This work reports on the 500 companies making up the new Standard & Poor 500 and gauges the growth and stability of each stock's earnings. Entries for each company are packed with information such as... This description may be from another edition of this product.
My broker's website provides these S & P reports online in pdf format, updated frequently throughout the year, but I like to have the annual book at my fingertips too. I like to browse through the book to familiarize myself with the companies in the S & P 500, and to get investing ideas. The book is published annually in approximately mid-December, containing the reports as of early November of that year. For buy-and-hold investing, I look at the "Investibility Quotient" S & P gives each company, and the company's ten-year dividend history, among other things. Some years I buy the annual Morningstar Stocks 500 book too.
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