The Intelligent Investor
Investing
Analyze stocks defensively
from The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
How to Apply This
- Opt for index funds.
These are very low cost and have been shown to improve well in the past. - Go through these seven criteria before buying an individual stock:
- Is the size of the enterprise adequate?
- Does it have a strong financial condition?
- Has the company had at least some common stock earnings in the past ten years?
- Does it have interrupted dividend payments for the past 20 years?
- Does it have a minimum increase of at least one-third in per-share earnings over the last ten years?
- Does it have a fair price/earnings ratio?
- Does it have a fair price-to-assets ratio?
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