Standard & Poor's 500 Guide 2009 PB - Softcover

Standard & Poor's

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071615156 ISBN 13: 9780071615150

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2009

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The information you need to steer your investment decisions--from the world's most respected financial index

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index is the most watched index in America--if not the world. Whether you're an individual investor looking to make a smart stock purchase, an executive researching corporate competitors, or a job seeker looking for concise and up-to-the-minute overviews of potential employers, you'll find the critical, often hard-to-find information you need in Standard & Poor's 500 Guide, 2009 Edition. Easy to use and packed with market intelligence on all 500 of the companies listed in the S&P 500 Index, this authoritative reference includes:

Information on the bluest of blue chip stocks, from Abbott Labs and GE to Microsoft and Yahoo!
Summaries of each company's business activity, sales history, and recent developments
Earnings and dividends data, with three-year price charts
Exclusive Standard & Poor's Quality Rankings (from A+ to D)
New introduction by David M. Blitzer, Ph.D., Managing Director & Chairman of the Index Committee, Standard & Poor’s

In addition, unique at-a-glance charts detail:

Stocks with A+ Quality Rankings
Companies with five consecutive years of earnings increases--a key indicator of strong long-term performance!
Companies with 10 consecutive years of increasing dividends

Put the comprehensive, updated data and analysis expertise of the world's premier securities information firm at your fingertips, with Standard & Poor's 500 Guide, 2009 Edition.

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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.

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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.

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