Standard & Poor's 500 Guide: 1999 (STANDARD AND POOR'S 500 GUIDE) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070527644 ISBN 13: 9780070527645

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1864

Synopsis

Provides information on activity, recent developments, sales history, earnings, dividends, share prices, and rankings for five hundred top corporations

About this title

From the Back Cover:

From the source trusted by more than 1,000,000 investors! Essential information on the companies of the world's most famous financial index! With an average market capitalization exceeding $10 billion, the companies listed in the Standard & Poor's 500 index are the most-watched in America. The S&P 500--including Microsoft, IBM, Ford, McDonald's, AT&T, Boeing, Exxon, and General Electric--are the bluest of blue-chip stocks, stocks that grow and generate increasing dividends year after year. Whether you're an investor seeking to make a smart stock purchase, an executive researching corporate competitors, or a job-seeker looking to succinct overviews of potential employers, you'll find critical, often hard-to-find information in Standard & Poor's 500 Guide. Easy-to-use and packed with market intelligence on all 500 of the companies listed in the S&P 500 index, this handy reference includes: buy, sell, or hold recommendations for every stock; a summary of each company's business activity, recent developments, and sales history; company addresses, telephone numbers, and names of key corporate officers; earnings, dividends, and 3-year price charts; key income and balance sheet statistics; exclusive Standard & Poor's rankings (from A+ to D). In addition, unique at-a-glance charts highlight: stocks with A+ earnings and dividend rankings; companies with five consecutive years of earnings increases; rapid growth stocks; companies with fast-rising dividends; companies with higher dividends in each of the past 10 years. With the authoritative analyses and comprehensive data included in this convenient guide, you'll have the expertise of the nation's premier securities information firm right at your fingertips.

About the Author:

Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is the nation's leading securities information company. It provides a broad range of financial services, including the respected Standard & Poor's ratings and stock rankings, advisory services, data guides, and the most closely watched and widely reported gauges of stock market activity--the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, S&P SmallCap 600, and S&P Super Composite 1500 stock price indices. Standard & Poor's products are marketed around the world and used extensively by both financial professionals and individual investors.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1864
• ISBN 10: 0070527644
• ISBN 13: 9780070527645
• Binding: Paperback