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3 Stocks Trading Near Asset Value

If earnings represent a company’s take-home pay, book value is its net worth. Both measures can be turned into price ratios (price/earnings, price/book) and used to judge whether a stock ticker is cheap or expensive. Which is better? A 2000 study published in the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting compared them using data from [...]

3 Stocks With Fast ‘Organic’ Sales Growth

Good news, sort of: Third-quarter financial reports, now trickling in, are expected to show that earnings per share for U.S. companies fell 6% from a year earlier. That will mark a sharp improvement from the second quarter’s 18% decline, the first quarter’s 39% plunge and the fourth quarter of 2008, when U.S. companies as a [...]

Trusts Offer 16% Yields, With a Catch

Savings rates are paltry. Money-market funds pay 1% and bank accounts even less. Commit to a five-year certificate of deposit and you might get 3%. stock ticker dividends are laughable, especially considering the extra risk attached to them. More than a quarter of America’s 500 largest companies pay nothing. The rest offer a median yield [...]

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