The Conscious Investor: Profiting from the Timeless Value Approach -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What Is This Book About? -- Who Is This Book For? -- Chapter 1: What Is Intrinsic Value? -- Intrinsic Value -- Types of Intrinsic Value -- Chapter 2: Price Is What You Pay . . . -- From the Buttonwood Agreement to Mr. Market -- Charting and Technical Analysis -- Efficient Market Hypothesis -- Chapter 3: . . . Value Is What You Get -- Value and Stock Market Transactions -- Behavioral Biases -- The Selling Dilemma -- Chapter 4: Follow the Money -- A Basic Understanding of Accounting -- Balance Sheet -- Income Statement -- Statement of Cash Flows -- Equity Statement -- Chapter 5: Everything Is Number and Ratio -- Ratios Galore -- Management Performance Ratios -- Debt or Leverage Ratios -- Liquidity Ratios -- Return on Equity -- Price Ratios with Earnings and Dividends -- Ratios and Share Buybacks -- Chapter 6: Measuring Value by Taking Snapshots -- Book Value -- Liquidation Value -- Net Current Asset Value -- Other Balance Sheet Methods -- Replacement Value and Tobin's q-Theory -- Chapter 7: A Bird in the Hand -- Discounted Cash Flow -- Assumptions Required for DCF Methods -- DCF Methods and Value Ratios -- Three Bears' Valuation -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Discounted Cash Flow Methods -- One Final Comment -- Chapter 8: The Joy of Dividends -- Dividends and Dividend Ratios -- Dividend Discount Methods -- Dividend Discount Method via Return on Equity -- Dividend Discount Valuation via Residual Income Estimates -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Dividend Discount Methods -- Chapter 9: Don't Get Mad, Get Even -- Simple Calculation of the Payback Period -- Two-Stage Payback Calculations -- Payback Calculations Using Dividends and Return on Equity -- Strengths and Weaknesses of the Payback Period Method -- Chapter 10: PEG and Friends.

PEG Ratio -- PEGY Ratio -- Expectations Risk Index -- Chapter 11: What Rate of Return Can I Expect? -- Expected Return or Price Ratio Methods -- Making Forecasts -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Expected Return or Price Ratio Methods -- Chapter 12: Please, Sir, I Want Some More -- Graham's Intrinsic Value Formulas -- Abnormal Earnings Growth Method -- Assets, Earnings Power, and Profitable Growth Methods -- Benchmark Valuation Method -- Magic Formula, CAN SLIM, and other Filtering Methods -- Option-Pricing Methods of Valuation -- Chapter 13: Forecasting and the Three Most Important Words in Investing -- Analysis of Growth Rates -- Engineering and Margins of Safety -- Margins of Safety for Earnings Growth Rates -- Margins of Safety for P/E Ratios and Payout Ratios -- Chapter 14: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Free Access to Key Functions -- Being a Conscious Investor -- Appendix A: Relationship between Return on Equity and Growth of Earnings -- Appendix B: Calculations for Discount Methods -- Single-Stage Model -- Two-Stage Model -- Notes -- Glossary -- About the Author -- Disclaimer -- Index.