Take Stock with Ellis Traub

Food for thought

• Introduction to Successful Investing
• Investing: How Simple Can it Be? Part 1
• Investing: How Simple Can it Be? Part 2
• Investing: How Simple Can it Be? Part 3
• Making Money, Part 1: What does it really mean?
• Making Money, Part 2: It Started with Barter
• Making Money, Part 3: Why is Our Healthy Economy Vulnerable?
• OpEd article by Warren E. Buffett in the NYTimes October 16, 2008.
• Rational Value: Your Key to Contentment
• Six Really Simple Steps to Buying a Quality Company
• The Growth Cycle
• The Only Ten Terms You Need to Know
• What’s a P/E, and What’s it to Me? Part 1
• What’s a P/E and What’s it to Me? Part 3
• What’s a P/E, and What’s it to Me? Part 2
• What’s Wrong with the Stock Market?

There are only two things you need to learn about a company and its stock:
• Is the company a good company?
• If it is, can you buy it at a reasonable price?

There are only two things you need to know to determine if it’s a well-managed company.
• Is the growth of its revenues and its profits strong and stable?
• Can its current management sustain its successful track record?

Both of these issues can be determined by looking at graphs of readily available data that you can plot yourself.