Beating the Street
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