Sentences with phrase «conventional security analysis»

Insofar as one labors under the assumption that the goal of security analysis ought to be predicting what the price performance of a publicly - traded common stock will be in the immediate future, conventional security analysis seems to be applying an appropriate emphasis to a primacy of the income account approach, as reported for GAAP purposes.

The fact is that in conventional security analysis, predicting market prices over the very near term is crucially important.

For one thing, in conventional security analysis, many believe that there ought to be a «normal holding company discount» of around 20 %.

In conventional security analysis what the numbers are tends to be far more important than what the numbers mean.

Conventional securities analysis, while helpful for trading purposes, contributes very little toward helping OPMIs understand businesses or the securities they issue.