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The Little Book of Picking Top Stocks

How to Spot Hidden Gems
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The Little Book of Picking Top Stocks by Martin S. Fridson provides readers with insights into selecting high-performing stocks. It offers practical advice and techniques designed for both novice and seasoned investors, aiming to enhance decision-making skills in the stock market. The book emphasizes a strategic approach to investing, focusing on financial analysis and market trends.
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How well does it pay to own the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s best-performing stock of the year? Over the 2012-2021 period, the one-year total return ranged from 80% to 743%. This book identifies the quantitative and qualitative traits of stocks that made it to #1 and tells the stories of how they got there. A key indicator, the Fridson-Lee Statistic, makes its debut in these pages.

Aiming for the massive upside of the #1 stocks entails substantial risk. It’s not something to do with more than a small percentage of your portfolio. However, attempting to pick the coming year’s top performer can provide an outlet for speculative impulses that might otherwise spoil a prudent, long-term investment plan. By investigating the statistically determined best candidates for #1, you’ll gain important insights into stock selection.

The Little Book of Picking Top Stocks explains why conventional equity research provides only limited help in zeroing in on the index’s future top performer. Spotting the #1 stock isn’t Wall Street analysts’ focus, although the information they furnish about companies’ competitive strategies is quite helpful. Problematically, investment banks’ fundamental stock reports are structured around a valuation metric that was discredited nearly half a century ago—earnings per share.

Author Martin Fridson’s previous writings on the stock market include the books It Was a Very Good Year and Investment Illusions, as well as articles such as “Ben Graham’s Value Approach: Can It Still Work?” He has received the CFA Society of New York’s Ben Graham Award and has been named the Financial Management Association International’s Financial Executive of the Year. The Green Magazine called his Financial Statement Analysis (co-authored with Fernando Alvarez) “one of the most useful investment books ever.”

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781394176618

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 183.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 256

About the Author

MARTIN S. FRIDSON is Chief Investment Officer at Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors, an investment management firm built on fundamental security analysis. He is co-author of Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner’s Guide and a recipient of the CFA Society New York’s Ben Graham Award.

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