One Up On Wall Street

Peter Lynch, America's top money manager, shares his proven strategy for average investors to pick winning stocks. By observing business developments in daily life, investors can identify successful companies before professional analysts do. Lynch's approach focuses on understanding financial statements and identifying key numbers to spot 'tenbaggers'—stocks that appreciate tenfold or more. His timeless advice emphasizes long-term investment strategies, ignoring market ups and downs, to build a star-performing portfolio. /n/n Lynch's insights are backed by his successful track record managing Fidelity's Magellan Fund. He provides practical guidelines for investing in various types of companies, including cyclical, turnaround, and fast-growing firms. The book also includes a new introduction with Lynch's take on the rise of Internet stocks and a list of winning companies from the high-tech '90s, reinforcing his thesis that amateur investors can reap exceptional rewards from mundane, easy-to-understand companies.