Equity Instruments: Newsletter – November 10,
2012
Where we
are in classÉ
Where you
should be in the projectÉ
Data NotesÉ
You can screen for stocks with specific characteristics – say price earnings ratios less than 15 and growth rates greater than 20% by going to
If you want to find comparable firms on Bloomberg, use the RV function. You can tailor the output to put only the information you want on the print out. This may help if you have a foreign company and cannot find comparable firms on my compfirm.xls spreadsheet. On Capital IQ, you can use stock screener to great effect to pick and choose companies.
Miscellaneous FAQs
I
did badly on the last quiz. Can I throw it out?
No quiz, once done, can be thrown out. However, your worst quiz will be weighted less than the 10% that was allotted to it. How much less? It will depend upon how far the quiz score is from your average on the other exams (quizzes and final). The extreme example is if you get zero on one quiz and get 100% on all of the remaining exams. Then, the weight on the quiz is zero.
Is the mystery project here and when is it
due?
Yes, the mystery project will be online by November 12 and it is due a week from that date on November 19.
What statistics package works best for
regressions?
You can run multiple regressions from within excel or you can use a statistics package. I am partial to SPSS, which is available at a student rate in the computer store.