Forecating Financial Ratios for Equity Value Estimation

Forecasting Financial Ratios for Equity Value Estimation aims to evaluate a new approach on how to value equity in order to determine investment opportunities for short and mid term investments. Based on market behaviour and stock prices' reactions to quarterly results from companies, Value may be determined by analysing the trends that financial ratios show. Being analysed companies in the Technology Industry, these companies prove suitable to analyse and forecast ratios in order to determine equity value and investment opportunities, although further research may be ahead, this book will be of use for several investment and portfolio management applications. Analysing and estimating stock prices is a research field that offers several kinds of approaches, every one of which is valid in its own development and general acceptance by the financial community. Nowadays everything seems to be said in such fields of knowledge, nevertheless there are still opportunities that lead to build new theories and new approaches, which a few people take the time to explore.

Autorentext

Jorge Rivera Illera, MSc Finance from the University of Wales, UK, with more than 15 years' experience in finance and equity management, along his career has studied different approaches for equity value estimation as a means to increase investment portfolio profitability.