One Up On Wall Street

More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to achieve financial success.

America’s most successful money manager tells how average investors can beat the pros by using what they know. According to Lynch, investment opportunities are everywhere. From the supermarket to the workplace, we encounter products and services all day long. By paying attention to the best ones, we can find companies in which to invest before the professional analysts discover them. When investors get in early, they can find the “tenbaggers,” the stocks that appreciate tenfold from the initial investment. A few tenbaggers will turn an average stock portfolio into a star performer.

Lynch offers easy-to-follow advice for sorting out the long shots from the no-shots by reviewing a company’s financial statements and knowing which numbers really count. He offers guidelines for investing in cyclical, turnaround, and fast-growing companies.

As long as you invest for the long term, Lynch says, your portfolio can reward you. This timeless advice has made One Up on Wall Street a #1 bestseller and a classic book of investment know-how.

Contents

Introduction to the Millennium Edition

PROLOGUE: A Note from Ireland

INTRODUCTION: The Advantages of Dumb Money

PART I Preparing to Invest

1 The Making of a Stockpicker

2 The Wall Street Oxymorons

3 Is This Gambling, or What?

4 Passing the Mirror Test

5 Is This a Good Market? Please Don't Ask

PART II Picking Winners

6 Stalking the Tenbagger

7 I've Got It, I've Got It -- What Is It?

8 The Perfect Stock, What a Deal!

9 Stocks I'd Avoid

10 Earnings, Earnings, Earnings

11 The Two-Minute Drill

12 Getting the Facts

13 Some Famous Numbers

14 Rechecking the Story

15 The Final Checklist

PART III The Long-term View

16 Designing a Portfolio

17 The Best Time to Buy and Sell

18 The Twelve Silliest (and Most Dangerous) Things People Say About Stock Prices

19 Options, Futures, and Shorts

20 50,000 Frenchmen Can Be Wrong

EPILOGUE: Caught with My Pants Up

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX