Hidden opportunities: how to find great stocks that the analysts aren’t covering. Many years ago, Sir John Templeton offered some straightforward words on investing: “If you find one dozen analysts who all advise to purchase the same stock, you can be sure that the stock will not be a good purchase.” His point, of course, is that popular stocks often represent poor investments since their prospects have already been well recognized....
Is this the right time to buy? What are the signs of a market top and bottom? Should I buy a down-beaten or a high-flying stock? Should I buy a low P/E ratio or a high-dividend stock? Whether you’re a complete novice or an experienced investor, the answers to these and many other questions are found in this book. It covers probably the widest range of topics of any investment book to help you to navigate the stock market. Based on practical experiences, tested theories, and proven wisdoms, it is also a reference book, which you can repeatedly refer to, and an action book with a game plan and even a “free lunch.”Stock investing is simple, but it’s not easy. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist or work extremely hard; all you need is common sense, the right temperament, spare money, and spare time. Your challenge is to choose the right companies and funds—the fund managers and company employees will do all the hard work, making you money so that you can plan your dream holidays and a blissful retirement.
Hidden opportunities: how to find great stocks that the analysts aren't covering. Many years ago, Sir John Templeton offered some straightforward words on investing: "If you find one dozen analysts who all advise to purchase the same stock, you can be sure that the stock will not be a good purchase." His point, of course, is that popular stocks often represent poor investments since their prospects have already been well recognized ...
Using Investor's Business Daily as his major source of investment information, Dhun Sethna tripled his portfolio in five years. In Investing Smart, Sethna shares what he's learned about picking stocks with the nation's fastest growing newspaper, unlocking the powerful money=making information in every edition. You'll discover where to look for winning stocks every day. . .which indicators to watch to avoid losses. . .the psychology of market behavior. . .and much more. The book delivers straightforward explanations of the complex and powerful forces which drive stock prices. All in all, it gives you the tools you need to invest wisely.
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERY INVESTOR SHOULD OWN Peter Lynch is America's number-one money manager. His mantra: Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research. Now, in a new introduction written specifically for this edition of One Up on Wall Street, Lynch gives his take on the incredible rise of Internet stocks, as well as a list of twenty winning companies of high-tech '90s. That many of these winners are low-tech supports his thesis that amateur investors can continue to reap exceptional rewards from mundane, easy-to-understand companies they encounter in their daily lives. Investment opportunities abound for the layperson, Lynch says. By simply observing business developments and taking notice of your immediate world -- from the mall to the workplace -- you can discover potentially successful companies before professional analysts do. This jump on the experts is what produces "tenbaggers," the stocks that appreciate tenfold or more and turn an average stock portfolio into a star performer. The former star manager of Fidelity's multibillion-dollar Magellan Fund, Lynch reveals how he achieved his spectacular record. Writing with John Rothchild, Lynch offers easy-to-follow directions for sorting out the long shots from the no shots by reviewing a company's financial statements and by identifying which numbers really count. He explains how to stalk tenbaggers and lays out the guidelines for investing in cyclical, turnaround, and fast-growing companies. Lynch promises that if you ignore the ups and downs of the market and the endless speculation about interest rates, in the long term (anywhere from five to fifteen years) your portfolio will reward you. This advice has proved to be timeless and has made One Up on Wall Street a number-one bestseller. And now this classic is as valuable in the new millennium as ever.
One of the world's leading investment researchers runs the numbers on some of today's most widely touted strategies, objectively answering the questions brokers cannot answer and presents exactly what works and what doesn't.
The aim of value investing is to identify stocks that are undervalued and which can be expected to produce an above average return in the future. And the message from the history of investing is clear: if you successfully pursue a value investing strategy over the long term, you will earn an above average return on your portfolio. The goal of The New Value Investing is to help you identify undervalued stocks and teach you how to build your own successful value investing portfolio. Added to this, it is important to understand that value investing is inextricably linked with behavioral finance, and research advances in this area in recent years strengthen the case for value investing. The author explains how stock prices are determined by emotional crowds, how this leads to mispriced stocks and opportunities for the value investor, and how you can harness the insights of behavioral finance to improve your value investing approach. As you work through this book, the author shows how to follow the path from analysis of the economy, to the industry, to company financial statements, to creating a value range for a company’s stock. You will learn: -- How to remove emotion from your investment process. -- The essential elements of portfolio construction. -- What a value investor should observe in the wider economy and the market. -- Where to find investment ideas. -- How to read a company’s financial statements from a value investing perspective. -- Dividend valuation, earnings valuation and other valuation techniques. -- How to undertake a full valuation analysis, with two complete worked examples of stock valuation for real-life companies. -- What professional value investors at investment funds analyse and how they make their decisions. Value investing is within everyone’s reach, so why doesn’t everyone use it? The key is patience. The approach works over the long term if you stick with it and the result could be extra hundreds, thousands or millions in your portfolio at the end of your investment horizon.
Small is beautiful - if you have an eye for an opportunity. While most big fund managers and private investors seek the apparent safety of the largest stocks, the best investment ideas can be found among nearly 2,000 smaller companies whose shares are quoted on the London Stock Exchange. This guide opens up a whole new world to investors, a world of solid companies that have found a profitable niche, ambitious start-ups with enormous growth potential and attractive takeover targets. However, the risks match the rewards and the unwary investors need to learn how to spot the pitfalls and which companies are small because they do not deserve to grow. The book is packed full of case studies demonstrating the successes, failures and potential of small companies. Each succinctly presents the lessons to be learnt from their experience. All investors looking to widen their portfolios will welcome this highly informative book covering an area of the stock market that is too often neglected by pundits, investors and the press.
