How to Select Winning Stocks

By Paul Larson

Book Overview

3 Easy Steps to Better Stock Investing

Lessons explain key stock investing concepts clearly and simply to help you learn quickly.

Quizzes reinforce and build on what you learn.

Worksheets let you put what you learn into practice immediately to improve your own investing.

Morningstar Investing Workbook Series helps you build skills progressively at your own pace. Look for these other titles in the Workbook Series:

Stocks 1: How to Get Started in Stocks

Stocks 3: How to Refine Your Stock Strategy

Mutual Funds 1: Find the Right Mutual Funds

Mutual Funds 2: Diversify Your Fund Portfolio

Mutual Funds 3: Maximize Your Fund Returns

Morningstar has been helping investors make better investing decisions for more than 20 years with independent information and analysis. Morningstar people are passionate about helping you invest successfully.

Paul Larson is the editor of the Morningstar Investing Workbook Series: Stocks. He is also one of Morningstar's Equities Strategists and editor of Morningstar StockInvestor. As editor, Larson manages the publication's two market-beating portfolios: Tortoise for conservative and Hare for aggressive investors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471719587
• ISBN13: 9780471719588
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Learn how to pick stocks like a pro

This book takes readers to the next level of stock market investing after the previous book, How to Get Started in Stocks. Morningstar's philosophy to stock investing is based on Warren Buffett's teachings - buy great companies that earn high returns on capital, are protected by moats or competitive advantages, and are bought at good prices. This book teaches investors how to find economic moats, analyze financial statements, and value companies to determine if they should be purchased. This book also has a quiz and worksheet at the end of each chapter. Since the book is written by Morningstar, it references the company throughout the book. Morningstar offers subscription services to individual investors who can get access to analyst reports and opinions of value on individuals companies. In addition to reading this book, I recommend their subscription. - Mariusz Skonieczny, author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market

A very educational continuation in this series.

Just a great continuation of this series from Morningstar. If you are not a complete novice to personal investing, then the 1st book may be necessary, but this is an acceptable starting point if you feel like you know what you are doing. I have read all three books in this series, and the first one covered all of the necessary ground for someone who is starting with no previous knowledge. This book continues where the first left off, and I have used it to build my own personal strategy for assessing a company and it's business. I think that Larson's writing style, and the collaborative effort from his Morningstar team, is instrumental in making this kind of information palatable by the general population. If you are looking for financial and investment education products then I think Morningstar is one of the best places to go, and I have yet to be let down with any of their products or services.

Good book on valuing stocks

The book is one of a series by Morningstar. This particular describes the various accounting sheets (balance, income, etc.) used. It has two quite worthwhile chapters on economic moats and management quality. This is a good reference for investors trying to determine quality and value in a company. Some of the accounting sheets printed lightly, and with the small print, are hard to read. The only other recommendation would be to have an index.