Top Women executives and entrepreneurs

While women are still less than 3% of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies represented, female managers are more and more. These women have already reached incredible proportions and expect to be able to join them to more women in the next few years.   Women in leadership positions.   Indra Nooyi, president and CEO of PepsiCo   Born in India, Nooyi worked with Johnson & Johnson and Mettur Beardsell it. He moved to the U.S. for a master's from Yale University in 1980. His resume from that point on, the strategy includes positions at The Boston Consulting Group, Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri. In 1994, he joined PepsiCo and was President and Chief Financial Officer in 2001. Since then, the company's annual sales rose 72%. In 2006, Nooyi became CEO of PepsiCo.   Oprah Winfrey, chairman of Harpo   A TV show, Oprah Winfrey has a media empire that magazines. Radio and even TV include built. Besides being the first African American woman millionaire, who has been called "perhaps the world's most influential woman" by CNN.   Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard   Whitman was CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and finally a resume that includes increasing sales on eBay about 4 million U.S. dollars approximately EUR 8 billion, and the candidate for governor of California. His career has been some controversy, but it is undeniable that Whitman has a knack for the chairmanship of the CEO.   Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook   In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg, Sandberg from Google where he was responsible for online advertising. She took a job with a company that was profitable, and it was under his leadership that the decision to rely on ads to generate revenue has been made. It was a decision that led to the monumental growth of the company and the IPO.   Brenda Barnes, president and CEO of Sara Lee   Barnes made headlines when he resigned as CEO of PepsiCo to spend in 1997 to spend more time with his family. It is not the world of business. He served as interim president of Starwood Hotels & Resorts. In 2004, Barnes was the chief operating officer of Sara Lee was the reconstruction of the company as it moves into its organization.   Irene Rosenfeld, Chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods   Since his appointment as CEO of Kraft Foods in 2006, Rosenfeld has led to a restructuring of the company, and also oversaw the division of Kraft Foods sections. In 2011, Kraft Foods announced a plan to get into two companies, Rosenfeld door brands, to divide among international snacks.   Baseline   While women have made over the stairs, there are many young stars to just behind them. Keep an eye on these three leaders in the coming years.   Jessica Mah, co-founder and CEO of inDinero   Mah started his first business at age 12 Since then he has completed a degree in computer science at the University of California at Berkeley and founded another company. In Dinero, she even turned 22 yet.   Carl Sommer, co-founder of Urban Internal   Prior to founding his own company, practiced law and worked with the summer company of legal work. She saw the need for better research approach of prisoners, and began to solve the problem.   Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.Tv   Kaplan was a journalist for an Emmy Award for television before the founding of the blip.tv. The company provides a home for more than 50,000 original applications and receives more than 90 million viewers watched the video on your site every month.

How to measure whether a stock is good or bad

If you buy a stock, using data to drive your decision? Have you ever been in the analysissection of the essential information of an action and it was lost? In this paper, we will do some of the most important and how to use them to make more informed decisions.

 
SEE: 5 Must-Have Metrics for value investors
 
The Return on Investment
 
The return on investment (ROI) is simply themoney a company made or lost on an investment. If an individual investor were to invest later to $ 1,000 in shares of McDonald and five years, sold it for $ 2,000, which is a 100% return on investment or ROI had. The return is due to the cost of investment in order to produce the ROI divided. The problem with this measure is that it is easy to handle. Although the calculation is just what the company decides to change the cost of the investment can belong. Do they include all costs in the calculation or elected? Before relying on the return on investment, was calculated as.
 
Earnings per share (EPS)
 
EPS is a measure of business performance. Take the profits, dividends and subtract this number is divided by the number of outstanding shares. Although EPS tells investors how much money the company has earnings per share, but no information on pricing. If a company earned $ 10 per share and a profit of $ 12 per share, the profit of the company is the second most impressive, if you spent the same money or less in order to generate revenue. Use EPS in conjunction with other measures such as return on equity.
 

Price-earnings
 
The price-earnings (P / E Ratio) compares the current price of the company’s earnings per share. The P / E is calculated by dividing the price per share divided by earnings per share. This measure is one of the best ways to measure shareholder value.
 
If you are considering buying a new TV, you can compare features and prices of several televisions. One would expect to pay more for additional features. If television had fewer features and more technology, but cost as much or more than other TVs that cannot television be a good value.
 
When a population is a P / E ratio than other similar companies have investors can view shares as overvalued, unless the company has significant opportunities for growth or something else that the high P / E makes its money. Remember that the actual price of a share is not an indication of the value. A population of a higher price could be less valuable if the P / E is investigated.
 
Return on Equity
 
Return on equity (ROE) measures the profitability of a company. Shows the effectiveness of a company’s profit. To calculate ROE, earnings divided by the amount of investing capital or the total amount of money into the company. If Company A had had a profit of $ 2 million, but will receive $ 1,000,000 of shares which may be more effective than company B, which is also $ 2 million, but there was one, 5 million in equity. Company A is more efficient because they can make more money with less investment.
 

ROE should always be used in conjunction with other measures to assess the power of health and profits of an enterprise.
 
CAGR
 
Growth rate (CAGR) measures the annual growth rate of investment. Can see significant gains in recent years, while in other years, a loss of what might come back even more useful for investors to consult their taxes, on average, over time, rather than every year. If you have a portfolio of rental properties and some of them had. After calculating the average, you can increase your investment in the kind of investment that returns over the TCCA. The calculation is somewhat complicated, but this can be calculated.
 
Baseline
 
Successful investors are well informed and evaluate the ability of a company with these and other indicators. Look for these indicators in the action of fundamental analysis and decide for yourself if a company is an investment worth

Top five shares steady sales in March 2012

It is stable populations of the most reliable of the Month

I want to take a moment to a question that you may have reasons why Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) response was not included in my top 5 most important actions in February. It’s a fair question, given the population has grown 22% since then.
 
In choosing to take my top 5 steps to consider some things, including basic health and buying pressure. But one thing that works behind the scenes, is an act of risk-reward ratio. That’s because I want to capture the most stable populations with a stable return in my top 5. Apple has a dramatic history of price changes. Their risk-reward are greater than my usual limit for this list.
 
I know what you think, “But Apple is a great camp!” Yes, that’s true. But while Apple is still a high-quality paper, my top 5 of the monthly list of more than one exit point for new investors, so it requires less risk-reward ratio.
 
That means we get to our last game of five actions:
 
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALXN) was the undisputed champion of the top 5, after claiming to # 1 for six of the last seven numbers! And with the announcement of unrestricted corporate profits on 10 February, is it easy to see why. Thank you to booming sales of Soliris, the treatment of a rare blood diseases society, the company reported operating results for the explosion in the fourth quarter of last year.
 
Revenue rose 46% to $ 227.6 million, and earnings jumped 89% year on year to 48.2 million. Adjusted earnings per share were $ 0.41, surpassing the consensus estimate of 21%! The company is also optimistic about this year.
 
The company expects 2012 revenues of approximately $ 1040000000-1070000000 $. His forecast of operating income is in the range of $ 1.60 to $ 1.70 per share. The head orientation Alexion Street view of $ 1.67 per share, on revenue of 1.04 billion dollars.
 
Autozone
 
AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) is another veteran of the Top 5, as to capitalize on the growing trend of get more mileage cars remain. As a leading distributor of spare parts and car accessories, the company has more than 4832 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Give as evidence of the continuing commitment of the company back to shareholders, is auto zone in the middle of a $ 659 million share repurchase program.
 
The second quarter earnings announcement on 28 companies in February, is positive. Analysts had a revenue growth of 7% and 20% earnings growth that exceeded the estimate of expected 15.3% for the rest of the auto parts stores. AZO completed reports second quarter earnings per share of $ 4.15, $ 3.34 in the previous year.
 
Dollar General
 
Dollar General (NYSE: GD) has been one of my new purchases in February and has already proven itself. As I mentioned last month, the company operates nearly 10,000 stores in the continental United States and has big plans for opening additional branches in 625 in 2012.
 
The interesting thing is that Dollar General is in direct competition with Dollar Tree (NYSE: DLTR), I’ll talk then. However, there are advantages that both populations have. Today the two are head to head in terms of sales growth and operating margins, but Dollar General is a bit bigger in terms of market capitalization. And while Dollar Tree up to its name and the types of their price $ 1 dollar prices for their general merchandise $ 10 or less. This means that Dollar General a wide range of food and durable goods, including electronic offers.
 
Dollar General is the result of 22 March to announce, and analysts expect sales growth of 17.8%. The company also expects to grow its sales by 26.2%, which is almost four times the average of 6.9% of the industry to benefit the growth is.
 
Dollar Tree
 
Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) is an additional discount is worth owning, with fantastic views, with Dollar General. While Dollar Tree is smaller than Dollar General is growing rapidly. In the third quarter, the company opened 98 new branches, that is, the number of branches increased by almost 3%.
 
Dollar Tree also has a higher return on capital employed and the long-term growth of Dollar General. The announcement of the result of 22 February Dollar Tree said again of $ 187.9 million or $ 1.60 per share to $ 162.5 million or $ 1.29 per share, while in comparison with the same period last year.
 
McDonald’s
 
McDonald’s(NYSE: MCD) McDonald Top 5 laps of the month. By now, you’ve probably noticed that some of the best companies out there that bargain hunters in the service of the United States. The U.S. consumer spending recovers the estimate, however. And fast food, no chain offers customers more for your money and McDonald Dollar Menu.
 
No wonder, then, reports the company is better than expected results for the fourth quarter, including 10% sales growth and 11% earnings growth. Looking head, the entire administration of the expected sales growth of 5.5% in January of 6.5%. With its substantial dividend yield of 2.8%, the DCM is still a great buy for the long term.

Ford and GM are Smokin ‘on the accelerated turnover

Ford and GM are Smokin ‘on the transaction, which accelerates
Be more economical Impounded supply and demand and are more than offset higher gasprices
 
A cornerstone of the investment thesis on the stock of cars for years the existence of a large backlog. Fortunately, the latest monthly sales figures that are the drivers finally abandoned their trade for new vehicles – the shares of Ford Motor (NYSE: F) and General Motors (NYSE: GM), is more closer.
 
The slow pace of recovery is difficult and high unemployment, Americans continue their vehicles longer than ever before the lead. In fact, people cling to their cars and trucks for record lengths of time, according to data from market research firm RL Polk & Co. The average age of cars on the road now stands at more than 11 years. In 1995, this share was only 8.4 years.

 
It is therefore not surprising that industry-wide new vehicle sales have exceeded an annual turnover of 14 million dollars for two months in a row – and only reached the highest level in four years. Ford said February sales rose 14%, while GM a profit of 1.1%. Chrysler, now controlled by Italy’s Fiat reported a significant increase of 41%.
 
The results were equally more than offset the diversion of gas prices for non-American cars, such as aging fleets and fuel consumers. Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) saw sales increase by 12.4% in February. Nissan Motor (PINK: NSANY) said sales rose 15.5%, while Kia Motors gained 37.3%. Volkswagen (PINK: VLKAY) increased by 42.5%.
 
The Big Three sold an average of almost 17 million vehicles per year for ten years in the 2007th last year, vehicle sales in the U.S. fail to reach 13 million, but they are now back on the rise. RL Polk expects U.S. sales to recover from the recession of around 16 million by 2015.
 
Other models of low consumption suggested that acceleration of sales and strategic alliances that the actions of Ford and GM are still an attractive, even after its recent gains.
 
Despite the recent announcement by GM, the production of the Chevrolet Volt electricity demand will cease to supply to catch up. The company is on a roll. GM posted record earnings last month only two years after the taxpayers rescued. (GM 32% of the Treasury Department is one.)
 
Moreover, an amount of 7% in the Peugeot-Citroen, the type of European partnership that served so well in Chrysler. (Remember that most observers at Fiat took control of the car spotted in the U.S.).
 
And even after the recovery of 14% in the last three months, the assessment of GM still looks attractive. In 5.4, before the effect of the price-earnings (PE) with a reduction of 25% of its own long-term average, according to Thomson Reuters. GM PEG (price / earnings growth ratio), the rate, based on a population increase in its growth prospects, is trading 35% below their long-term average.
 
Meanwhile, objective analysts, the average price $ 34, so that the implied increase of 38% over the next 12 months or less.
 
Ford shares also trade in valuations in most cases, to negotiate, despite the addition of 9% over the last three months. The shares trade is at a discount of 26% on his own five-year average earnings before one-time and 73% at the end of physical education. PEG is only seemingly a bit expensive, shared strong trade at a premium with their own five-year average.
 
The analysts average price target is $ 16. Add in the dividend yield of 1.6% and increased to 33% implies.
 
Car manufacturers in the U.S. have undergone a remarkable transformation, and both Ford and GM have to go a long way. Historically, a sharp increase in gas prices, sales of new vehicles were affected. But, as David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff say, should help the backlog and economical fleet, some of the impact of rising gas prices at this time. If the sale can maintain its momentum, Ford and GM stock should continue to accelerate.