Standard and Poor's 500 Guide, 2012 Edition - Softcover

Standard & Poor's

9780071775328: Standard and Poor's 500 Guide, 2012 Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071775323 ISBN 13: 9780071775328

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2011

The most accurate, up-to-date market intelligence for superior investment decisions—from the world’s premier 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 purchasing stocks, 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, 2012 Edition. Easy to use and packed with market intelligence on all 500 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 four-year price charts
Exclusive Standard & Poor’s Quality Rankings (from A+ to D)
New introduction by David M. Blitzer, Ph.D., Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee, Standard & Poor’s

In addition, you get unique at-a-glance details about:

Stocks with A+ Quality Rankings
Companies with five consecutive years of earnings increases—a key indicator of strong long-term performance
Per share data, income statement analyses, and balance sheet overviews of each company covered

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, 2012 Edition.

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Standard & Poor’s, a subsidiary 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 Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC.

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