How do i construct a equally-weighted industry portfolios (hp and ibm) and equally-weighted portfolio of all 4 stocks ?
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Just buy the same amount of money in each company.\n\nBy the way a portfolio of 4 stocks with 50% in Computer Hardware and 50% in Cars is very risky.
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to find "your portfolio" you'll have to make it up, Listing all your financial investments as well as your assets and debts.\n\nFor the end of the week stock quotes look in the paper or look them up individually in the computer
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You can't actually hold 2.43 or 23.13 shares, it should be 2 shares and 23 shares.\n\nBut to answer you question, you would have lost 32.19% on your yahoo investment, but gained 16.24% on your google investment
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The discrepency between forward and trailing P/E is not an indicator of whether a stock is undervalued or not.  Trailing P/E is Price/last 12 months earnings while forward P/E is Price/next 12 months earnings.  Each of these time periods are independent of one another and cannot be compared.  A better method may be to look at forward P/E for your stock versus the industry average forward P/E over time.  It is important to look at a time series of data to determine what is normal for the industry and how your target firm relates to the industry average.  \n\nBe careful when using relative valuations like this for long term investment decisions.  Some firms are priced relatively higher or lower than an industry based on their earnings for a reason.  Typically, the market values the quantity of earnings (captured in the P/E) and the quality of the earnings (not captured in the P/E).  The quality of the earnings relates to the riskiness of the earnings.  Actually, to be technically correct, the market values cash flows, which may or may not relate to earnings.  Earnings can be manipulated by management to make a firm appear stronger or more stabile than it truly is.  Over the last few years, there have been many examples of firms going under and upper management being tried for earnings manipulation.  \n\nI am an advocate of the Discounted Cash Flow approach, but if you are interested in relative valuation and strategies that are based on multiples, Aswath Damodaran (professor at NYU) has some really good texts talking about taking an economic approach to price multiples.  Another good text is "Security Analysis on Wall Street" by Hooke.\n\nSome other multiples that you may be interested in are the PEG ratio (P/E divided by growth), market-to-book (became very popular in the 80's), and Price/Sales (good for valuing start-ups, tech firms, and many service firms).  Keep in mind that while a ratio may hold well in terms of valuation for one industry, it may not hold well for other industries.  Additionally, within an industry, differences in firms' capital structure, revenue recognition, depreciation methodologies, capitalization policies, and off-balance sheet financing may force you to restate ratios in order to make them comparable and relevant.
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yahoo did away with portfolio tracking several months ago. Try marketwatch.com or even better morningstar.com
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Your best bet is to buy S&P DEP RECEIPTS (Symbol SPY).  they give you the diversity of the S&P 500 index.
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You can get a feel for the "game" and not own a share of any stock. Select some stocks you think might be a good buy and set up a portfolio on a spreadsheet. Follow the stocks over a period of time and see how you did. Have a reason why you picked each stock and see if it turns out to be correct.\n\nAlso pick a couple of good index mutual funds from Vanguard, Fidelity, T Rowe Price and see how they do. I'd bet in a year they will be doing better than the total of the stocks you pick yourself.
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this leads to list of companies with names that maybe easier to copy-paste in batches into excel. i don't see the capitalization value though\n\nhttp://www.allstocks.com/html/complete_list_of_stocks__nyse_.html
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My portfolio has this three head monster: Diode(DIOD), King Pharmaceutical(KG), Fording Canadian Coal Trust(FDG).
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It is reasonable for a web site to display daily highs and lows for specific securities, but the validity of such figures for a portfolio of multiple securities is questionable.\n\nA simplified approach would be just to add up all the daily highs for each security and show that as the daily high of the portfolio, and do the same for the daily lows, but since the different securities were presumably traded independently during the day, unless the software has records of every trade for every security for the full day, it is impossible to know what the value of the portfolio was at any time, and the software cannot know the true max and min values.
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No offense to the person whom answered previously regarding not investing in single stocks but investing in money markets and mutual funds but this information is seriously flawed.\nIf you are investing in steel, you are likely aware of the significant problems this industry has faced over the last several years.  Given this and the current economic cycle, steel could again face problems.  For this reason, if you are investing in individual sectors, you might want to consider buying a basket of stocks.  STQ is a good example - Phily exchange 15 stocks.\nIf you have a balanced portfolio, individual stocks is NOT like gambling.  Gambling is statistically a neutral event, yet returns for equity markets (individual stocks) are skewed to the right and thus have a positive return.  Investing in individual stocks, after doing homework, can lead to a strong portfolio if you are good at selecting investments.  But this is not for everyone and using a broker to "help" is not a good guarantee.  Start first with what you know, understand the financials, listen to company conference calls, and talk with the investor relations people.\nNow regarding levels, backstops, et al...\nI would suggest using Bigcharts.com.  Read a few books on charting -- it does have some validity to the subject but weigh the charts with the backdrop of the current economic conditions. For example, this explains the recent sell-off.  Ask yourself, what is the short interest in these stocks!  Use differant methods can often yld differant results with technicals (as can fundamentals).  But you have to do the work here.\nFor starters: drawing a line at the ~340 would provide a support resistance line that has been tested a few times.  Recently this was tested and held.   However, be aware that it did break a major uptrend that began in ~10/05 and continues to be declining.  IMHO, the 340 is likely to be a significant lvl.\nAs to the last point of the other person's comment.  Sorry to say, but Money Markets are not alternative investments to stocks.  Stocks are long-term while Money markets are short-term.
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Place the cursor in the first column of the row column descriptions, nagivate to DATA>FILTER->Auto Filter (select).  Now move to the column with say Pet type and Select "Kitten".  Move to the column with Stock balances and select Custom->Less than or equal To and enter 100. I hope this helps and answers the question.
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TRY YAHOO STOCK ADVANCED SEARCH.  IT ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH AND COMPARE DIFF STOCKS ON ALMOST ANY ASPECT OF THE STOCK, VOL, SHRS OUTS., DIVD....EXT.  YAHOO/FINANCE/INVESTING/STOCKS/STOCK SCREENER.
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The funds chosen by you are some of the best funds available in the market. Still the portfolio can be fine tuned. Just consider the following points from my point of view.\n\n1.Fidelity Tax Advantage is new fund and hence doesn’t have track record.  No point in having a four tax saving schemes in a portfolio.  Just two or three would suffice. Any diversification beyond three is just an overhead from the point of view of operational tracking and maintenance.  Add this amount to HDFC TaxSaver.\n2.Just three AMC (at max four) is sufficient from the point of view of diversification. Hence, you can ignore Reliance Vision which is an aggressive fund and replace it Bluechip fund or Prima Plus which have all along delivered excellent returns with low volatility.\n3.While Templeton Pension Plan is good product, from the long term holding perspective, I don’t see it as right product. Hence you may ignore this. \n4.You have two products from SBI stable and the amount works out to 3000.  Instead of another fund house, I would suggest you to chose FTMIP from Franklin and invest the 2000+2000+1000 (TPP, Magnum Taxgain and Magnum Contra).  This will achieve two things.  Reduction in no of AMCs to three and increase in debt investment as your portfolio is highly skewed to equity.\n5.Through the above changes, a. the debt portion which was minimal will be above 20%.  Even an aggressive portfolio should have a 20% debt component and should be rebalanced regularly (once a year is fine), b. The no. of AMCs has been brought down to 3 (and these are best AMCs based on their investment approach and risk management), c. Number of funds brought down.\n6.I don’t know why you have chosen Dividend Reinvestment plan for most of your funds.  You could chose Growth as it eliminates some of the issues related to short term capital gains.\n\nYour revised portfolio can be:\n1.HDFC TAX SAVER (D-Reinvest) 6,000\n2.FRANKLIN INDIA TAXSHIELD (G) 5,000\n3.HDFC PRUDENCE (D-Reinvest) 2,000\n4.FTIBCF or FPP 2000\n5.SUNDARAM SELECT MIDCAP (G) 1,000\n6.FTIMIP 5000\n\nGood luck.
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i wnont . buy IBM .HP . COMPAQ. DELL. TOSIBA. SONY. ONE OF THEM
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www.valueresearchonline.com\n\nYou can sign up on this site and manage your portfolio easily, and its free.
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h. a variety of ways.\n1.  If a stock becomes overvalued, I replace it.\n2.  If, upon periodic evaluation, I can show that a better opportunity in terms of likely long term return exists with less risk.\n3.  If the portfolio undergoes a singularity, I check to determine if the portfolio is still holding the best priced low risk stocks.  The measure of which tends to exceed my patience with writing a post.  That would actually be a technical measure since it has to do with price curves rather than fundamentals.  They occur very infrequently but tend to last quite a while.\n4. I use Kaizen as a method of process improvement, so I also update the portfolio if I can show a process in use is inferior to other processes and then remove securities purchased under the inferior process.\n\nI happen to participate in a stock picking game and it mimicks my real portfolio.  You can decide if one should use fundamentals or not.  It is at http://www.marketocracy.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Portfolio.woa/ps/FundPublicPage/source=CaHiHdImDlIfEbAoMaKiAbOa