Editing Fundamental analysis (section)

==Use by different portfolio styles==
Investors may also use fundamental analysis within different [[portfolio (finance)|portfolio]] [[Investment management|management]] [[investor profile|styles]].
*[[Buy and hold]] investors believe that latching on to good businesses allows the investor's asset to grow with the business. Fundamental analysis lets them find "good" companies, so they lower their risk and the probability of wipe-out.
*[[value investing|Value investors]] restrict their attention to under-valued companies, believing that "it's hard to fall out of a ditch".  The values they follow come from fundamental analysis.
*Managers may use fundamental analysis to correctly value "good" and "bad" companies. 
*Managers may also consider the economic cycle in determining whether conditions are "right" to buy fundamentally suitable companies.
*[[Contrarian investing|Contrarian investors]] hold that "in the short run, the market is a voting machine, not a weighing machine".<ref>{{cite book|last1 = Graham|first1 = Benjamin|last2 = Dodd|first2 = David|title = Security Analysis|publisher = [[McGraw-Hill]]|date = December 10, 2004|isbn = 978-0-07-144820-8}}</ref> Fundamental analysis allows an investor to make his or her own decision on value, while ignoring the opinions of the market.
*Managers may use fundamental analysis to determine future growth rates for buying high priced [[growth stock]]s.
*Managers may include fundamental factors along with technical factors in computer models ([[quantitative analysis (finance)|quantitative analysis]]).