General American Investors Preferred Stock Fundamentals

GAM-PB Preferred Stock  USD 25.00  0.06  0.24%   
General American Investors fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to General American's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of General Preferred Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure General American's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to General American preferred stock.
  
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General American Investors Company Beta Analysis

General American's Beta is one of the most important measures of equity market volatility. Beta can be thought of as asset elasticity or sensitivity to market. In other words, it is a number that shows the relationship of an equity instrument to the financial market in which this instrument is traded. For example, if Beta of equity is 2, it is expected to significantly outperform market when the market is going up and significantly underperform when the market is going down. Similarly, Beta of 1 indicates that an asset and market will generate similar returns over time.

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Current General American Beta

    
  1.02  
Most of General American's fundamental indicators, such as Beta, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, General American Investors is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
In a nutshell, Beta is a measure of individual stock risk relative to the overall volatility of the stock market. and is calculated based on very sound finance theory - Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM).However, since Beta is calculated based on historical price movements it may not predict how a firm's stock is going to perform in the future.
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, General American Investors has a Beta of 1.0237. This is much higher than that of the sector and significantly higher than that of the Beta industry. The beta for all United States preferred stocks is notably lower than that of the firm.

General American Inv Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining General American's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare General American value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across General American competition to find correlations between indicators driving General American's intrinsic value. More Info.
General American Investors is rated # 5 in price to earning category among its peers. It is one of the top stocks in price to sales category among its peers fabricating about  15.43  of Price To Sales per Price To Earning. Comparative valuation analysis is a catch-all model that can be used if you cannot value General American by discounting back its dividends or cash flows. This model doesn't attempt to find an intrinsic value for General American's Preferred Stock. Still, instead, it compares the stock's price multiples to a benchmark or nearest competition to determine if the stock is relatively undervalued or overvalued.

General Beta Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses General American's direct or indirect competition against its Beta to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the preferred stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of General American could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing General American by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
General American is currently under evaluation in beta category among its peers.
General American returns are very sensitive to returns on the market. As the market goes up or down, General American is expected to follow.

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About General American Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze General American Investors's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of General American using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of General American Investors based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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General American Investors Company, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. General American Investors Company, Inc. was founded in 1927 and is based in New York, New York. General American is traded on New York Stock Exchange in the United States.

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General American financial ratios help investors to determine whether General Preferred Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in General with respect to the benefits of owning General American security.