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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809541003321

Autore

Villalta Thomas

Titolo

The Large-Cap Portfolio [[electronic resource] ] : Value Investing and the Hidden Opportunity in Big Company Stocks + Web Site / / Thomas Villalta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Wiley, 2012

ISBN

1-280-67267-6

1-118-53168-X

9786613649607

1-118-28719-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Bloomberg Financial

Classificazione

BUS027000

Disciplina

332.6322

666.14

666/.14

Soggetti

Stocks

Investments - Psychological aspects

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance

Ceramic industries -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses

Ceramic industries -- Waste disposal -- Congresses

Nuclear facilities -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses

Radioactive waste disposal -- Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Large-Cap Portfolio: Value Investing and the Hidden Opportunity in Big Company Stocks; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Parts of This Book; Notes; Part I: The Large-Cap Opportunity and Challenge; Chapter 1: Trends in Large-Cap Investing and the Opportunities They Present; Defining a Large-Cap Stock; Understanding the S&P 500 Index; Examining the Growth of Indexed Equities; Defining Active Management; So What Does This Mean for Investors?; Two Additional Considerations; Finally, Something Timely; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 2: Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Measures of Risk

Accounting Measures of RiskDifferentiating between Certain and



Uncertain Cash Flows; Conclusions; Notes; Part II: Market Inefficiency; Chapter 3: An Introduction to Market Efficiency; The Basis for Market Efficiency; Efficient Markets Hypothesis; Empirical Support for the Efficiency of Markets; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 4: Evidence of Inefficiency in Investor Behavior and Market Behavior; Closed-End Fund Discounts and Premiums; Market Bubbles and Market Crashes; Investors vs. Their Investment . . . or Investors vs. Themselves; Book-to-Market Effects and Other Value Criteria; Conclusions

NotesChapter 5: Individual Decision Making; That Thing about Our Being Rational . . .; Bayesian, Non-Bayesian-What Does This Mean?; Great Companies Always Make Great Stocks; Representative Sequences; Now That You Put It That Way . . .; Dropping an Anchor in a Sea of Information; Conclusions; Appendix: Utility Theory and Prospect Theory; Utility Theory and Rationality; Prospect Theory; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 6: Correlated Mistakes and the Failure of Arbitrage; Herding and Why We're Predisposed to Correlated Mistakes

Evidence of Herding in Securities Markets and in the Analysis of Common StocksFeedback Mechanisms and Mood Contagions; Smart Arbitrageurs Will Save Us! Won't They?; Some Related Considerations in Approaching the Active Management of Investments; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 7: Conventional Views on Sources of Market Inefficiencies; Structural Impediments to Market Efficiency; Pertinence to Large-Cap Universe; Conclusions; Appendix: Underexplained Market Phenomena; Notes; Part III: Research and Portfolio Management

Chapter 8: Identifying Large-Cap Stock Opportunities and Optimizing Research ProcessesIdentifying Large-Cap Stock Opportunities; Filters and Relative Assessments of Value; Subjective Identification of Overoptimism and Overpessimism; Overconfidence, Information Overload, and the Structure of Investment Firms; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 9: Approaching Growth in Large-Cap Stock Research; Are We Good at Predicting Growth?; Equity Valuation Basics; Limitations to Estimating Long-Term Growth Rates; Abnormal Growth Magnitude and Abnormal Growth Duration; Traditional Methods for Determining Growth

Perversions of Growth Estimates in Large-Cap Stocks

Sommario/riassunto

The practical guide to finding value and opportunity in large-cap stocks using investor behavior Large-Cap is an abbreviation of the term ""large market capitalization"" and refers to the stock of publicly traded companies with market capitalization values of roughly more than 10 billion, like Walmart, Microsoft, and Ford. Because of their size, the conventional view is that these companies do not present investors with an ability to be opportunistic. The Large-Cap Portfolio + Website argues that, contrary to popular perceptions, significant opportunities exist in these stocks.