Methods of Fundamental Analysis for Valuation of Equity included here serve as a quick reference for undergraduate courses on Stock Valuation and Chartered Financial Analyst Levels 1 and 2 Readings on Equity Valuation.
    Jerald E. Pinto (“Equity Asset Valuation (4th Edition)”, 2020, ISBN: 9781119628194).
    Chartered Financial Analyst Institute ("Chartered Financial Analyst Program Curriculum 2020 Level I Volumes 1-6. (Vol. 4, pp. 445-491)", 2019, ISBN: 9781119593577).
    Chartered Financial Analyst Institute ("Chartered Financial Analyst Program Curriculum 2020 Level II Volumes 1-6. (Vol. 4, pp. 197-447)", 2019, ISBN: 9781119593614).

The 'StockDistFit' package provides functions for fitting probability distributions to stock price data. The package uses maximum likelihood estimation to find the best-fitting distribution for a given stock. It also offers a function to fit several distributions to one or more assets and compare the distribution with the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and then pick the best distribution. References are as follows: Siew et al. (2008) <https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jappstat/37/1/37_1_1/_pdf/-char/ja> and Benth et al. (2008) <https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=MHNpDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Stochastic+modeling+of+commodity+prices+using+the+Variance+Gamma+(VG)+model.+&ots=YNIL2QmEYg&sig=XZtGU0lp4oqXHVyPZ-O8x5i7N3w&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false>.

Provides a mixture model for clustering individuals (or sampling groups) into stocks based on their genetic profile. Here, sampling groups are individuals that are sure to come from the same stock (e.g. breeding adults or larvae). The mixture (log-)likelihood is maximised using the EM-algorithm after finding good starting values via a K-means clustering of the genetic data. Details can be found in: Foster, S. D.; Feutry, P.; Grewe, P. M.; Berry, O.; Hui, F. K. C. & Davies (2020) <doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12920>.

Functions for analyzing stocks or other investments. Main features are loading and aligning historical data for ticker symbols, calculating performance metrics for individual funds or portfolios (e.g. annualized growth, maximum drawdown, Sharpe/Sortino ratio), and creating graphs. C++ code is used to improve processing speed where possible.