AAII - West Suburban Sub-Group in Naperville, IL . . . Newsletter & Information Blog

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

FEBRUARY MEETING: Thursday, February 17, 2005

The next meeting of the AAII - West Suburban Sub-Group will take place on Thursday, February 17, 2005 at DePaul University - located at 150 West Warrenville Road in Naperville, Illinois.

Meeting runs from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. And the room number will be displayed on the easel located near the reception desk in the main lobby.

Our topic will be, "How Well Do You Speak The 'Language' of Investing?" ... It's amazing how many of us recognize certain of the more than 4,000 investment terms from either seeing or hearing them used but yet, we may not actually fully understand their definitions. So we hope that you may come away from this meeting with a better grasp of investing lingo!

As always, our meetings are open to anyone who has an interest in learning and talking about investing. Each meeting is free to fully paid up Group members (the annual membership fee is still $15.00 per year) while guests are welcome for a $5.00 donation per each meeting.

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You may be interested in the new ValueSheet spreadsheet that was created by member Bryant Sheehy and available as a download from AAII. This Excel spreadsheet can analyze up to 10 years of financial data for publicly traded companies and provide fundamental analysis for making buy, hold, and sell decisions. Specifically, ValueSheet evaluates a company based on growth, profitability, financial strength, asset efficiency, management effectiveness and valuation. Historical trends are analyzed on a quarterly and annual basis and allow for projection of future stock performance.

There are two versions of ValueSheet: one is semi on-line and the other is fully on-line. The semi on-line version downloads five years of fundamental data from Reuters, Yahoo!, and Zacks.com and has the ability to print the information. Because this version is not completely on-line, some data must be manually entered. The fully on-line version automatically downloads the required data.

The semi on-line version normally costs $39.95 - but it is offered for free in the AAII download library.

The file size is 2.56M
System Requirements: Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP.
Special Requirements: MS Excel 7.0/95 or later for semi on-line version; the on-line version (priced at $59.95) requires MS Excel 2000 or later.

To download ValueSheet (semi on-line version) go to:
http://www.aaii.com/dloads/download.asp?DOWNLOAD_ID=571

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