Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns, Revised and Updated (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231203043)

Most investment books try to assess the attractiveness of a stock price by estimating the value of the company. Expectations Investing provides a powerful and insightful alternative to identifying gaps between price and value.

Michael J. Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport suggest that an investor start with a known quantity, the stock price, and ask what it implies for future financial results. After showing how to read expectations, Mauboussin and Rappaport provide a guide to rigorous strategic and financial analysis to help investors assess the likelihood of revisions to these expectations. Their framework traces value creation from the triggers that shape a company's performance to the impact on the value drivers. This allows a practitioner of expectations investing to determine whether a stock is an attractive buy or sell candidate.

Investors who read this book will be able to evaluate stocks of companies in any sector or geography more effectively than those who use the standard approaches of most investors. Managers can use the book's principles to devise, adjust, and communicate their company's strategy in light of shareholder expectations.

This revised and updated edition reflects the many changes in accounting and the business landscape since the book was first published and provides a wealth of new examples and case studies.

Author: Michael Mauboussin, Alfred Rappaport
ISBN-10: 0231203047
ISBN-13: 9780231203043
Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.06w x 1.10d