The Investor's Guidebook to Equities is a concise, yet comprehensive, handbook to understanding equity investments. This authoritative guide provides all the information that both the professional and individual investor will need to succeed in today’s equity market. It discusses the role that equities play in a company's capital structure and in a portfolio. It also features the top ten equity strategies and alternative ways to obtain equity exposures. The Investor's Guidebook to Equities also helps readers in determining and optimizing a company's weighted average cost of capital and introduces the role of preferred stock within a company's capital structure.