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Should I use common equity or total equity for book value? (when replicating Lewellen's 2015 paper on a cross section of expected stock returns)
I'd hereby would like to ask if any of you know whether I should use common equity or the total equity value, when computing monthly BM ratio's as done by Lewellen is his 2015 paper on a cross section ...
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Calculate PE ratio of equal-weighted index
I need to calculate Price-to-Earnings Ratio (PE Ratio) of an Equal-weighted index.
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P/E Ratio of a stock index
I tried to find the P/E ratio of a stock index. Should I calculate the weighted harmonic mean of all constituents OR select the weighted median P/E ratio as the index's P/E?
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From SEC Comprehensive Data Set to Clean Balance Sheets/Income Statements
I am looking for advice on how to smartly get from unstructured financial data to a clean summary of balance sheets. I think of this not as a coding problem but of a question how to approach the task -...