Al Marai is a Saudi Arab based company that deals in food with its headquarters in Riyadh. This company was centralized with the sole aim of making its products high quality and of improved standard. The mission of Almarai is to provide quality and nutritious food that benefits the lives of...

We study circumstances when analysts' forecasts diverge from managers' forecasts after management guidance, and the consequences of this divergence for investors and analysts. Our results show that investors' return response to earnings surprises based on analyst forecasts is significantly...

We develop a method for defining groups of peer firms on the basis of joint analyst coverage. Besides industry boundaries, analysts' coverage choices reflect other aspects of firm relatedness such as business model. We find that the analyst-based method produces substantially more homogenous...

Cover; Zum Inhalt_Autor; Titel; Vorwort; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Einleitung; Einleitung zur zweiten Auflage; 1. Grundlagen der Bilanzierung und Bilanzanalyse; 1.1 Bedeutung und Entwicklung des Rechnungswesens; 1.1.1 HGB/IFRS-Vergleich sowie US-GAAP; 1.1.2 Begrenzte Aussagekraft von Abschlüssen; 1.1.3...

We investigate the prediction of excess returns and fundamentals by financial ratios – dividend-price ratio, earnings-price ratio, and book-to-market ratio – by decomposing financial ratios into a cyclical component and a stochastic trend component. We find both components predict excess...

1. Presentation of Key Financial Metrics and Enterprise Value -- 2. Efficiency Ratios -- 3. Key Liquidity and Solvency Ratios -- 4. Debt Ratios -- 5. Profitability and Performance Ratios -- 6. Case Studies -- 7. Investment Thesis.

Komplett überarbeitete praxisorientierte Einführung in die Bilanz- und Kennzahlenanalyse sowie die Unternehmensbewertung. Ideal für den Einstieg in die Bewertung von Unternehmen. Zum Werk: Ist eine Aktie teuer oder günstig bewertet? Wie sind die Zukunftsaussichten und Kennzahlen...