Stock-valuation
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The Dividend Connection: How Dividends Create Value in the Stock Market
Published in Hardcover by Dearborn Trade Pub (01 March, 1995)
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Growing Rich With Growth Stocks
Published in Paperback by Prentice Hall Art (31 May, 2000)
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Chill winds frequently blow through the financial press. If it's not the Y2K thing, it's the simple fact that stocks have been growing so fast for so long that there just has to be a disaster on the horizon. But you'll find no gloom and doom in Getting Rich with Growth Stocks. Kirk Kazanjian retained five top investors to share their secrets and their outlook on the future, and the result is a book that's refreshing to read and easy to absorb. It doesn't mean that there isn't a hurricane brewing somewhere offshore; it just means that after the hurricane has passed through, the warm breezes will return.
The five investors--Donald Yacktman, Robert Stovall, Shelby Davis, Roy Papp, and Elizabeth Bramwell--share a remarkably consistent view of the future: If an investor consistently picks stocks that meet certain criteria (global sales, a high probability of continued growth, low price/earnings ratio relative to the rest of the market), he or she will get very rich.
Likewise, they share a disdain for international stocks (it's cheaper to buy American stocks that do business overseas), trend-of-the-moment plays (what goes up like a skyrocket can and usually does fall like a rock), and market timing (be in the market all the time, they counsel).
Kazanjian organizes their investment advice into a dozen principles, and intersperses profiles of each investor with their respective picks for the "10 growth stocks for the 21st century." Those generally include the usual suspects--Microsoft, GE, Intel, Merck--and are hardly the point of the book. By the time you're done reading this, you should be ready to pick your own high-ceiling stocks, sit back, and imagine those ocean breezes. --Lou Schuler
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Not worth beansThis book is not worth beans. Another group of hucksters trying to make a fast buck.
Complete waste of timeUnfortunately the recent bull market has generated an entire group of would-be financial experts. They write useless books on the subject they have hard time grasping. This book is a good example of a book that can actually hurt you as an investor. Mr. Kazanjian obviously has little or no idea about such things as asset allocation and modern portfolio theory. His bright idea is: "Hey, High Tech is hot, put your money into it!". I wonder what exactly Mr. Kazanjian would tell his readers know, when Nasdaq is down, bull market is over and his readers actually lost money. Complete and utter waste of time.
Growing Rich With Growth StocksDon't buy the book for an entertaining read, unless you just enjoy reading about the personal home life and/or chidhood of famous investors. I found that part irrelevent and very boring.
The book is well worth its price, however, for the top ten growth stock picks by each of the five featured investors. That's really the only information of value in the book, but they probably couldn't sell very many copies of a 5-page book, so you're stuck with the filler.
Frontier Emerging Equity Markets Securities Price Behavior and Valuation
Published in Hardcover by Kluwer Academic Publishers (01 August, 1999)
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Foremost AuthorityDr. Kratz is certainly the foremost authority on this subject. His command of the intricacies of developing markets in Eastern Europe is exceptional. His understanding led the Deutsche European Equity Fund to its 5 star number 1 rank among stock funds in its category. One would be well-advised to listen to his insights into these exciting and critical markets.
Good bookI read Dr Kratz's expose of frontier emerging markets. A very good book. He masters this asset class and the details which make a good and savvy investor in frontier markets. It is by far one of the most interesting fields of international investing, and I am sure this book is just the beginning of many more to follow on the field - it's a primer. I recommend the book to students and practitioners of finance and investments. Dr Kratz strikes a healthy balance between academic thinking and practial experience and application.
Finally someone who understands frontier marketsDr. Kratz's new book on frontier markets is essential to the understanding of this new genre within the equity asset class. It offers a unique journey through the creation of a young emerging equity market and supports conclusions with strong empirical analysis. It supports the notion that valuation in "frontier markets" is more an art than a science, but in order to truly understand such markets one has to be open-minded and a keen observer of what Kratz calls the philology of the frontier market valuation debate. This is new, and sure to fuel the debate on the subject of asset pricing in an environment with little objective and hard data to come by.
Franchise Value and the Price/Earnings Ratio (The Research Foundation of Aimr and Blackwell Series in Finance)
Published in Paperback by Research Foundation of the Institute of Chart (01 June, 1994)
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Franchise Value : A Modern Approach to Security Analysis (Wiley Finance)
Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons (23 July, 2004)
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Financial Valuation of Employee Stock Ownership Plan Shares
Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons Inc (11 February, 2005)
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Financial Strategy: Studies in the Creation, Transfer, and Destruction of Shareholder Value
Published in Hardcover by McGraw Hill (Tx) (01 April, 1979)
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Financial Dynamics: A System for Valuing Technology Companies
Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons (11 April, 2003)
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Interesting subject, difficult bookI read this book halfway through. The subject is very interesting and makes totally sense. But since English is not my first language, the reading is quite tough.
The book provides a lot of background information regarding accounting, which our accounting professor didn't bother to talk about. For example how the guilds were organized in the dark ages in Europe (and still are organised in Germany of today).
You should have some background in process automation and cybernetics or accounting.
The book provides a lot of background information regarding accounting, which our accounting professor didn't bother to talk about. For example how the guilds were organized in the dark ages in Europe (and still are organised in Germany of today).
You should have some background in process automation and cybernetics or accounting.
Interesting and well written bookDr. Westland provides a well argued case for replacing existing corporate valuation methods with the Financial Dynamics system described in his book.
WonderfulA marvelous review of the problems of current financial valuation methods, and Westland's solution to their shortcomings.
Equity Valuation and Analysis With Eval
Published in Hardcover by McGraw-Hill Companies (01 July, 2003)
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Equity Research and Valuation Techniques: Proceedings of the Aimr Seminar "Equity Research and Valuation Techniques" December 9, 1997, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Icfa Continuing Education)
Published in Paperback by Association for Investment Management & Resea (01 December, 1998)
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