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Summary: Good for detailed Statement Analysis
Review: This book is definitely not for beginners. It would be best used by someone who is going to do a very detailed analysis of company statements. It would be particularly helpful for someone trying to learn about the typical ways of window-dressing financial statements.
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Summary: An in-depth way to look at investing from the balance sheet
Review: This book is excellent for anyone wanting to get into the nitty gritty of companies and investing. I would not recommend this book to anyone new to investing or who just wants some general guidelines to follow.
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Summary: I wish the author could give more concrete example
Review: This book is probably one of the most complete and better investment book that I had read. The biggest problem with this book is that the information is presented bit by bit. For a non proffesional like me, it is extremely hard to fit the puzzle together. I would wish that the author applied his teaching by analyzing a financial statement, rather than give the information bit by bit. I had read this book three times from cover to cover and still gasping for air to put the info together. Probably the problem lies with me. One word though, I know for sure that this is the BIBLE of investment. I will keep reading it until I figure out the big picture.
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Summary: The best way to safety of principle and satisfactory return.
Review: This book is very informative in learning how to be as good as an investor as you want to become. With this book Warren Buffet bases 85% of his principle for investing, and I can sure see how someone can invest honestly and really profit over the years. The great thing is that allot of the companies that security analysis talks about have been around for years, and if someone was to perform a security analysis on some of the companies today, I'm sure they will come to some pretty good long range decisions. Coca-cola is one of the Companies that security analysis does talk about, and today that's one of Warren Buffets major purchases, it goes to show the value of the book. Also, with security analysis I feel you could attain just about any financial dream.
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Summary: Best Ever Written
Review: This is book has been updated many times (through the fifth edition). If you have read the latest edition, and believe you have read anything like the original, go back and read this one. Once you have read 'Old Ben', you will find other editions very disappointing. That could be why Warren Buffet suggested going back to the original if you want to know what value investing is all about. Current investment practice, and later editions of this book concentrate on the one thing that Graham said was, if not impossible, very non-productive - estimating future earnings. This book concentrates on understanding proven value. Where one spends most of its time on the income statement, this book spends most of its time on the balance sheet. There is a world of difference, and the difference leads to a much different portfolio, and future. There is, as the author points out repeatedly, a difference between investment and speculation. There is also a difference between helpful discussion and meaningful analysis. The original edition is full of meaning, written by a practitioner who also could teach. Later editions (especially the fifth) make me wonder how much of the master's works the new authors read before starting. It also makes me question how much influence Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette and Autanet exercised in return for their grant to finance the book. If you want a great book on investing read the original. It will give you much more insight and at least twice as much 'food for thought'.
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Summary: This book is a very good book !
Review: THis is the best book about how to break the security of the white house and to take the bull from the room of the president's room and ride on it before Mrs Bear come and get you.....Bloody good magazine.......I like the pictures too.
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Summary: THE BIBLE OF SECURITY ANALYSIS
Review: This is the BIBLE of security analysis written by Warren Buffett's mentor. It is possibly the most famous book on the market. My recommendation is for readers to use it, read it, and apply it. The Problem: Extremely hard to understand and lack of examples. You pretty much have to master your accounting to understand this book completely(...)
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