Simply Wall St: Stock Analysis 2.10.12

Researching companies, not stocks, is essential for any investor. Simply Wall St provides easy-to-use reports that offer expert-level analysis and insights to help investors make informed decisions.

With Simply Wall St, you can stay up to date with your investments by accessing important events and news related to your stocks, such as earnings, insider trades, and dividends. The dashboard serves as a centralized hub for all the latest developments.

The deep stock analysis offered by Simply Wall St allows you to utilize sophisticated techniques to identify new investment opportunities and delve into the details of companies. You can assess a company's past growth, future prospects, and dividend sustainability.

Investing is about companies, not tickers, and Simply Wall St helps you focus on what matters most by providing institutional-quality data and top-notch infographics. The platform concentrates on five areas of fundamental analysis: value, past growth, future growth, dividend, and health. Users can also explore pre-built investing ideas and screeners.

To assist in building a robust portfolio, Simply Wall St offers market analysis and news to inform your research and help you identify trends and opportunities that others may have overlooked.

The platform also analyzes your portfolio and visualizes it in a way that enhances your understanding of where you are invested and identifies strengths and weaknesses. You'll be able to track your portfolio's performance and stay updated with the latest news and analysis.

Finding new investing ideas is made easier with Simply Wall St's detailed stock screener and powerful discover collections. You can search for stocks based on your specific criteria and leverage the snowflake analysis to find companies that align with your preferences, whether it's growth, value, dividend-oriented or something in between.

Simply Wall St's stock analysis employs institutional-quality data from Standard and Poor’s Capital IQ, conducting 30 checks across five different areas. Over 1,000 data points are analyzed for each company, with updates occurring every six hours. The platform also presents a snapshot of a company's investment profile through the Snowflake graph.

• Value: Includes discounted cash flow calculation (DCF), PE ratio, PB ratio, and PEG ratio.
• Future Performance: Incorporates analyst estimates of future earnings growth, revenue, cash flow, earnings, and return on equity.
• Past Performance: Examines EPS growth, return on equity (ROE), return on capital employed (ROCE), and return on assets (ROA) over the past five financial years.
• Financial Health: Analyzes a company's balance sheet, with a specific focus on its debt levels. Banks and financial institutions have a different financial health analysis.
• Income (Dividends): Considers the absolute level of dividend payment, its comparison to other dividend payers, and assesses the volatility and sustainability of the dividend.

All of this analysis is connected to the stock screener, which allows users to search for companies that meet or exceed any of the checks and filter results by market, industry, and more.

Simply Wall St provides coverage for various stock markets around the globe, including the United States (NYSE, NASDAQ & OTC), Canada (TSX, TSXV & CSE), Australia (ASX), New Zealand (NZX), Hong Kong (HKG), Singapore (SGX), India (NSE & BSE), Austria (VIE), Belgium (EBR), Switzerland (SWX & BRSE), Germany (FRA, ETR, BST & MUN), Denmark (CPH), Spain (BME), Finland (HLSE), France (EPA), Greece (ATSE), Hungary (BUSE), Ireland (ISE), Italy (BIT), Luxembourg (BDL), Netherlands (AMS), Norway (OB), Poland (WSE), Portugal (ELI), Russia (MCX), and Sweden (STO).