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Analyzing Stocks on Your Own Harry Domash An imprint of PEARSON EDUCATION Upper Saddle River, NJ • New York • London • San Francisco Toronto • Sydney• Tokyo • Singapore • Hong Kong • Cape Town • Madrid Paris • Milan • Munich • Amsterdam www.ft-ph.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Domash, Harry Fire your stock analyst! : analyzing stocks on your own / by Harry Domash p cm Includes index ISBN 0-13-035332-9 (alk paper) Investment analysis I Title: Analyzing stocks on your own II Title HG4529 D566 2002 332.63`2042 dc21 200227871 Hardcover Edition Production Supervisor: Wil Mara Acquisitions Editor: Jim Boyd Developmental Editor: Jennifer Blackwell Editorial Assistant: Allyson Kloss Marketing Manager: Bryan Gambrel Manufacturing Manager: Alexis Heydt-Long Buyer: Maura Zaldivar Paperback Edition Vice President, Editor-in-Chief: Tim Moore Executive Editor: Jim Boyd Editorial Assistant: Susan Abraham Development Editor: Jennifer Blackwell Associate Editor-in-Chief and Director of Marketing: Amy Neidlinger Cover Designer: Sandra Schroeder Managing Editor: Gina Kanouse Senior Project Editor: Lori Lyons Senior Indexer: Cheryl Lenser Senior Compositor: Gloria Schurick Manufacturing Buyer: Dan Uhrig © 2006 by Financial Times Prentice Hall An imprint of Pearson Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 Financial Times Prentice Hall offers excellent discounts on this book when ordered in quantity for bulk purchases or special sales For more information, please contact U.S Corporate and Government Sales, 1-800-382-3419, corpsales@pearsontechgroup.com For sales outside the U.S., please contact International Sales at international@pearsoned.com Company and product names mentioned herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners Printed in the United States of America First Printing February 2006 ISBN 0-13-226038-7 Pearson Education LTD Pearson Education Australia PTY, Limited Pearson Education Singapore, Pte Ltd Pearson Education North Asia Ltd Pearson Education Canada, Ltd Pearson Educación de Mexico, S.A de C.V Pearson Education—Japan Pearson Education Malaysia, Pte Ltd Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey FINANCIAL TIMES PRENTICE HALL BOOKS For more information, please go to www.ft-ph.com Business and Society John Gantz and Jack B Rochester Pirates of the Digital Millennium: How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy Douglas K Smith On Value and Values: Thinking Differently About We in an Age of Me Current Events Alan Elsner Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America’s Prisons John R Talbott Where America Went Wrong: And How to Regain Her Democratic Ideals Economics David Dranove What’s Your Life Worth? 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