Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments-How This Book Came to Pass -- Part One: The Anatomy of a Super Stock -- Chapter 1 Get Rich with the "Glitch" -- Analyzing Super Stocks-In Search of "The Perfect Glitch" -- Chapter 2 What Makes the Glitch Twitch? -- Tough Times Separate the Men from the Boys -- They'll Bitch at the Glitch -- "Success Has a Thousand Fathers, but Failure Is a Bastard" -- Some Companies Make It-Some Don't -- Part Two: Valuation Analysis -- Chapter 3 Conventional Approaches to Stock Valuation-The Riddle: Ten Times Earning's Is too High and a Thousand Times Is Too Low -- The Problem: If Left Field and Right Field Don't Work, Get Out of the Stadium -- Earnings-Based Methods -- The Solution -- Chapter 4 Pricing Is Everything-Use Price Sales Ratios -- Bulls, Bears, and Turkeys -- Understanding Price Sales Ratios (PSRs) -- What Does the Relationship between Price and Sales Mean? -- A Super Stock Is a Super Company Bought at a Low PSR Relative to the Company's Size -- What Is a Low PSR, What Is a High PSR, and Why? -- Getting the Right Slant on Stocks -- Swimming Upstream as You Grow -- A Fear of Heights -- The Threshold of Never-Never Land -- The Economics of Going Public -- Chapter 5 Price Research Ratios-The Cost of a Good Set of Brains -- The Problem-Landing a Whale -- What is the Price Research Ratio? -- Research Is Just a Commodity -- Market Research Wags Technical Research -- Rules for Using PRRs -- Problems with PRRs -- Chapter 6 Applying Price Sales Ratios to Nonsuper Stocks -- PSRs, the Broader Concept -- Lessons of the Past-PSRs in the Bull Market of the 1960s and Early 1970s -- PSRs and the Great American Smokestack Stock -- Use PSRs as The Stock Market Timing Device -- Fisher's Rules for Timing the Stock Market -- PSRs in the "Garbage Dump" of the Stock Market -- Chapter 7 Fortunes from Failures-The Myth of the 1930s -- Through the Time Warp -- IBM Not a Growth Stock? -- Spectacular Profits with Low-PSR Stocks -- What about All Those Great Companies? -- Part Three: Fundamental Analysis -- Chapter 8 Super Companies: The Business Aspects-Stalking Excellence -- Basic Business Traits -- Growth Orientation -- Marketing Excellence -- Find the Unfair Advantage -- Labor Relations Are Critical -- Financial Controls-Question the Answers -- Chapter 9 Avoid Risk-Avoid Competition -- David and the Anteaters -- Avoid the Places Anteaters Hang Out -- The Japanese Zap Large Markets-Sometimes -- Small (and Different) Is Beautiful -- Remember Your Teddy Roosevelt-Walk Softly but Carry a Strong Balance Sheet -- Who Stands behind the Financials? -- Who Has Controlling Interest? -- Chapter 10 Margin Analysis-All I Really Want in Life Is an Unfair Advantage -- The Problem -- Some Definitions -- Look for Clues from the Past: Who Kicked the Sleeping Dog? -- Something Rather Unique Must Be Done -- All I Really Want in Life Is an Unfair Advantage -- Chapter 11 Margin Analysis Continued-Formulas and Rules -- A Forecasting Formula for Margin Analysis -- Rules for Margin Analysis -- No One Is Perfect-You Don't Have to Be.
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"Super Stocks gives a historical perspective on how Fisher successfully researched companies and stocks?who he saw and what he asked?to get a better read on profitable returns"--Publisher website (November 2007).