From the Back Cover Whether you are old or young, male or female, wealthy or average, How to Be a Value Investor can help you make sense of today's roller coaster stock market. Built on the rock-solid value investing tenets that have guided Warren Buffet and Benjamin Graham, this concise but comprehensive guide shows you how to build a sensible, low-risk portfolio--designed to build wealth in any market. Let Lisa Holton's step-by-step wealth-building blueprint provide you with: The Investor's Toolbox--basic strategies for uncovering stocks whose prices are beaten down--but whose growth prospects are tremendous!; examples of investment portfolios that are custom-tailored to fit your risk/return profile in every stage of your life and career; information-packed websites containing everything you need to know about value--investing and how to find the best value stocks today. The McGraw-Hill Mastering the market Series gives you practical, hands-on techniques so you can squeeze the most profit from today's volatile markets. Featuring user-friendly layouts and non-technical language, each book is designed to help you master--within hours!--one of today's most popular investing styles. Look for these companion volumes: How to Be a Growth Investor; How to Be a Small-Cap Investor; How to Be a Sector Investor. Read more About the Author Lisa Holton is a business writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Better Homes and Gardens Family Money, and Nation's Business. The former business editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, Holton covered personal finance and banking topics for the paper and created MoneyLife, the Sun-Times personal finance section. She is a national board member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). Read more
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A Good Read!
Lisa Holton describes the way value investors find bargain stocks. She looks at a variety of financial formulas that can help you unearth good deals. This is a useful primer for investors, since it offers clear explanations of financial ratios. The book includes plenty of specific examples of ways to apply formulas to a company's financial statements. She clearly describes the contents of SEC documents and offers helpful advice about when to sell a stock. We at getAbstract recommend this book for beginner to intermediate investors, for those unfamiliar with "value investing," and for those interested in basic portfolio planning. This book focuses on the United States stock market and may be less useful in other countries.
A**R
The Building Blocks of Value Investing
This is an excellent and informative guide to a underused but highly profitable strategy. Although the book's self description calls this strategy "contrarian" there is a clear difference between that and value investing. The strategy outlined in this book is certainly value.This aside, I found this book extremely helpful. The tools needed to build a winning portfolio are covered comprehensively and the author also gives readers a formula for calculating what expected growth should be. Highly recommended for anyone seeking an exciting and low risk investment strategy.
S**R
Outstanding Overview
A very good overview for someone seeking a discription of what a value investor looks for. From key finiancials to inventory turnover to when to buy a stock. Would recommend to anyone needing a refresher prior to going a little deeper into the value investing subject area.
K**S
Complete and Compact. A Smart Read.
I feel that the author explains value investing in a practical and non threatening way to the beginning and intermediate investor. In these times of Investing for Dummies manuals How to Be A Value Investor not only tells the reader how, but why.
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