Beating the Street
About this product
Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio.
Develop a winning investment strategy with expert advice from the nation’s #1 money manager. Peter Lynch’s “invest in what you know” strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small.
An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There’s a company behind every stock and a reason companies—and their stocks—perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research.
In Beating the Street, Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts.
There’s no reason the individual investor can’t match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how. Read more
Editor's Take
Amazon reviewers say this book is easy to read, practical, and full of useful investing lessons, especially for beginners and readers who want clear guidance on balance sheets, market psychology, and stock selection.
Reviewers on Amazon also mention that it is a strong guide for novice investors, though some say it is less helpful for complete beginners and feels dated in places because the examples come from an earlier era.
On Goodreads, readers are generally positive about Peter Lynch’s straightforward style and real-world examples, but several note that some company references are no longer current.
Reddit discussion is mixed but leans positive; users commonly describe it as worth reading for its common-sense investing ideas, while a few criticize parts of the book as contradictory or overly simplistic.
Book review sites such as The Motley Fool and Kirkus describe it as a readable, valuable investing book with strong appeal for beginning investors and those interested in Lynch’s approach.
For YouTube, search results showed actual review videos about this specific book, including one titled Should You Read: Beating the Street? - Review Peter Lynch and another titled Beating the Street by Peter Lynch Book Review.
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Specifications
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publication date | May 25, 1994 |
| Edition | Revised |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 336 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0671891634 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0671891633 |
| Item Weight | 11.2 ounces |
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.44 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #36,426 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #8 in Mutual Funds Investing (Books) #139 in Introduction to Investing #141 in Biographies of Business & Industrial Professionals |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (2,862) |
