BOOK SUMMARY: COMMON STOCKS AND UNCOMMON PROFITS
BOOK: COMMON STOCKS AND UNCOMMON PROFITS
AUTHOR: PHILIP A. FISHER
In the era we are living in, everyone wants to improve his standard of living and everyone did if we go through history of human being. Risk in the investment was higher in past, now reward is even higher for successful investor. It doesn’t mean that we conquered business cycle even we are not able to tame it. But there are so many factors added which affect the investment in the stock market. These factors are emergence of modern corporate management, economic harnessing of scientific research and developmental engineering.
These factors did not change the fundamental of stock market investment. It is necessary to look for these factors before investment. In the book author suggested about what to buy, when to buy it and sell as long as the company maintains the successful business. Any able investor can gain profit but anyone who has understood the rules and fundamental principles of investment may not be successful if we did not have patience and self discipline.
Anyone can buy the stock on the basis of analyzing companies plans for maintaining long range growth in profits and quality. By the stock when they are out of favor, either because of general market conditions or the financial community at the time, has misconception of it’s true worth.
In the book we learn to hold the stock until -
a. It has any fundamental change
b. It has grown more than economy
If you do any mistake in stock market it will be lead to minimize your gains. It would be like borrowing a bad loan. So avoid to do any mistake and if any done then recognize it and learn from it. It will be best if you take small risk in stock and wait for bigger reward. It will be the best investment. In the small scale companies whose price goes frequently up, may not be a good investment but if goes at it’s worth price then it can be a profitable investment.
In our financial community sometimes we follow blindly the stock which is more talked about and sometime we reject the stock just for sake of misunderstanding but these things are not wise to follow. We should go through every information pertaining to that stock then we should take any decision of buying or selling it.
Our success in investment depends on our hard work, intelligence and honesty as it depends on most of the fields in our general life.
Very nice book
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