• Financial Ratios

  • useless on their own, only comparable across time and sector

    • accounting rules/legislation may be different across the world
      • ratios can change because of that
    • companies can also polish their ratios
      • easy to misuse and manipulate
  • used to predict

    • imprecise and hard to make
    • hard to predict, since everyone is thinking about the same financial ratios
  • market efficiency

    • pricing of stocks is immediate
  • momentum effect

    • momentum in stock prices
  • jaunuary effect

    • assets outperform in January