Analyzing Stock Numbers

<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>

<p>You can use stock screeners to find companies within specific industries and that are at certain ratios that might be appealing to you.
[Stock</a> Screener - Yahoo! Finance](<a href=“http://screen.yahoo.com/stocks.html]Stock”>http://screen.yahoo.com/stocks.html)</p>

<p>That is a good tool! Thank you.</p>

<p>Do note that is not a replacement for due diligence.</p>