The Top 100 International Growth Stocks: Your Guide to Creating a Blue Chip International Portfolio for Higher Returns and [Paperback]

Scott E. Kalb (Author), Peggy Eddersheim Kalb (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2, 1998

One Hundred New Ways to Make Your Money Work Harder

Countless foreign stocks routinely outperform the S&P 500, but sending your money halfway around the world can feel risky -- unless you know which stocks to invest in. How can you make informed decisions on the international market? How can you find the Microsoft of Germany or Wal-Mart of France? What stocks should you buy in emerging markets such as Asia and Latin America? The Top 100 International Growth Stocks highlights the best opportunities for creating a diversified portfolio of stable, quality investments. Here are:

• Detailed company profiles of 100 overseas performers
• Invaluable ?grading boxes? that rate growth, management quality, and risk factors
• Share-price performance charts
• Tips on how and when to purchase foreign stocks and track your investments

Scott and Peggy Kalb analyzed more than 10,000 companies before they arrived at their top 100. Their selections have survived and prospered despite recessions, political upheaval, difficult mergers, and tough competition -- because the focus here is on long-term, blue-chip investments.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Serious international investors able to choose their own stocks will find a useful reference in The Top 100 International Growth Stocks. Coauthor Peggy Edersheim Kalb is a financial journalist and former Smith Barney money manager. Scott E. Kalb manages the Smith Barney International Equity Fund. From a universe of 10,000 non-U.S. companies, the authors selected 100 relatively large ones (minimum market capitalization $500 million) that have long demonstrated "an exceptional ability to grow their businesses at superior rates in all kinds of conditions, climates, and political environments." The book offers a three-page report on each of the 100 companies, most of which trade on U.S. markets. Among the top 100 are many household names, from Heineken to Sony. But the list also includes dozens of companies that U.S. investors should know but probably don't, such as Cifra, Mexico's largest food retailer; Astra of Sweden, one of the world's largest drug companies; and Hutchison Whampoa, Hong Kong's preeminent conglomerate. Aside from providing investment leads, the book is a fascinating tour of companies that are shaping the world's economic future. --Barry Mitzman

From Booklist

Two categories of investments that appeal to those who have decided to diversify their holdings are growth stocks and international stocks. The Kalbs offer a two-in-one strategy for those so inclined to expand. She has written for SmartMoney and was a portfolio manager for Smith Barney International. He is a managing director at Salomon Smith Barney and a senior portfolio manager for the Smith Barney International Equity Fund. They analyzed more than 10,000 stocks to come up with their list of 100 companies that are capitalized at, at least $500 million and have experienced operating income and net income growths of at least 12 percent compounded over the past 10 years. They also looked at such factors as quality of management and risk. For each of the companies, a three-page description similar in format to a Standard & Poor's Stock Report is provided. Included is a synopsis of commentary that appears in a company's most recent annual report as well as tables that include 10 years of stock performance data. David Rouse

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (July 2, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684843390
• ISBN-13: 978-0684843391
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,189,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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