Standard and Poor's 500 Guide 2000 - Softcover

Standard & Poor's

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071352562 ISBN 13: 9780071352567

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2000

Synopsis

From the source trusted by more than one million investors. What do individual investors, money managers, analysts, brokers, and financial writers and editors have in common? All turn to Standard & Poor's, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, for securities information that is second to none. S&P's Guides, totally updated for the year 2000, deliver the same data and analyses used by today's top investment professionals. Each book puts these unique features at the reader's fingertips: vital data on earnings, dividends, and share prices; key income and balance sheet statistics; exclusive S&P buy, sell, or hold recommendations for each stock; exclusive S&P outlook for every stock's price; computer-generated screens showing superior stock picks in different categories; company addresses, numbers, and names of top officers.

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 $20 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 for succinct overviews of potential employers, you'll find critical, often hard-to-find information in Standard & Poor's 500 Guide, 2000 Edition. Easy-to-use and packed with market intelligence on all 500 of the companies listed in the Standard & Poor's 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 a 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 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 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. Divisions of Standard & Poor’s operate independently of each other. Standard & Poor’s®, S&P®, S&P 500® are registered trademarks of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0071352562
• ISBN 13: 9780071352567
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1020