Chapter Six: Own Companies Instead of Trading Stocks
Revised and updated | Build Wealth with Common Stocks: Market-Beating Strategies for the Individual Investor
Own Companies Instead of Trading Stocks
CHAPTER SIX SUMMARY
Contribute to society and yourself or your family by owning common shares of businesses that maintain quality and compliance in an unpredictable world.
Defensive investors favor companies that are already growing, ignoring any growth promises from analysts, bloggers, or management.
In both the short term and the long term, the crowd is almost always mistaken. Outperform the market by becoming a well-informed investor.
By investing in value now, the careful, disciplined, and patient common stock investor profits from growth in the future.
Stop betting on stocks and start investing in companies. This original idea of trading stocks allowed willing participants to buy affordable partial shares in publicly traded companies. The approach remains the ideal model.
The original idea of buying and selling stocks allowed willing investors to gain affordable ownership in publicly traded companies easily. Over time, this concept has evolved beyond simply owning common shares based on their fundamentals to include a variety of research methods, ownership types, and trading platforms.
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