Standard & Poor's SmallCap 600 Guide, 1998 Edition (STANDARD AND POOR'S 600 GUIDE) - Softcover

Standard & Poor's

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070526133 ISBN 13: 9780070526136

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1998

This pioneering index tracks up-and-coming businesses with giant growth potential. Each of the 600 profiles of smallcap companies--average capitalization $300 million--includes a summary of business activity and recent development, essential data on earnings, and other vital financial information.

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The authoritative guide to the up-and-coming stocks that could be tomorrow's corporate giants

Imagine how wealthy you'd be if you'd invested in Microsoft or Intel or Amazon.com when they first went public!

Each of the 600 companies on the S&P SmallCap 600 index (average capitalization of $586 million) are up-and-coming businesses with enormous growth possibilities. Now, with the authoritative information in Standard & Poor's SmallCap 600 Guide, 2001 Edition, you have the potential to pick the blue-chip stocks of tomorrow and make investments that could reap enormous rewards.

With the comprehensive data and analyses in this handy reference, you have all of the resources of Standard & Poor's, America's leading securities information company, at your fingertips. In this easy-to-use guide you will find:

-Buy, sell, or hold recommendations
-A summary of the company's business activity, recent developments, and sales history
-Company addresses, telephone numbers, and names of key corporate officers
-Key income and balance sheet statistics
-Exclusive Standard & Poor's ranking (from A+ to D) based on historical growth and stability of earnings and dividends
-Plus, computer-generated screens showing superior stock picks in many different categories.
-Companies with consistently strong earnings growth
-Underfollowed stocks
-Stocks with low P/Es and high growth rates

More than one million business readers use Standard & Poor's rankings to guide them in making financial decisions. With the important - and often hard to acquire - information in this valuable resource, you may be able to pick, and profit from, the corporate giants of the future.

About the Author:

Standard & Poor's, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, is the nation's leading securities information company. It provides a broad range of services, including their respected bond and stock ratings, advisory services, and data guides. It's S&P 500 stock index is among the most closely-watched and widely-reported gauges of stock market activity. S&P products are marketed around the world and are used by both financial professionals and individual investors.

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