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Hi, Tomasz:
This old message has two things in it which you may want.
You had asked, in the To-Do list, what fundamental features we want - here are
some old suggestions.
It also has information which you may want to add to the main guide. Maybe it
can save you some retyping, etc.
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On 24-Nov-98, Tomasz Janeczko wrote:
> Hello Donald,
> >Should not the label for the gadget for the number of shares be "Shares
> >Issued", or better yet, "Shares Outstanding"?
> Yes, the gadget shows Number of Shares Issued.
> >Nominal value: do you mean book value?
> No. Nominal value is not that important to ordinary stock-player. It is
> given in prospectus and refers to the company's
> capital. It is a value of stock capital divided by number of shares.
> So, for example in Wall Street Journal from March 11,1998, there was an add
> saying that 7000000 Shares of GPU, Inc.
> are offered -Common Stock (par value ___$2.50____ per share) - Price
> $39.5625 per Share.
> So in this example Nominal value is given in brackets
> >
> >Book value: do you mean market capitalization? If so, could AmiBroker not
> >calculate the Market Cap (# of shares * value)? Would Common Equity be
> >a better (but harder to get) figure?
> Book value is bookvalue. Nothing more. It is published (at least) once a
> year after closing financial year.
> It can not be calculated by AmiBroker. It is needed for calculation of P/BV
> (Price to Book Value) ratio.
> >
> >Re: the Financial Data window
> >
> >Income: the manual just says "sales income". Not all financial reports
> include
> >"sales" figures, so I presume this is actually for Gross Income or
> Revenues, and EAT is being used as Net Income?
> Yes, not all financial reports include "sales income". It works only for
> trading companies. Gross income will work in most cases.
> EBT are Earnings Before the Tax
> EAT are Earnings After the Tax ( not an income! ) - it is needed to
> calculate P/E (Price to Earnings ratio)
> >The most sought after information is that related to earnings growth.
> >Do you have anything planned for this?
> Yes, I thought about it but in general I will not implement more
> fundamental support into AmiBroker
> in 3.0. I have so much to do now, without the fundamentals so it will wait
> at least some months.
> >Since Price/Book numbers mean little in a low inflationary market, it would
> >be nice to have some more relevant numbers available for current
> conditions,
> >such as Price/Sales, debt ratios, even dividend records (5 years?).
> You are right, but as I wrote, this must wait.
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
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