How To Be a Value Investor

Lisa Holton describes the way value investors find bargain stocks. She looks at a variety of financial formulas that can help you unearth good deals. This is a useful primer for investors, since it offers clear explanations of financial ratios. The book includes plenty of specific examples of ways to apply formulas to a company's financial statements. She clearly describes the contents of SEC documents and offers helpful advice about when to sell a stock. We at getAbstract recommend this book for beginner to intermediate investors, for those unfamiliar with "value investing," and for those interested in basic portfolio planning. This book focuses on the United States stock market and may be less useful in other countries.

This is an excellent and informative guide to a underused but highly profitable strategy. Although the book's self description calls this strategy "contrarian" there is a clear difference between that and value investing. The strategy outlined in this book is certainly value.This aside, I found this book extremely helpful. The tools needed to build a winning portfolio are covered comprehensively and the author also gives readers a formula for calculating what expected growth should be. Highly recommended for anyone seeking an exciting and low risk investment strategy.

A very good overview for someone seeking a discription of what a value investor looks for. From key finiancials to inventory turnover to when to buy a stock. Would recommend to anyone needing a refresher prior to going a little deeper into the value investing subject area.

I feel that the author explains value investing in a practical and non threatening way to the beginning and intermediate investor. In these times of Investing for Dummies manuals How to Be A Value Investor not only tells the reader how, but why.