The Little Book of Picking Top Stocks

How to Spot Hidden Gems

Martin S. Fridson

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English

John Wiley & Sons Inc
03 May 2023

Finance & accounting; Finance; Investment & securities; Personal finance

Series: Little Books. Big Profits

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. But 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. And 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.”

By: Martin S. Fridson
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 183mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781394176618
ISBN 10: 1394176619
Series: Little Books. Big Profits
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 03 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxv Chapter One Forget About Conventional Analysis 1 Chapter Two These Are Their Stories 81 Chapter Three News Flash! There Are More Than 500 Stocks 131 Chapter Four Tip- Offs to Top Stocks 149 Chapter Five Begin Your Assault on the Summit! 189 Notes 197 Glossary 201 About the Author 213 Index 215

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.