Best-Practice EVA – The New Standard of Excellence in Value-Based Corporate Management and Fundamental Equity Research
Event Details
Best-Practice EVA represents the culmination of years of research and practical experience by one of the world's authorities on shareholder value. In this session, Bennett Stewart will explain the new advances that are making EVA into a far simpler and more effective tool for value-based corporate management, and how and why the new EVA metrics and methods are starting to take root in equity research and investment management. Attendees will be able to buy autographed copies of his new book, Best Practice EVA, for a discounted price of $20 on the spot.
Speaker Profiles
Bennett Stewart (Speaker) '76
Chief Executive Officer, EVA Dimensions
Bennett Stewart is an expert in shareholder value and corporate performance management, and author of Best-Practice EVA (John Wiley & Sons, March, 2013), and The Quest for Value (HarperBusiness, 1991). He is currently CEO of EVA Dimensions, a financial technology firm that provides software tools, data bases and training and support packages that help CFOs to test and automate Best-Practice EVA and investors to make better buy-sell decisions. A cum laude graduate of Princeton University with a degree in electrical engineering (1974), he also holds an MBA degree (1976) from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Morgan Stanley Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and is a director of ITC Holdings (NYSE:ITC), chairing its audit and finance committee, and was formerly chairman of the Alumni Advisory Council for Princeton's Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering. He can be reached at gbstewart@evadimensions.com
"This is the best-ever guide to using EVA – the most valuable and important corporate finance tool of the past 30 years."
--Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor at Large, Fortune
"We're implementing Best-Practice EVA with EVA Dimensions; I expect that the tools and metrics will become quite common in our vernacular at PepsiCo. The new EVA ratios are a helpful way to dissect EVA and help the organization focus on the opportunities."
—Hugh F. Johnston, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, PepsiCo
"Best-Practice EVA provides practical tools for my everyday world of equity analysis—particularly EVA Margin and EVA Momentum, two universally scalable metrics that provide insight into how CEO strategies and shifts in the competitive landscape change shareholder value.
—Joe Joseph, Portfolio Manager, Putnam Investments
Questions
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