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The Stock Selection Guide has been used by millions of investors over the past 70 years, and has proven to be a consistent and valuable tool in building successful stock portfolios. This short tutorial does not attempt to provide an in-depth review of the Stock Selection Guide, but an introduction to a method of fundamental analysis that can be used by any individual investor interested in building a long-term portfolio of growth stocks For more information, contact BetterInvesting.


About the Author

Doug Gerlach has helped countless people get started on the road to financial freedom. A true Internet pioneer, he founded one of the earliest financial Websites, Investorama.com, in 1994, and co-founded NAIC's original website in 1995. In his role as President, Doug serves as ICLUBcentral's product manager and evangelist for tools such as myICLUB.com, MyStockProspector.com, and the award-winning Investor Advisory Service newsletter (for which he also serves as editor). Doug founded several of the tools in ICLUBcentral's toolbox, including StockCentral and the market-beating SmallCap Informer newsletter.

His books include BetterInvesting's Computerized Investing & The Internet. Investment Clubs for Dummies, The Armchair Millionaire, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Investing, and The Investor's Web Guide: Tools & Strategies for Building Your Portfolio. He also contributed to O'Reilly's Online Investing Hacks by Bonnie Biafore, published in 2004. Gerlach's books are written in easily understandable terms, and are intended to help both novice computer users and novice investors to develop a strategy for using the power of the Internet to build a portfolio.

His articles have been published in Individual Investor, Better Investing, BITS, PC World, ComputerLife, Mutual Funds, and many other publications.

He frequently speaks at BetterInvesting events, both nationally and locally, as well as at investing conferences and with financial and computer media, maintains his commitment to making personal finance accessible to all.

Table of Contents

Introduction

SSG Overview

  • History
  • Purpose
  • About Judgement

Sources of Data

Top of SSG Form

  • General Info
  • Capitalization

Section 1 -- Visual Analysis of Sales, Earnings & Price

Section 2 -- Evaluating Management

  • Entering Data
  • 5-Year Averages
  • Judging Trends
  • Interpreting Results

Section 3 -- Price-Earnings History as an indicator of future

  • Entering Data
  • P/E Ratio
  • % Payout & % High Yield
  • Interpreting Results

Section 4 -- Evaluating Risk & Reward over next 5 years

  • Choosing High Price
  • Choosing Low Price
  • Zoning
  • Upside/Downside Ratio
  • Interpreting Results

Section 5 -- 5-Year Potential

  • Present Yield
  • Average Yield
  • Interpreting Results

Conclusion

Complete Table of Contents



 
  
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