An Empirical Examination Of The Usefulness Of The Motley Fools Flow Ratio

An item in the Motley Fool recently caught our attention. The article Cisco vs. Lucent: The Flow Ratio Tells All (by Matt Richey, June 6, 2000, in The Motley Fool.fool.com), introduced a new ratio that Richey claimed to be useful for measuring the investment worthiness of a company. Since our Financ...

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Published inThe international business & economics research journal Vol. 2; no. 8
Main Authors Giacomino, Don E., Akers, Michael D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 25.02.2011
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Summary:An item in the Motley Fool recently caught our attention. The article Cisco vs. Lucent: The Flow Ratio Tells All (by Matt Richey, June 6, 2000, in The Motley Fool.fool.com), introduced a new ratio that Richey claimed to be useful for measuring the investment worthiness of a company. Since our Financial Statement Analysis course covers traditional ratio analysis and since we were exploring some research ideas on measuring liquidity, the Fool Ratio seemed worthy of investigation.
ISSN:1535-0754
2157-9393
DOI:10.19030/iber.v2i8.3832