The start of things

Charles Carnevale attended the University of Tampa in the 1970s, and while at UT, his economics professor presented a thesis that stated, “Earnings determine the market price of a publicly traded company in the long run.” This idea lodged itself in Chuck’s mind and became his life’s work.

Although F.A.S.T. Graphs™ started out exploiting the relationship between operating earnings and stock price, the tool has evolved over the years to include the ability to examine valuation utilizing numerous additional metrics. These include, but are not limited to, price to basic and diluted earnings, cash flow and free cash flow, price to sales, etc.

Additionally, FUN Graphs (Financial Underlying Numbers) were developed to empower F.A.S.T. Graphs’ users to examine important components of a company’s financial statement, to include the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement and important returns, such as return on equity, return on invested capital, net and gross operating margins, and much more. Today F.A.S.T. Graphs™ in conjunction with FUN Graphs empower users to research stocks deeper, faster and more efficiently than any comparable research tool.

The F.A.S.T. Graphs™ tool takes all the hours of manual graphing of business fundamentals and reduces it to seconds, giving the individual investor critical information in an instant.