4. For the Deeper Divers among Us: How to Use Quantitative Strategies to Enhance Fundamental Valuations

As opposed to the quantitative investor, most successful stock pickers invest after doing a complete analysis (or “deep dive”) of a company. Although accounting ratios and PE type valuation ratios may be part of their decision-making process, they will often know as much (or more) about the companies they invest in as senior management.

Although quantitative investing tools cannot help investors find out much about a company’s business, they can still be useful to such investors. In particular, they can help these investors narrow down the list of companies they have to review in their deep fundamental analysis. If the job of fundamental analysts ...

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