sp500: Financial information for 50 S&P 500 companies
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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.

1	data(sp500)

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 12 variables.

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.

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

OpenIntro, openintro.org

data(sp500)
plot(sp500$ent_value, sp500$earn_before)

plot(sp500$ev_over_rev, sp500$forward_pe)

plot(sp500$ent_value, sp500$earn_before, log="xy")

plot(sp500$ev_over_rev, sp500$forward_pe, log="xy")