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Description of Beating the Street

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, newly revised and updated for the paperback edition, 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. There' s no reason the individual investor can't match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.

In Beating The Street Lynch for the first time:

- Explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy

- Shows how he goes about picking stocks, step-by-step

- Describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts of the investment clubs

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Title Information

ISBN:

9780671891633

Pages:

332 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

0058

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Published:

01/01/1970

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Contents of Beating the Street

Preface

Introduction: Escape from Bondage

1. The Miracle of St. Agnes

2. The Weekend Worrier

3. A Tour of the Fund House

4. Managing Magellan: The Early Years

5. Magellan: The Middle Years

6. Magellan: The Later Years

7. Art, Science and Legwork

8. Shopping for Stocks: The Retail Sector

9. Prospecting in Bad News: How the 'Collapse' in Real Estate Led Me to Pier 1, Sunbelt Nursery, and General Host

10. My Close Shave at Supercuts

11. Blossoms in the Desert: Great Companies in Lousy Industries

12. It's a Wonderful Buy

13. A Closer Look at the S&Ls

14. Master Limited Partnership: A Deal with a Yield

15. The Cyclicals: What Goes Around Comes Around

16. Nukes in Distress: CMS Energy

17. Uncle Sam's Garage Sale: Allied Capital II

18. My Fannie Mae Diary

19. Treasure in the Backyard: The Colonial Group of Mutual Funds

20. The Restaurant Stocks: Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

21. The Six-Month Checkup

Twenty-Five Golden Rules

Index