an index or a stock might exceed that of the actual performance of the economy or a company because the expectations of the investors might cross the actual performance of the same. Thus Bull Run encounters correction of indexes or stocks from time-to-time, which is actually a healthy sign. If the economic performances are not up to the mark then the stock market is most likely to under perform and might see a downward trend. This downward movement of the market is known as Bearish Market. Hence, overall economic and stock specific performance influences performance of the market. Thus, Stock Market Performance acts as the barometer of the economy as a whole. Page 2

3 Chapter 3 : Today's stock market performance and economic data U.S. Sectors & Industries Performance is represented by the S&P GICSÂ (Global Industry Classification Standard) indices. Last % change is the nominal change in the price of the index from the previous trading day's close expressed as a percentage as of the index value at the time noted in the. The London Stock Exchange Trade in stock markets means the transfer in exchange for money of a stock or security from a seller to a buyer. This requires these two parties to agree on a price. Equities stocks or shares confer an ownership interest in a particular company. Participants in the stock market range from small individual stock investors to larger investors, who can be based anywhere in the world, and may include banks, insurance companies, pension funds and hedge funds. Their buy or sell orders may be executed on their behalf by a stock exchange trader. Some exchanges are physical locations where transactions are carried out on a trading floor, by a method known as open outcry. This method is used in some stock exchanges and commodity exchanges, and involves traders shouting bid and offer prices. The other type of stock exchange has a network of computers where trades are made electronically. A potential buyer bids a specific price for a stock, and a potential seller asks a specific price for the same stock. Buying or selling at the market means you will accept any ask price or bid price for the stock. When the bid and ask prices match, a sale takes place, on a first-come, first-served basis if there are multiple bidders at a given price. The purpose of a stock exchange is to facilitate the exchange of securities between buyers and sellers, thus providing a marketplace. The exchanges provide real-time trading information on the listed securities, facilitating price discovery. The New York Stock Exchange NYSE is a physical exchange, with a hybrid market for placing orders electronically from any location as well as on the trading floor. Orders executed on the trading floor enter by way of exchange members and flow down to a floor broker, who submits the order electronically to the floor trading post for the Designated Market Maker "DMM" for that stock to trade the order. If a spread exists, no trade immediately takes place â in this case the DMM may use their own resources money or stock to close the difference. Once a trade has been made, the details are reported on the " tape " and sent back to the brokerage firm, which then notifies the investor who placed the order. Computers play an important role, especially for program trading. The process is similar to the New York Stock Exchange. The Paris Bourse, now part of Euronext, is an order-driven, electronic stock exchange. It was automated in the late s. Prior to the s, it consisted of an open outcry exchange. Stockbrokers met on the trading floor of the Palais Brongniart. In, the CATS trading system was introduced, and the order matching process was fully automated. People trading stock will prefer to trade on the most popular exchange since this gives the largest number of potential counter parties buyers for a seller, sellers for a buyer and probably the best price. However, there have always been alternatives such as brokers trying to bring parties together to trade outside the exchange. Some third markets that were popular are Instinet, and later Island and Archipelago the latter two have since been acquired by Nasdaq and NYSE, respectively. One advantage is that this avoids the commissions of the exchange. However, it also has problems such as adverse selection. Some studies have suggested that institutional investors and corporations trading in their own shares generally receive higher risk-adjusted returns than retail investors. Over time, markets have become more "institutionalized"; buyers and sellers are largely institutions e. The rise of the institutional investor has brought with it some improvements in market operations. Automation has decreased portfolio management costs by lowering the cost associated with investing as a whole. Trends in market participation[ edit ] Stock market participation refers to the number of agents who buy and sell equity backed securities either directly or indirectly in a financial exchange. Participants are generally subdivided into three distinct sectors; households, institutions, and foreign traders. Direct participation occurs when any of the above entities buys or sells securities on its own behalf on an exchange. Indirect participation occurs when an institutional investor exchanges a stock on behalf of an individual or household. Indirect investment occurs in the form of pooled investment accounts, retirement accounts, and other managed financial accounts. Investments in pension funds and ks, the two most common vehicles of indirect participation, are taxed only when funds are withdrawn from the accounts. Conversely, the money Page 3

4 used to directly purchase stock is subject to taxation as are any dividends or capital gains they generate for the holder. In this way the current tax code incentivizes individuals to invest indirectly. In the bottom quintile of income, 5. As of the national rate of direct participation was Households headed by married couples participated at rates above the national averages with Knowledge of market functioning diffuses through communities and consequently lowers transaction costs associated with investing. History[ edit ] The term bourse is derived from the 13th-century inn named "Huis ter Beurze" center in Bruges. Early history[ edit ] In 12th-century France, the courretiers de change were concerned with managing and regulating the debts of agricultural communities on behalf of the banks. Because these men also traded with debts, they could be called the first brokers. A common misbelief[ citation needed ] is that, in late 13th-century Bruges, commodity traders gathered inside the house of a man called Van der Beurze, and in they became the "Brugse Beurse", institutionalizing what had been, until then, an informal meeting, but actually, the family Van der Beurze had a building in Antwerp where those gatherings occurred; [20] the Van der Beurze had Antwerp, as most of the merchants of that period, as their primary place for trading. The idea quickly spread around Flanders and neighboring countries and "Beurzen" soon opened in Ghent and Rotterdam. In the middle of the 13th century, Venetian bankers began to trade in government securities. In the Venetian government outlawed spreading rumors intended to lower the price of government funds. Bankers in Pisa, Verona, Genoa and Florence also began trading in government securities during the 14th century. This was only possible because these were independent city-states not ruled by a duke but a council of influential citizens. Italian companies were also the first to issue shares. Companies in England and the Low Countries followed in the 16th century. Birth of formal stock markets[ edit ] See also: The Dutch East India Company was the first corporation to be ever actually listed on an official stock exchange. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is said to have been the first stock exchange to introduce continuous trade in the early 17th century. And it has many other distinctive characteristics. Apart from the economic advantages and disadvantages of stock exchanges â the advantage that they provide a free flow of capital to finance industrial expansion, for instance, and the disadvantage that they provide an all too convenient way for the unlucky, the imprudent, and the gullible to lose their money â their development has created a whole pattern of social behavior, complete with customs, language, and predictable responses to given events. Present-day stock trading in the United States â a bewilderingly vast enterprise, involving millions of miles of private telegraph wires, computers that can read and copy the Manhattan Telephone Directory in three minutes, and over twenty million stockholder participants â would seem to be a far cry from a handful of seventeenth-century Dutchmen haggling in the rain. But the field marks are much the same. The first stock exchange was, inadvertently, a laboratory in which new human reactions were revealed. Other companies existed, but they were not as large and constituted a small portion of the stock market. Curott, in "The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics" [On the Origins of Stock Markets] [33] In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch pioneered several financial innovations that helped lay the foundations of the modern financial system. Soon thereafter, a lively trade in various derivatives, among which options and repos, emerged on the Amsterdam market. Crowd gathering on Wall Street New York City after the crash, one of the worst stock market crashes in history. Within the Communist countries, the spectrum of socialism ranged from the quasi-market, quasi- syndicalist system of Yugoslavia to the centralized totalitarianism of neighboring Albania. One time I asked Professor von Mises, the great expert on the economics of socialism, at what point on this spectrum of statism would he designate a country as "socialist" or not. For it means that there is a functioning market in the exchange of private titles to the means of production. There can be no genuine private ownership of capital without a stock market: The liquidity that an exchange affords the investors enables their holders to quickly and easily sell securities. This is an attractive feature of investing in stocks, compared to other less liquid investments such as property and other immoveable assets. Some companies actively increase liquidity by trading in their own shares. An economy where the stock market is on the rise is considered to be an up-and-coming economy. Share prices also affect the wealth of households and their consumption. Therefore, central banks tend to keep an eye on the control and behavior of the stock market and, in general, on the smooth operation of financial system functions. This eliminates the risk to an individual buyer or seller that the counterparty could default on the transaction. In this way the financial Page 4

5 system is assumed to contribute to increased prosperity, although some controversy exists as to whether the optimal financial system is bank-based or market-based. One feature of this development is disintermediation. A portion of the funds involved in saving and financing, flows directly to the financial markets instead of being routed via the traditional bank lending and deposit operations. The general public interest in investing in the stock market, either directly or through mutual funds, has been an important component of this process. The major part of this adjustment is that financial portfolios have gone directly to shares but a good deal now takes the form of various kinds of institutional investment for groups of individuals, e. The trend towards forms of saving with a higher risk has been accentuated by new rules for most funds and insurance, permitting a higher proportion of shares to bonds. Similar tendencies are to be found in other developed countries. In all developed economic systems, such as the European Union, the United States, Japan and other developed nations, the trend has been the same: A second transformation is the move to electronic trading to replace human trading of listed securities. Chapter 4 : Financial Markets: Stock and Bond Indexes and Performance Morningstar Get today's latest stock market news including sector performance, market movers, economic data, commodity prices and market commentary from Merrill Edge. Chapter 5 : Global Stock Market Performance YTD Seeking Alpha Historical stock market returns provide a great way for you to see how much volatility and what return rates you can expect over time when investing in the stock market. In the table at the bottom of this article, you'll find historical stock market returns for the period of through Chapter 6 : Stock Screener - Yahoo Finance The Stock Market & Sector Performance page gives you a quick glance at the overall state of the U.S. market segments. A 1-year chart of the S&P Index, showing percent comparisons against the 11 S&P Sectors is shown at the top of the page. Chapter 7 : DJIA - Dow Jones Industrial Average - CNNMoney A stock market map provides a unique and colorful way to view the performance of stocks, asset classes, sectors, or an entire country's stock market relative to its peers. You'll find any of these five market maps useful because these visual readings make it very easy to understand market performance; in the U.S. and abroad. Chapter 8 : Historical PE Ratios And Stock Market Performance Below is a look at the YTD performance of 76 country stock markets around the world. For each country, we generally use its most widely quoted stock market index, and returns are shown in. Chapter 9 : Carrefour Group > Finance > Carrefour Share > Stock market performance Stock Screener: Stock Research Center - Use the stock screener to search stocks by industry, index membership, share data such as price, market cap, beta, sales and profitability, valuation ratios. Page 5