Value stocks tend to trade at a lower price relative to their fundamentals, such as dividends, earnings and sales, making ...

Relative valuation—using simple metrics to compare a firm’s value to its peers—is a cornerstone of financial decision-making. If a company earns $2 billion in profit, and if similar firms trade at 15 ...

Relative valuation offers the benefit of simplicity in valuing a company, but in this simplicity lies danger. Discover the caveats inherent to this methodology, and see if IBM shares are in fact ...

General Mills shares have underperformed the S&P 500 since the publication of my prior piece. The company recently cut guidance as it intends to increase investments in the near term in hopes of ...

VIG's dividend growth rate is lower than VOO's based on their latest dividend declarations. However, judging by the yield spread between VIG and VOO, VIG is trading at the most favorable relative ...

Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for analyzing economic and financial data and sharing it with others. The real value of an item is its nominal ...