Stock2own.com News

stock2own.com was completely redesigned. It looks different, it works faster and it organizes data in a better way.

For example, StockAnalyzer includes a company "snapshot" on the left side of the screen, where you can see all major information represented in a short form. Just click on any item, such as [Growth Rates] or [Technical Indicators] and you will see all detils on the same screen! Financial Statement sections present data in a mixed form now - you can see absolute values along with bar charts on the same screeen.

We were listening to your advices and included sevral new features in this new release. Just to mention a few - you can add analyzed symbol into your Watch List right from the StockAnalyzer page, you can see links to external resources for any of your WatchList items in the context menu...

Please, try and let us know what do you think. We hope you will like it.

Historical Overview added to Market Analysis Reports. Historical Overview located right after Financial Statements columns.

It adds new meaning to the report and allows to search through those companies where only current year or two are bad years, which is very common in the current market conditions. We hope, that using new report you will be able to find more interesting emerging companies for your portfolio.

This type of analysis was recommended by Phil Solk. THANK YOU!

Stock Analyzer added new functionality - Quarterly Financial Statements analysis. You can see Equity, EPS, Sales, Free Cash Flow, Cash From Opertion Activities, Gross Profit, Long Term Debt and Capital Expenditures for latest 5 quarters in the "Raw Quarterly Financial Data" section.

There is also a chart view available to visualize results (just point your mouse to "Show Chart" link in the title of the "Raw Quarterly Financial Data" section).

Stock2own.com started a new project - THE GAME! It designed to teach how to use technical indicators in order to make successful buy/sell decision on stock market.

The game focus is technical analysis. We believe that practice in reading technical indicators will help player develop necessary skills to make a quick and accurate buy/sell decision in a real world.

Come and try! This is FREE, educational and fun!

Yes, stock2own.com needs your help! And YES, we are ready to email you both "US Securities" and "NON-US Securities" reports for FREE. This is $40 value. All you have to do is as simple as 1-2-3:

• 1. Place an article, forum or blog post about stock2own.com on any publicly available investment-related or educational web site. It does not have to be long, 2-3 sentences is enough. See note below for restrictions applied.
• 2. Submit link to your post through Contact Us form (use type: Free Report Request). Please, do not forget to include your valid email address; your reports will be emailed to you!
• 3. Get most recent versions of both "US Securities" and "NON-US Securities" reports for FREE ($40 value) along with our appreciation.

Read more about Market Analysis Reports and how to get it free here.

1. Historical Price Chart added to the Stock Analyzer.

2. "Alternative Identifier" introduced for stocks.

Investors can use different identifiers such as exchange specific codes, ISINs and so on for the same company. Stock2own.com uses symbol as a primary stock identifier. We believe this is an easiest way to refer a stock. However, you can use any identifier you like, all of them will be shown in Watch Lists and Market Analysis Reports as "Alternative Identifier".

Whenever you go, you can always analyze stocks and read current market news at wap.stock2own.com!

You can run detail stock analysis (link Detail Analysis) or review compact information about stock (link Analyze Stock), including:

• industry
• market capitalization
• institutional ownership
• Sticker price (intrinsic value)
• MOS price
• recent market price

Please, be aware that your mobile browser must support JavaScript in order to analyze stocks at wap.stock2own.com.

Watch List contains one extra column - "TI Alert".

"TI Alert" means "Technical Indicators Alert" and shows most recent description of the Technical Indicator Charts for each symbol. This is a cumulative alert. You can customize your settings and include only technical indicators you are interesting in.

Looking for stock advice? Check lists of havily tagged and discussed stocks at Stock Analyzer.

There are 3 additional sections available now: Stock Comments, Stock Tags and Advanced Search, which allows you to search for relative info across all stock2own's services, such as forums, symbol comments, symbol tags and business summary descriptions.

New search features simplify your search for an investment ideas.

Weekly generated Market Analysis Reports contain recent market information about hundreds securities. Easy to filter and sort, include Technical Indicators Alerts and Financial Score.

There are several reports available at this time: "US-security", "NON-US securities" and "Banks and Loans".

All Market Analysis Reports generated in 2 formats: excel and csv (comma-separated-values).

Please refer to the Market Analysis Reports to read more about available reports.

There are two highly demanded features released today: symbol lookup and watch list export.

Symbol Lookup allows you to search for the symbol by business name. Please, be aware that stock2own.com does not maintain list of all available securities and there is always a chance that company you are looking for have never been analyzed at stock2own.com. If you cannot find company you are interested in, please, try alternative sources for symbol lookup.

Watch List Export is crucial. Ability to back up important data allows us to fill safe and secure. Now you can export watch list items into csv or excel file in just 1 click.

From now on you can comment stocks at stock2own.com. You can read recent comments in the Stock Analyzer and all registered users can post new comments.

This feature gives you an opportunity not only to share your thoughts, but build powerful stock profile with every valuable detail you can find. And most exciting is ability to do it TOGETHER!

Please, do not hesitate to organize teams or split most interesting stocks between all stock2own communities! Use forums to coordinate your collaborative efforts. Together we can do our research faster. Remember: if you give me an apple and I give you an apple, each of us will have an apple. If you give me an idea and I give you an idea, each of us will have 2 ideas!

Stock Analyzer can analyze non-US stocks!

Stock Analyzer can analyze stocks from Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Netherlands and Sweden. A lot of work, but not much to say. Just choose desired country from drop down list, type symbol and press "GO". It is simple as that. We know a lot of people were asking about non-US securities and finally we get it. Please, try!

P.S.
The primary data source is moneycentral.msn.com web site.

Multiple Watch Lists and Symbol Tagging released!

There are 3 major features released along with the several minor improvements:

• Multiple Watch Lists.
  From now on you can organize all your symbols in multiple watch lists! You can separate your holdings from potential prospects and maintain “risky” list separately. You can add the same symbol with the Sticker, MOS price and different notes to each watch list.
• Symbol Tagging.
  Tag symbols when you analyze them and see your own tags along with the other people tags.
• Pessimistic and Optimistic projections added to the Sticker Price calculations.
  Moderate projection will give you pretty much the same calculation results you could get on stock2own.com before this release. Pessimistic and Optimistic projections are nice additions. Get detail information about those projections in the Theory Section.
• Watch List improvements.
  There are several minor improvements in the Watch List interface. I hope you will like new “context menu”, which will popup when you move mouse pointer to the symbol in your Watch List.

Technical Indicators Charts are available now!

There are several places where you can find Technical Indicators Charts: Stock Analyzer, Stock Detail screen (available from Watch List), Watch List. Please refer to the Theory Section to read more about Technical Indicators.

Technical Indicators Charts available to registered users only. If you are not registered yet, register now! Registration is FREE.

Stock2own.com Watch List Upgraded.

Debt/FCF Ratio, Sticker Prices for 5 and 10 years estimates are added to the Watch List. Most importantly, it will show you a warning sign if new financial data released since you set your Sticker and MOS Price for the Symbol.

Please, be aware that all Sticker and MOS calculations used “Forward PE” which is analyst estimate of the Forward PE ratio. It means, every time when analysts change their mind, Sticker and MOS Price numbers will be changed. But not the numbers you set! Technically speaking, analysts can run their own estimates and you can run yours. ONLY if company released new yearly statement, stock2own.com will notify you by placing a warning sign in the Watch List for the symbol where new data is available.

Additional nice feature included into the new version of Watch List – if current Market Price is less than YOURS MOS Price, market price will be highlighted, so you can easily identify symbols with the attractive price.

Stock2own.com Search Engine Plugin allows you to analyze stocks in just one click!

Just install plugin in your browser and type ticker symbol at any time in the search input box - the rest will be done in a second by Stock Analyzer.

Please, be aware that not all internet browsers support search engine plugins. Firefox supports it since version 2.x, Internet Explorer since version 7.0

Watch List allows you to keep all your stocks (currently own or potential targets) in one place, monitor their prices and make a quick comparison. Financial and historical score is available for each stock. You can flag your stocks, you can add comments. Here is the list of core features released:

• You can easily add or remove new symbol in or from your Watch List by typing symbol and clicking corresponding button in the top section of the screen.
• You can sort your Watch List items ascending and descending by clicking the corresponding column header.
• For each row in your Watch List, you can see detail information, including all analytics you can find in the Stock Analyzer section PLUS you can set your own Sticker and MOS Price, you can flag the stock and you can add your own comments, such as reminders, research notes and so on.
• You can include Financial or Historical Score in each row of your Watch List.
• You can set filter and work only with filtered list.
• For each symbol in your Watch List you will be able to see current market price (or latest available price). Please, be aware of possible delays.

Watch List available for registered users only.

Need detail info? Please, take a look to the Help section.

Please, be aware that Stock Analyzer can give you quite a different results for some companies!

Most important change happened in the Growth Rate section. As you know we used to ignore negative values from Growth Rate calculations. It means if the value in the "Raw Data" is negative we could not proper calculate Growth Rate and ignored it. Basically, if the value was negative, the corresponding cell in the Growth Rate table was empty and it did not reflect in the result column, where we show good/fair/bad estimates.

From now on if the value in the "Raw Financial Data" cell is negative we put 0 in to the corresponding Growth Rate cell and Result value for this column/row will be "bad".

Sticker Price calculations. It was a lot of questions about "pessimistic/optimistic" approach of the Stock Analyzer Calculations. We compile a lot of suggestions, did a lot of tests and come up to the following changes. Instead of taking minimum between 5 and 10 year Equity Growth Rate as Estimated EPS Growth Rate, from now on we take average for all available historical Equity Growth Rates. Sounds like the result is much better and much more reliable. Plus, for each calculation you can find a detail explanation in the footer of the "Sticker Price" section.

Last, but very important improvement - we added Debt/Free Cash Flow Ratio to the Stock Analyzer. This small but important piece of analysis was missing and you had to go to "Raw Data" section and make sure that Long Term Debt is not to big. Now you can see the Debt/Free Cash Flow Ratio which reflects The Rule on Debt by Phil Town.

• We started to build a S2O community. We believe that effective communication is very important for your success as an investor.
• Now you can create your own profile at stock2own.com and express yourself in the forums, read stock2own.com blog and subscribe to stock2own.com RSS feeds! Registration is FREE!
• New market news sources added to the Blogs and News section, including Reuters and Phil Town's blog!

• Market News tab added.
  Stock Market, Business News, upcoming IPOs and Financial News from the leading news providers such as MarketWatch.com, Business Week, ZACKS...
• We added search box to the default page. We hope it will help you to search stock2own.com. In order to search effectively we are using GOOGLE's search API. So, please, do not hate it if you can not find results at the first time - it may take a few days to reindex new pages.
• FAQ section added. Please, take a look.
• MOS Price calculator "Do your own math" added to the Stock Analyzer. Now you can run your own numbers!