Introducing the dataset

Introduction to Python for Finance

Adina Howe

Instructor

Overall Review

Standard and Poor's S&P 100:

Sectors of Companies within the S&P 100 in 2017

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$$ \text{Price to earning ratio} = \frac{\text{Market price}}{\text{Earnings per share}} $$

The ratio for valuing a company that measures its current share price relative to its per-share earnings
In general, higher P/E ratio indicates higher growth expectations

Lists of data describing the S&P 100: names, prices, earnings, sectors

Explore and analyze the S&P 100 data, specifically the P/E ratios of S&P 100 companies

In [1]:  my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

# first element
In [2]: print(my_list[0])

# last element
In [3]: print(my_list[-1])

# range of elements
In [4]: print(my_list[0:3])

[1, 2, 3]

# Convert lists to arrays
import numpy as np
my_array = np.array(my_list)

# Elementwise array operations
array_ratio = array1 / array2

Introduction to Python for Finance