One Up On Wall Street [Hardcover]

Peter Lynch (Author), John Rothchild (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1989

In easy-to-follow terminology, Lynch offers directions for sorting out the long shots from the no shots by spending just a few minutes with a company's financial statements. His advice for producing "tenbaggers" can turn a stock portfolio into a star performer!

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Writing with Rothchild ( A Fool and His Money ), Lynch, director of the Fidelity Magellan Fund, the nation's largest equity fund ($9 billion in assets), argues that average investors can beat Wall Street professionals by using the information that they encounter in their everyday lives. For example, Lynch invested in Hanes after his wife told him about the popularity of L'eggs pantyhose. Other winning stocks that average investors could have picked well before Wall Street became aware of them include LaQuinta motels, the Limited clothing store chain and Agency Rent-A-Car, note the authors. They advise readers to look for spectacular growth among companies that sound dull; do something disagreeable; are spinoffs; are buying back theor own stock. They caution readers to avoid companies touted as the next IBM or Xerox; that are diversifying ("diworseifying"); that depend on a single customer. The book is also a primer on how the stock market works and is written in a light, entertaining style. Investors will be able to put the shrewd insights presented to good use. Author tour.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 318 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition (1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671661035
• ISBN-13: 978-0671661038
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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134 of 155 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great beginners' investment advice, April 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: One up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market (Paperback)

We really do know more than we think about investing. This book shows you how to apply your knowledge to make good investments.

But, like many people, I didn't have spare money to make investments with.

So I also recommend the book, SIMPLE MONEY SOLUTIONS, because it showed me and my kids how to "free up cash" every month without feeling deprived.

I highly recommend both books!

39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IF ONLY WE COULD FOLLOW HIS ADVICE, January 27, 2000

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Ahmed Bahey Alashram (Cairo Egypt) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market (Paperback)

This is the sixth book I have read on investment in one year. Along with "A random walk down wall street" by Burton Malkiel it has bee the best and most informative. For a while I do not think I will read any investment books before I make sure I can follow Mr. lynch's SIMPLE AND PROFITABLE advice. His classification of stocks are great and his timing for buying and selling each of these classfication are also great (fast growers, slow growers, turnarounds, asset plays, cyclicals). His chapter "stocks I would avoid" is full of sincere warnings of foolish mistakes we make over and over. Add to this the introductory chapters where he explains why we should invest in what we already know makes this book a must read. It is amazing how many opportunities we all miss on stocks that are right in front of us, yet we ignore them and waste our time finding the hottest stocks when mostly these stocks are overly priced. Let me tell you about a small example of what I am talking about. I use Yahoo finance alot in my research almost on daily basis, but I never thought of knowing the company that provides it with all this wonderful information. And while once scrolling down the Yahoo page I read that Tibco Software provides it with the quote technology. (I remembered Lynch when he says that we spend most of our time trying to find the great stock when the great stock has been striving to find us). I rushed to check the stock out. Too bad it has already increased more than tenfold in a month time. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU WITH YOUR NEXT TEN BAGGERS.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The *MOST* SENSIBLE and FUN investment book you'll ever read, January 21, 2000

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Dave Lim (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market (Paperback)

Forget about those "Here-are-my-Wall-Street-secrets- that-will-make-you-a-millionaire" books. Peter Lynch takes all the "non" out of the "nonsense" about investing in stocks. For whoever you are, you're an expert in your field and you can beat Wall Street fund managers by following two simple Peter Lynch rules: "Invest in what you understand" and "Invest in companies you like". Not only will this be MOST SENSIBLE and USEFUL investment book you'll ever own, it'll also be the MOST FUN investment book you'll ever read. BUY THIS BOOK!