How to Be a Value Investor

by Lisa Holton

Book Overview

HOW TO BE A VALUE INVESTOR guides you step-by-step through reliable, proven methods to assemble a low-risk portfolio designed to build wealth in any market. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070794014
• ISBN13: 9780070794016
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Complete and Compact. A Smart Read.

I feel that the author explains value investing in a practical and non threatening way to the beginning and intermediate investor. In these times of Investing for Dummies manuals How to Be A Value Investor not only tells the reader how, but why.

The Building Blocks of Value Investing

This is an excellent and informative guide to a underused but highly profitable strategy. Although the book's self description calls this strategy "contrarian" there is a clear difference between that and value investing. The strategy outlined in this book is certainly value. This aside, I found this book extremely helpful. The tools needed to build a winning portfolio are covered comprehensively and the author also gives readers a formula for calculating what expected growth should be. Highly recommended for anyone seeking an exciting and low risk investment strategy.

Outstanding Overview

A very good overview for someone seeking a discription of what a value investor looks for. From key finiancials to inventory turnover to when to buy a stock. Would recommend to anyone needing a refresher prior to going a little deeper into the value investing subject area.

A thoughtful book for today's rocketing stock market.

From the bare basics to tips for the self-made sophisticate, Holton captures both the art and science of contrarian investing in her book, "How to be a Value Investor", arming investors with the necessary tools and information they need to make informed investment decisions. Holton not only emphasizes the age-old values of value investing patience, due diligence and convictionÐbut also brings a contemporary angle to her approach, making a convincing case for value investing as a wise and lucrative choice in the 1990s.

Concise and full of insights in today's volatile market.

The most common advice given to both experienced and new investors is to "seek value." Here, at last is a book that tells how to do this.Extremely thorough and well organized, "How to be a Value Investor" is noteworthy for its clarity. Readers are taken on an interesting tour which defines value investing, tells how to seek values, gives pointers on fundamentals of balance sheets and income statements, and tackles the difficult question "when to sell." Many examples are given to reinforce the text. The historical perspective also is useful. I found most helpful the section on how the experts seek bargains. There is also information on online investing and a list of websites for value investors.The book is exceptionally timely now, when stock indices are at lofty levels and the challenge to select the right investments never has been greater.Concise and full of insights on succeeding in today¹s volatile markets, this should be indispensable reading for investors trying to improve portfolio performance. There are few volumes on this subject that could be called "page turners," but from my experience, the author hit a home run in this regard.