Description
Book SynopsisDevelop a Winning Investment Strategy-with Expert Advice from The Nation''s #1 Money Manager. Peter Lynch''s invest in what you know strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small.
An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There''s a company behind every stock and a reason companies-and their stocks-perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research.
In Beating the Street,Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts.
There''s no reason the individual investor can''t match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.
Table of ContentsCONTENTSPreface
Preface to the Trade Paperback Edition
Introduction: Escape from Bondage
One: The Miracle of St. Agnes
Two: The Weekend Worrier
Three: A Tour of the Fund House
Four: Managing Magellan: The Early Years
Five: Magellan: The Middle Years
Six: Magellan: The Later Years
Seven: Art, Science, and Legwork
Eight: Shopping for Stocks: The Retail Sector
Nine: Prospecting in Bad News: How the "Collapse" in Real Estate Led Me to Pier 1, Sunbelt Nursery, and General Host
Ten: My Close Shave at Supercuts
Eleven: Blossoms in the Desert: Great Companies in Lousy Industries
Twelve: It's a Wonderful Buy
Thirteen: A Closer Look at the S&Ls
Fourteen: Master Limited Partnerships: A Deal with a Yield
Fifteen: The Cyclicals: What Goes Around Comes Around
Sixteen: Nukes in Distress: CMS Energy
Seventeen: Uncle Sam'a Garage Sale: Allied Capital II
Eighteen: My Fannie Mae Diary
Nineteen: Treasure in the Backyard: The Colonial Group of Mutual Funds
Twenty: The Restaurant Stocks: Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Twenty-One: The Six-Month Checkup
25 Golden Rules
Postscript
Index
