by Zack Miller on March 15, 2010
David Bianco, chief U.S. stock strategist at Bank America Merrill Lynch, suggests that the investors made far less in the past 50 years than the S&P 500 suggests, as quoted in Bloomberg. While the S&P 500 returned an average of 9.5 percent annually for the 50-year period, the comparable figure after all the adjustments [ed. [...]
As investors, we sometimes get too fixed on trying to find financial metrics that provide some level of predictability to stock price movement. A recent study shows that low price/sales and price/earnings ratios aren’t the only thing we should be looking at. The BrandZ portfolio, developed by leading public relations firm, WPP’s Millward Brown Optimor, [...]