<p>I have always wondered, when books talk about looking at ratios and all the numbers and such, where do you find them? I understand what all the famous investors do and things like that except for where to actually find the numbers. Some sort of directory?</p>
<p>And once you find them, do you just look at each business one by one?</p>
<p>Is that what all the professional investors do, comb the numbers of each and every stock, one by one? Or is there a program that organizes every single stock for you?</p>
<p>I realize Yahoo! Finance has this stuff in it, but is there a convenient form of it?</p>
<p>Basically it's because I don't know how to find all of the random little stocks that are undervalued. Random little companies - do you just randomly pick from lists and look at the numbers to see if it a winning stock?</p>
<p>Obviously it takes a lot of skill to find the winning stocks, but it is the concept that I am talking about.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>