Over the period from 2012 to 2021, the one-year total return of the S&P 500 index's top performing stock ranged from 80% to 743%. This outstanding wealth enhancement dwarfs the average return of the index itself. But is there a way to spot stocks like this before they begin their meteoric rise?
In The Little Book of Picking Top Stocks, Martin S. Fridson delivers a practical and easy-to-follow guide to identifying ultra-high-return equities. The author identifies the quantitative and qualitative traits of stocks that rose to become the absolute strongest performers in the S&P 500.
In the book, you'll learn why conventional equity research provides limited help in zeroing in on the index's future top issues. You'll also discover important insights into stock selection and the risks it involves, as well as strategies that have actually worked to generate extraordinary profits via stock picking.
The Little Book of Picking Top Stocks helps investors understand an equities market that has become increasingly disconnected from traditional measures of value and growth. It focuses on choosing those securities that have the greatest potential for appreciation over a comparatively short horizon.
'The market never ceases to befuddle and beguile. These twovenerable works are fixtures on the short lists for most valuablebooks on the securities markets, and investors continue to cherishthem.' -From the Introduction by Martin S. Fridson ManagingDirector, Merrill Lynch & Co. Author of InvestmentIllusions Exploring the sometimes hilarious, sometimes devastating impact ofcrowd behavior and trading trickery on the financial markets, thisbook brilliantly combines two all-time investment classics.Extraordinary Popular Delusions and Confusion de Confusionestake us from Tulipmania in 1634-when tulips actually traded at ahigher price than gold-to the South Sea 'bubble' of 1720, andbeyond. Securities analyst and author Martin Fridson guides you ona quirky, entertaining, and intriguing journey back throughtime. Chosen by the Financial Times as Two of the Ten Best Books EverWritten on Investment Critical Praise . . . 'This is the most important book ever written about crowdpsychology and, by extension, about financial markets. A seriousstudent of the markets and even anyone interested in the extremesof human behavior should read this book!' -Ron Insana, CNBC 'In combining 'Extraordinary' with 'Confusion,' the result is notextraordinary confusion. Instead, with clarity, the book sears intomodern investor minds the dangers of following the crowd.' -GregHeberlein, The Seattle Times 'You will see between its staid lines (written in ye olde Englishand as ponderable as Buddha's navel) that, despite what the mediasays, nothing really important has changed in the financial marketsin centuries.' -Kenneth L. Fisher, Forbes
How to Be a Billionaire is the first comprehensive picture of the real strategies and tactics that built the great business fortunes of modern times. Packed with engaging accounts of titans like Ross Perot, Richard Branson, and Phil Anschutz, it will show you principles that can increase your wealth and business acumen to the mogul level.
Martin Fridson looks at the careers, the methods, and the minds of self-made billionaires to distill the common keys to titanic accumulation of wealth. He identifies the methods, beliefs, and behaviors every businessperson must understand and emulate to reach the pinnacle of riches. How to Be a Billionaire is a manual for success that every aspiring tycoon will benefit from.
