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What works on Wall Street, the classic guide to the best-performing investment strategies of all time, James P. O'Shaughnessy

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

What works on Wall Street

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James P. O'Shaughnessy

the classic guide to the best-performing investment strategies of all time

Analyzes the past performance of a variety of popular stock investment strategies

Stock investment strategies : different methods, similar goals -- The unreliable experts : getting in the way of outstanding performance -- The persistence of irrationality : how common mistakes create tremendous opportunity -- Rules of the game -- Ranking stocks by market capitalization : size matters ; Price to earnings ratios : separating the winners from the losers -- EBITDA to enterprise value -- Price to cash flow ratios : using cash to determine value -- Price to sales ratios -- Price to book value ratios : a long term winner with long periods of underperformance -- Dividend yields : buying an income -- Buyback yield -- Shareholder yield -- Accounting ratios -- Combining value factors into a single composite factor -- The value of value factors -- One year earnings per share percentage changes : do high earnings gains mean high performance -- Profit margins : do investors profit from corporate profits? -- Return on equity -- Relative price strength : winners continue to win -- Using multifactor models to improve performance -- Dissecting the market leaders universe : the ratios that add the most value -- Sector analysis -- Searching for the ideal growth strategy -- Searching for the ideal value stock investment strategy -- Uniting the best from growth and value -- Ranking the strategies -- Getting the most out of your equity investments