Growth Opportunities in Common Stocks

"How many of us hear of the phenomenal stock market success of others--those who picked Xerox or Avon products, while we sit on the investment sidelines with our "safe," unprofitable securities? We hear that the key to investment success is knowledge of a company's management. Yet few of us have access to corporate boardrooms. In this book a top analyst and partner in a major Wall Street firm takes the amateur's point of view, explaining how to make profitable use of financial information available to any alert lay investor. Mr. Knowlton first deals with such questions as how much money the investor should expect to make, how many stocks he should own, and what kinds of stocks he should look for in order to make continuing long-term capital gains. Then he discusses a number of specific companies, analyzes reasons for their success or failure, and provides a few statistical tools with which to measure the attractiveness of one company over another. Mr. Knowlton also shows how to find and use a competent broker, how to keep yourself well informed, and ends with a discussion of a few of the more promising product and market areas for enterprising corporations in the future. In offering a sound investment strategy, Growth Opportunities in Common Stocks offers guidelines with which to evaluate management performance, and ways to anticipate the important future event that will affect a stock's value. In short, the investor is led to understand why some companies grow and others don't." -- from dust jacket flaps