How to Be an Internet Stock Investor: Essential Guides to Today's Most Popular Investment Strategies [Paperback]

David Newton (Author)

Book Description

Series: McGraw-Hill Mastering the Market | Publication Date: May 30, 2000

Investors intrigued by Amazon.com. Yahoo!, . and similar tales of tenfold price jumps are eager to jump on the Internet stocks bandwagon. How to Be an Internet Stock Investor puts them in the driver's seat. This uniquely accessible title shows investors how to identify emerging Web-related industries, locate companies poised to become stars, and construct a portfolio that maximizes growth potential while minimizing risk.

Sample portfolios and examples of Internet stocks favored by fund managers reveal the facts and figures investors should look for -- and guard against! Loaded with techniques and helpful hints, this easy-to-understand guidebook will help all investors:

Isolate key Internet industry groups
-- Analyze the best prospects
-- Build a diversified, long-term Internet portfolio

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From the Back Cover

INTERNET STOCKS: More Than Just ".com" Stocks, Expectations for This Sector, and Proven Strategies to Construct a High-Tech, Risk-Balanced Portfolio

Wall Street has sent prices of Internet-related stocks to historically unprecedented levels, creating fortunes for savvy investors­­and the Web's growth has only just begun! How to Be an Internet Stock Investor shows you where to find the best prospects for twenty-first century wealth creation, then reveals new rules for assessing e-stock values, selection criteria to maximize profits, and a look at the "new" fundamentals for growth. Innovative, proven investment techniques and research strategies will help you:

Understand this still emerging industry, and learn about Web infrastructure, e-Tailing, computer networks, and Net support services firms Target the most promising IPOs, locking in extraordinary potential for long-term price appreciation Customize a long-term portfolio of Net Stocks, including fund managers' top picks­­and determine which firms are poised to become tomorrow's Internet leaders

THE MCGRAW-HILL MASTERING THE MARKET SERIES gives you practical, hands-on techniques so you can squeeze the most profit from today's volatile markets. Featuring user-friendly layouts and non-technical language, each book is designed to help you master­­within hours!­­one of today's most popular investing styles. Look for these companion volumes:

How to Be a Growth Investor

How to Be a Small-Cap Investor

How to Be a Sector Investor

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 1st edition (May 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071357718
• ISBN-13: 978-0071357715
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,292,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't be misguided by the Title, February 17, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Be an Internet Stock Investor: Essential Guides to Today's Most Popular Investment Strategies (Paperback)

I thought this book is on investing on stocks in the internet. It is not. It is mostly a theoritical book talking about "internet stocks". It was not even clear to me what he meant by the internet stocks. I am sorry to rate it as single star. I am returning this book because it does not serve my purpose.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Straight Dope, June 7, 2000

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Aaron Brown - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Be an Internet Stock Investor: Essential Guides to Today's Most Popular Investment Strategies (Paperback)

After a few spectacular boom-and-bust cycles it has become clear to most sensible observers that Internet stocks are real, and will be an essential part of the economy in the future, but also that many highly-touted stocks are terrible investments. The old accounting rules and valuation theories don't apply, but the new rules don't work any better. Companies founded and backed by people who were yesterday's success stories end up tomorrow's disasters. Other companies that break all the rules hit it big. Finally there is a book that offers every investor practical guidance on how to separate winners from losers. This isn't one of those play-it-safe books that tells you to look for companies so perfect you'll never find one; Professor Newton understands that you are buying Internet stocks to win big, and therefore have to take the chance of losing big. But this is also a book that takes risk seriously, and steers the reader away from the insubstantial stocks without sound business models. The book assumes nothing but some common sense, yet teaches an investment discipline that is every bit as professional as you will find anywhere on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley.

4.0 out of 5 stars A new type of stock requires new evaluation techniques, August 15, 2000

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James Lor "James Lor" (Montreal, CANADA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Be an Internet Stock Investor: Essential Guides to Today's Most Popular Investment Strategies (Paperback)

There is a new type of stock on the market, the Internet stock, which are unlike any other type of stock. You need new evaluation methods and analytical techniques to evaluate their potential and risk. In his book, the author gives you ideas on how to analyze Internet stocks.