The intelligent investor : the classic text on value investing / by Benjamin Graham.

Author
Graham, Benjamin, 1894-1976 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : HarperBusiness, ©2005.
Description
xxvii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    • Presents Benjamin Graham's 1949 classic stock market primer that teaches and stresses the importance of long-term investment strategies, and includes twenty-first-century commentary by financial journalist Jason Zweig.
    • "Benjamin Graham's classic best seller on value investing has taught and inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. This reissue of the pure, unadulterated 1949 text by Graham offers the investing principles as he originally laid them out--principles that continue to stand more than half a century since the book was first published. Time and market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's basic strategies, and in today's volatile market, this is the most important book you will ever read on making the right decisions to protect your investments and make them a success."--Back cover.
    Notes
    Originally published: New York : Harper, 1949. Featuring a new foreword from John C. Bogle.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: What this book expects to accomplish
    • Part I: General approaches to investment. What the intelligent investor can accomplish ; The investor and stock-market fluctuations ; The investor and his advisers ; General portfolio policy : the defensive investor ; Portfolio policy for the aggressive investor : negative approach ; Portfolio policy for the enterprising investor : the positive side
    • Part II: Principles of security selection. United States savings bonds : a boon to investors ; Security analysis for the lay investor : general approach ; Stock selection for the defensive investor ; Stock selection for the enterprising investor : the appraisal method ; Detection of undervalued issues by security analysis : three examples ; The pattern of change in stock earnings and stock prices ; Group studies of earnings and price developments
    • Part III: The investor as business owner. Stockholders and managements ; A study of stockholder-management relations in two industries
    • Part IV: Conclusion. "Margin of safety" as the central concept of investment
    • Appendix: Buying and selling by "central value" method.
    ISBN
    • 0060752610 ((hardcover))
    • 9780060752613 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2005282229
    OCLC
    60248769
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