Publications

Beating the Street

Type
Link
Cost
Paid
Published
1994
Updated
2012

Beating the Street is legendary money manager Peter Lynch’s attempt to explain how to produce a mutual fund strategy. He shares his step-by-step strategies for selecting stock, and expounds how an individual investor can boost his investment performance to parallel that of the experts. Peter Lynch also explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio. In this book, Lynch shows how you can build a profitable investment portfolio based on your own experience and insights.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Preface

  • Preface to the Trade Paperback Edition

  • Introduction: Escape from Bondage

  • One: The Miracle of St. Agnes

  • Two: The Weekend Worrier

  • Three: A Tour of the Fund House

  • Four: Managing Magellan: The Early Years

  • Five: Magellan: The Middle Years

  • Six: Magellan: The Later Years

  • Seven: Art, Science, and Legwork

  • Eight: Shopping for Stocks: The Retail Sector

  • Nine: Prospecting in Bad News: How the "Collapse" in Real Estate Led Me to Pier 1, Sunbelt Nursery, and General Host

  • Ten: My Close Shave at Supercuts

  • Eleven: Blossoms in the Desert: Great Companies in Lousy Industries

  • Twelve: It's a Wonderful Buy

  • Thirteen: A Closer Look at the S&Ls

  • Fourteen: Master Limited Partnerships: A Deal with a Yield

  • Fifteen: The Cyclicals: What Goes Around Comes Around

  • Sixteen: Nukes in Distress: CMS Energy

  • Seventeen: Uncle Sam's Garage Sale: Allied Capital II

  • Eighteen: My Fannie Mae Diary

  • Nineteen: Treasure in the Backyard: The Colonial Group of Mutual Funds

  • Twenty: The Restaurant Stocks: Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

  • Twenty-One: The Six-Month Checkup

  • 25 Golden Rules

  • Postscript

  • Index