Four Ways to Beat the Market : A practical guide to stock-screening strategies to help you pick winning shares / Algy Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Algy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments.

Stocks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Place of Publication:

Petersfield, Hampshire, England : Harriman House Ltd, 2023.

Summary:

Investors in stocks are faced with two major problems:How to find and interpret the most useful data from company accounts. How to whittle down the list of thousands of public companies into a smaller pool of candidates for further research. In Four Ways to Beat the Market, experienced financial journalist Algy Hall provides the solution to both problems and helps investors in their quest to pick winning shares. The answer lies in stock screens. Over a decade, the four stock screens described here outperformed the market by 242% to 388%. These stock screens are ridiculously powerful - but staggeringly simple. Algy starts with four strategies for equity investing: Quality, Value, Income and Momentum. He shows how to construct four stock screens and use data from company accounts, including common accounting ratios, to filter stocks on the criteria that each of these strategies is looking for. And once the shortlist of screened stocks is produced, Algy explains how to use that shortlist as a basis for further analysis and research, before making an investment. Along the way, Algy also reveals the logical and empirical basis behind Quality, Value, Income and Momentum strategies, to help investors understand why they work and give them the confidence that they will continue to work in the future. Many other hints, tricks and tactics for investors are revealed, to help investors spot the best stocks and avoid the duds. With Algy Hall as your guide, discover the surprising ideas and stories that lie behind these strategies, while building the necessary know-how to improve your investment returns.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Part One: Why Screen Stocks?

Chapter 1: Meet The Strategies

Chapter 2: Why Stock Screening Works

Part Two: The Building Blocks Needed to Create and Interpret Screens

Chapter 3: A Little Bit About Company Accounts

Chapter 4: The Profit and Loss

Chapter 5: The Balance Sheet

Chapter 6: Cash Flow

Chapter 7: Accounting for Intangible Investment

Chapter 8: Financial Ratios and Fundamentals

Chapter 9: Growth Rates and Momentum

Chapter 10: Valuation Ratios and Red Flags

Chapter 11: A Little Bit About Company and Stock Analysis

Chapter 12: A Little Bit About Stock Screening Tools

Part Three: The Screens

Quality Investing

Chapter 13: The Earning Curve: Why Quality Investing Works

Chapter 14: Screening For High-Quality Stocks

Chapter 15: From Quantitative to Qualitative - How to Identify Real Quality

Chapter 16: Stock Selection for High Quality Large Cap

Contrarian Value Investing

Chapter 17: Averaging Up: Why Value Investing Works

Chapter 18: Screening for Contrarian Value

Chapter 19: From Quantitative to Qualitative - Will It Recover?

Chapter 20: Stock Selection for Contrarian Value

Dividend Investing

Chapter 21: Brilliantly Boring: Why Dividend Investing Works

Chapter 22: Screening for High Yield and Low Risk

Chapter 23: From Quantitative to Qualitative - Why Dividends, not Income?

Chapter 24: Stock Selection for High Yield Low Risk

Momentum Investing

Chapter 25: Crowd Computing: Why Momentum Investing Works

Chapter 26: Screening for Stocks with Great Expectations

Chapter 27: From Quantitative to Qualitative - What Kind of Stocks Have Great Expectations?

Chapter 28: Stock Selection for Great Expectations

Conclusion

Appendix 1: High Quality Large Cap Stocks

Appendix 2: Contrarian Value Stocks.

Appendix 3: High Yield Low Risk Stocks

Appendix 4: Great Expectations Stocks

Acknowledgements

Further Reading

Notes

About the Author

Publishing details.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780857199423

0857199420