Fundamental Analysis

Stock prices move every day, but a company's real worth doesn't change nearly as often. Fundamental analysis is how you separate the two--looking past the noise of daily price swings to figure out what a business is actually worth.

This course teaches you to read a company like a business owner would. You'll dig into the three core financial statements--the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement--and learn what story they're really telling about a company's health.

From there, you'll master the key ratios investors rely on to size up a stock:

• EPS (Earnings Per Share) -- how much profit a company generates per share
• P/E Ratio -- whether a stock is cheap, expensive, or fairly priced relative to its earnings
• ROE (Return on Equity) -- how efficiently a company uses shareholder money to generate profit

Finally, you'll bring it all together to estimate a company's Intrinsic Value--your own independent estimate of what a stock should be worth, regardless of what the market is currently charging for it.

By the end, you won't just see ticker symbols and price charts--you'll see the actual business behind the stock, and you'll have a repeatable framework to judge whether it's a good investment or an overpriced story.