Finance Roundtable

In one of my earlier posts I outlined the median house price in United States for last 40+ years and calculated that the median house price has been rising at 6% annually for the last 40+ years.In this post I present you a table starting with January of 2000 to ...

The table below lists the Dogs of the Dow Jones Industrial Average as of 4/17/2007 along with the yield of the each Dow component.Symbol Company Name Dividend YieldMO ALTRIA GROUP 4.95% PFE Pfizer Inc. 4.35% VZ Verizon Communications Inc. 4.33% C Citigroup Inc. 4.19% T AT&T Inc. 3.66% GE General ...

There were 3 major bottoms in the S&P 500 in the last 35 years. These bottoms occured in 1974 at 63.54, in 1987 at 230.30 and in 2002 at 815.28. I am considering month-end prices instead of intra-day prices because we are looking at the history of 30+ years. Assuming ...

Reported earnings estimates are available at the Standard & Poor's website for the S&P 500 index for the year 2007 and 2008.2007 reported earnings estimates1st Quarter - $21.352nd Quarter - $23.403rd Quarter - $22.904th Quarter - $21.802007 total = $89.452008 reported earnings estimates1st Quarter - $24.202nd Quarter - $24.003rd Quarter ...

Chart of homebuilder KB Home (KBH):Chart of homebuilder D R Horton (DHI):Chart of homebuilder Ryland Group (RYL):Chart of homebuilder Lennar Corporation (LEN):Chart of homebuilder Pulte Homes (PHM):Chart of homebuilder Centex Corporation (CTX):Compare all these homebuilder stocks to Nasdaq:

SPY is an ETF type investment that tracks S&P 500 index. The current yield of SPY as of 7/17/2007 is 1.69%. I believe, SPY was one of the earliest ETFs ever created and it has been trading since the 1993-94 timeframe. In this post, I want to calculate the current ...

I am thinking about buying a new car for myself. This time around, fuel efficiency is the highest priority for me. I want my new car to give me at least 30 miles per gallon of gas in this $100 per barrel oil price environment. No, I am not going ...

The following table lists the sector allocation of 3 Vanguard index funds as of 12/31/2007; Vanguard total stock market index fund, Vanguard growth index fund and Vanguard value index fund.The Vanguard total stock market index follows MSCI US broad market index, the Vanguard growth index fund follows MSCI US prime ...

Whenever a recession approaches, mass layoffs increase by a lot in the economy. I found following data on the bureau of labor department’s website regarding mass layoff events. The table below lists the number of mass layoff events since the year 1996 as reported by BLS. As you can see ...

The 3-year cumulative returns for some Vanguard index funds are listed below in the table. The cumulative returns are as of 12/31/2007, so the returns include calendar year 2005, 2006 and 2007.These returns show that the large cap segment of the market is starting to outperform now and it is ...