What are currently the cheapest stocks in the S&P 500? That’s a great question that I recently received. I decided to tackle this question using two simple and crude tools in the value investor toolbox, the price to book value ratio and the current ratio. The price to book (P/B) ratio has been a favorite of [...]
As I mentioned in my recent Companies that Passed the Graham-Shiller PE10 Ratio Stock Screen in 2002 post, here are the current results of the Graham-Shiller PE10 Screen as promised: Name Ticker PE10 CurRatioQ PE PB ROI The E.W. Scripps Company SSP 4.6 2.32 4.69 1.01 2.93 Blyth, Inc. BTH 5.37 2.86 7.59 1.17 10.22 [...]
After I posted the Graham-Dodd-Shiller 10 Year PE Ratio Stock Screen a few weeks ago, I received some great feedback from readers. I used that feedback to retool my PE10 stock screen and the results are below: Graham-Shiller PE10 Stock Screen Passing Companies as of December 20, 2010 Name Ticker PE10 CurRatio PE PB ROI [...]

