Standard & Poor's Midcap 400 Guide, 2001 Edition [Paperback]

Standard & Poor's Staff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 18, 2000

What do individual investors, money managers, analysts, brokers, and financial writers and editors have in common? All turn to Standard & Poor's, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, for securities information that is second to none. S&P's Guides, totally updated for 2002, deliver the same data and analyses used by today's top investment professionals. Each book puts these unique features at the reader's fingertips:
-- Vital data on earnings, dividends, and share prices
-- Key income and balance sheet statistics
-- Exclusive S&P buy, sell, or hold recommendations for each stock
-- Exclusive S&P outlook for every stock's price
-- Computer-generated screens showing superior stock picks in different categories
-- Company addresses, and numbers, and names of top officers

Key information on America's medium-size, fast-growing companies.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

"The midcap sector is the stock market's new turf." - Heard on the Street," The Wall Street Journal

When the world's most respected financial analysis organization first introduced the S&P MidCap 400 index in 1991, Wall Street was shocked! Stocks in this unassuming segment were outperforming the rest of the market - even the largecap companies of the famous S&P 500 index! Today, the most savvy investors keep close watch on the 400 mid-size, lesser-known companies (average capitalization of 2.1 billion) in Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 index.

Here is everything you need to evaluate all of the fast-growing companies in Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 index. This easy-to-use reference includes:

*Exclusive buy, sell, or hold recommendations *A summary of each company's business activity, recent developments, and sales history *Company addresses, telephone numbers, and the names of key corporate officers *Vital data on earnings, dividends, and share prices *Key income and balance sheet statistics

In addition, handy charts show you:

*Stocks with A+ or A earnings and dividend rankings *Companies with five consecutive years of earnings increases *Rapid growth stocks *Companies with fast-rising dividends *Companies paying higher dividends in each of the past 10 years

More than one million business readers have already benefited from Standard & Poor's highly respected rankings, which offer information often unknown even to financial pros. Now, this authoritative, comprehensive guide hands every investor all the tools you need to identify the "hot stocks" of the future.

Product Details

• Paperback: 832 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (December 18, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071365036
• ISBN-13: 978-0071365031
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,812,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)