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Fifty companies were randomly sampled from the 500 companies in the S&P 500, and their financial information was collected on March 8, 2012.

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• market_cap - Total value of all company shares, in millions of dollars.

• stock - The name of the stock (e.g. AAPL for Apple).

• ent_value - Enterprise value, which is an alternative to market cap that also accounts for things like cash and debt, in millions of dollars.

• trail_pe - The market cap divided by the earnings (profits) over the last year.

• forward_pe - The market cap divided by the forecasted earnings (profits) over the next year.

• ev_over_rev - Enterprise value divided by the company's revenue.

• profit_margin - Percent of earnings that are profits.

• revenue - Revenue, in millions of dollars.

• growth - Quartly revenue growth (year over year), in millions of dollars.

• earn_before - Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, in millions of dollars.

• cash - Total cash, in millions of dollars.

• debt - Total debt, in millions of dollars.

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Yahoo! Finance, http://finance.yahoo.com, collected March 8, 2012.

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