The Motley Fool Investment Guide: Third Edition
How the Fools Beat Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too
Published on 5. September 2017
304 pages
978-1-5011-5876-6 (ISBN)
Description
A completely revised and updated edition of an investing classic to help readers make sense of investing today, full of ?solid information and advice for individual investors? (The Washington Post).
Today, anyone can be an informed investor, and once you learn to tune out the hype and focus on meaningful factors, you can beat the Street. The Motley Fool Investment Guide, completely revised and updated with clear and witty explanations, deciphers all the current information?from evaluating individual stocks to creating a diverse investment portfolio?making investing more approachable for beginners.
David and Tom Gardner have accessible investing ideas for you, no matter how much time or money you have. This new edition of The Motley Fool Investment Guide is designed for today's investor, sophisticate and novice alike, with the latest information on:
-Finding high-growth stocks that will beat the market over the long term
-Identifying volatile young companies that traditional valuation measures may miss
-Using online sources to locate untapped wellsprings of vital information
The Motley Fool rose to fame in the 1990s, based on its early recommendations of stocks such as Amazon, PayPal, eBay, and Starbucks. Now this revised edition is tailored to help investors tackle today's market. "If you've been looking for a basic book on investing in the stock market, this is it...The Gardners help empower the amateur investor with tools and strategies to beat the pros" (Chicago Tribune).
Today, anyone can be an informed investor, and once you learn to tune out the hype and focus on meaningful factors, you can beat the Street. The Motley Fool Investment Guide, completely revised and updated with clear and witty explanations, deciphers all the current information?from evaluating individual stocks to creating a diverse investment portfolio?making investing more approachable for beginners.
David and Tom Gardner have accessible investing ideas for you, no matter how much time or money you have. This new edition of The Motley Fool Investment Guide is designed for today's investor, sophisticate and novice alike, with the latest information on:
-Finding high-growth stocks that will beat the market over the long term
-Identifying volatile young companies that traditional valuation measures may miss
-Using online sources to locate untapped wellsprings of vital information
The Motley Fool rose to fame in the 1990s, based on its early recommendations of stocks such as Amazon, PayPal, eBay, and Starbucks. Now this revised edition is tailored to help investors tackle today's market. "If you've been looking for a basic book on investing in the stock market, this is it...The Gardners help empower the amateur investor with tools and strategies to beat the pros" (Chicago Tribune).
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Tom Gardner learned from his father how to invest, and with his brother, David, started The Motley Fool in 1993 with a mission to educate, amuse, and enrich. Today, the Fool works to empower individual investors, reaching millions every month through its website, premium services, podcasts, radio show, newspaper column, and more. With David they have coauthored several books, including You Have More Than You Think, Rule Breakers, Rule Makers, and The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens.
David Gardner learned from his father how to invest, and with his brother, Tom, started The Motley Fool in 1993 with a mission to educate, amuse, and enrich. Today, the Fool works to empower individual investors, reaching millions every month through its website, premium services, podcasts, radio show, newspaper column, and more. With Tom they have coauthored several books, including You Have More Than You Think, Rule Breakers, Rule Makers, and The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens.
David Gardner learned from his father how to invest, and with his brother, Tom, started The Motley Fool in 1993 with a mission to educate, amuse, and enrich. Today, the Fool works to empower individual investors, reaching millions every month through its website, premium services, podcasts, radio show, newspaper column, and more. With Tom they have coauthored several books, including You Have More Than You Think, Rule Breakers, Rule Makers, and The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens.
Content
- Intro
- Part I. Who, What, Why, and How
- 1. "Fool"?
- 2. Foolishness
- 3. How to Be an Investor Today
- Part II. Mutual Funds: Love 'Em or Leave 'em?
- 4. Maybe You Should Just Buy Mutual Funds
- 5. Maybe You Should Avoid Mutual Funds
- 6. Passively Managed Investments
- Part III. Building A Foolish Investment Portfolio
- 7. Stepping Away from Index Funds
- 8. Out of Funds into Stocks
- 9. The Mind-set of the Successful Investor
- Part IV. Companies and Quality
- 10. Why Buy Blue Chips?
- 11. Why Small-Cap Stocks?
- 12. How Do You Find the Best Stocks?
- Part V. Tom's Take: An Everlasting Approach to Investing
- 13. Five Tenets to Everlasting Investing
- 14. Culture
- 15. Strategy
- 16. Financials
- 17. Safety
- 18. Valuation
- Part VI. David's Take: Breaking the Investing Rules
- 19. Shaping (Then Breaking) the Investing Game
- 20. 6 Signs of a Rule Breaker
- 21. Is Rule Breaker Investing Right for You?
- Part VII. Digging Into the Digits
- 22. Climbing Under the Hood to Find the Best Small-Cap Stocks
- 23. Making Sense of Income Statements
- 24. Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements
- Part VIII. Some Advanced Topics
- 25. The Road to Options
- 26. Shorting Stocks
- 27. Options
- Part IX. Putting It All Together
- 28. Why Invest?
- 29. Being Your Best Investing Self
- 30. A Foolish Farewell
- Appendix A: Stocks 101
- Appendix B: April Fools!
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index
- Copyright
