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How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett: Profiting from the Bargain Hunting Strategies of the World's Greatest Value Investor [Hardcover]

Timothy Vick (Author)
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August 23, 2000

A $10,000 investment in Warren Buffett's original 1956 portfolio would today be worth a staggering $250 million ... after taxes! What are his investing secrets? How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett contains the answers and shows, step-by-profitable-step, how any investor can follow Buffett's path to consistently find bargains in all markets: up, down, or sideways.

How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett sticks to the basics: how Buffett continually finds bargain stocks passed over by others. Written by an actual financial analyst who uses Buffett's strategies professionally, this tactical how-to book includes:

  • Comprehensive financial tools and information
  • Strategy-packed "Buffett in action" boxes
  • Buffett's own stock portfolio­­continually updated on the author's website!


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From the Back Cover

Learn How Warren Buffett Consistently Beats Wall Street to the Best Stocks­­and What He Plans Next

Warren Buffett is the only billionaire in history to amass his fortune entirely through shrewd investing. And while many books have chronicled Buffett's story, none have examined his legendary value investing techniques­­where he looks, what he looks for, and what signals tell him it's time to buy.

How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett shows, step by profitable step, how any investor can follow Buffett's path and find consistent bargains regardless of the overall market. Value investing practitioner and chronicler Timothy Vick packs the book with:

Comprehensive value investing tools and information

Methods for appraising today¿s popular technology stocks

Insights on how Buffett assesses risk and potential reward

Praise for How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett

"This is a must read for anyone wanting to learn the investing techniques of Warren Buffett."­­Mary Buffett, Author, Buffettology

"I have seen no trend toward value investing in the 35 years I've practiced it. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."
--Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is widely considered history¿s greatest investor. This fascinating man­­humorous and homespun on the outside, serious and ready for battle on the inside­­would have the world believe his success was as simple as adding 2 + 2. But the truth is entirely different. As How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett reveals, Buffett has a clear and consistent set of investment rules and methods that have brought him and his investors unparalleled good fortune. These tools­­including which performance numbers Buffett considers most critical, strategies he employs to take advantage of consistently irrational markets, management attitudes that make him look favorably on a situation, and more­­are, for the first time, analyzed with the attention to detail investors require.

The resulting book is nothing less than a step-by-step rulebook for emulating Buffett's startling investment successes.

"What doesn't work is when you start doing things you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up."

Far from a scratch-the-surface biography filled with interesting but extraneous biographic material, How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett takes you straight to the core of Buffett's investing genius. Timothy Vick tells you how Buffett did it, how he continues to do it, and how you can follow Buffett's lead to build an impressive portfolio of your own.

Nowhere else will you find this depth and breadth of Buffett's keen market insights:

  • Three strategies for gaining market-beating results without assuming excessive risks
  • Techniques for estimating a company¿s future earnings­­one of the fundamental bases of intrinsic value
  • Why per-share book value growth remains Buffett's favorite yardstick of a company's investment potential
  • How Buffett seeks to avoid losses through convertibles, options, and his secret weapon­­arbitrage

Warren Buffett has left a clearer, more profitable set of tracks to follow than any other great investor. Discover how to uncover, interpret, and follow those tracks­­for consistently high rates of return and a portfolio of solid, predictable, and long-term profitable stocks and investments­­in How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett.

About the Author

Timothy Vick is the senior analyst with Arbor Capital Management, which has offices in Anchorage, Jacksonville, and the Chicago area. The founder and former editor in chief of the nationally distributed market newsletter Today's Value Investor and author of Wall Street On Sale, Vick also serves as a consultant to small businesses on valuation and strategic planning. He has appeared on CNBC and CNN, and has been quoted by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily, and other national publications.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 277 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (August 23, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071357696
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071357692
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?, November 19, 2000
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This review is from: How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett: Profiting from the Bargain Hunting Strategies of the World's Greatest Value Investor (Hardcover)
Legendary billionaire Warren Buffett is considered by many to be the world's greatest value investor. "How To Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett" is a book that guides the ordinary investor though Buffett's methods to profit using his bargain hunting strategies.

As Buffett is quoted as saying in the book, "To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these. That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects. In our view, though, investment students need only two well taught courses - How to Value a Business, and How to Think About Market Prices."

"How To Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett" does detail effectively, in easy-to-understand language, Buffett's methodology in analyzing and evaluating businesses and attitudes about market prices, as well as the investment decision-making process, and philosophy about developing good investment habits.

Buffett's rules and methods for investment success are carefully outlined, including the importance of developing a mathematical mind, using a buy-and-hold strategy for companies with strong franchises, growing book value and return on equity, using the magic "15 Percent Rule", comparing stocks to bonds, avoiding losses, and stringing small gains together with takeovers.

"How To Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett" contains charts and case studies with pertinent and contemporary examples, including studies of technology companies. A chapter, "Your Competitive Advantage Over Buffett - The Internet", details several web sites that provide information, research and investment tools for value-oriented investors.

This book is relevant for value conscious investors who wish to formulate an intelligent and consistent approach to investment management.

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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Great Ideas; Terrible proofreading, October 3, 2000
This review is from: How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett: Profiting from the Bargain Hunting Strategies of the World's Greatest Value Investor (Hardcover)
I really liked Timothy Vick's "Wall Street on Sale" and bought the current title sight unseen. There's been a lot written about Buffett's investing style and valuation philosophy. This book gives an overview of the basics. I really liked the section on Buffett's use of risk arbitrage because it has traditionally received short shrift in previous books. My problem with this book is that someone must be asleep at the proofreading wheel at McGraw-Hill. Don't they use a spell or grammar check? These tools don't cost much and they would seem to be essential to a publishing house. As an example I offer this transcript of the first sentence of the last paragraph on page 42. "If anything, the data suggest that companies are doing were performing or worse than could normally be expected nine years into an economic expansion." That's just one blatant example. There are mispellings too. This is a problem because it calls into question, rightly or wrongly, Mr. Vick's research. If there are problems with the text, could there be problems with the numerical tables? This could easily have been a five star book, but I'm stretching my charitable inclinations when I give it three.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!, September 6, 2001
This review is from: How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett: Profiting from the Bargain Hunting Strategies of the World's Greatest Value Investor (Hardcover)
Timothy Vick is a fairly well known advocate for value investing, but in his latest book, he rolls out the mother-of-all value investors as a champion. In using Warren Buffett as the basis for his easily digestible lessons on value investing - the simple strategy of investing in companies that are currently undervalued by the market - Vick proves that the concept of an engaging investment book is not an oxymoron. By holding up the Buffett example, Vick illustrates the greatest axiom of value investing: Over time, the price of any asset will find its intrinsic value. Buffett clung to this mantra throughout the `90s, missing out on some of the biggest market returns in history. We [...] strongly recommend this book for its clear explanation of how Buffett analyzed the New Economy market and how you can mimic him going forward. Because in the end, he was right and they were wrong.
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