Invest in Growth Stocks at the Right Price
Listen up! If you want to make real money in the stock market then you have to use a strategy that really works. You can't just read a magazine article and throw money at the stock market. You have to be smarter than that and you have to play the game right.
There are two basic investing methods that successful investors use to make money. They either use a growth or value oriented approach to investing, which looks for companies whose earnings are rapidly growing or whose stock is undervalued, or they employ technical analysis, which examines prior price and volume movements in order to forecast the future price movements of financial assets. Some investors use a combination of strategies, such as William O'Neill who combines a growth and technical approach to investing in his book How to Make Money in Stocks and in his newspaper, Investor's Business Daily.
Growth investors base their investment decisions on a study of the earnings of a company, but completely disregard valuations. They don't care if a stock is highly valued, only that earnings are growing quickly. William O'Neill is the most popular proponent of growth investing. He looks for companies whose quarterly earnings are up at least 20% from a year ago, whose annual compounded earnings per share should be between at least 15% for the past five years, and who have a new product or service that will help it capture market share. Although O'Neill then takes into consideration how strong the stock is when compared to the rest of the market and the general phase of the market, most pure growth stock investors do not worry about the position of the market or the stock itself.
Growth stocks usually do better than other stocks in bull markets, but can fall hard in a bear market. There are some dangers to growth investing. If all of a sudden the growth in the earnings stops the stocks can fall very hard, because investors are all betting on the big earnings growth to keep going on.
At some point this is going to happen, because nothing goes up forever, not even a rocket ship. The big companies we all know about all grew fast when they started out, but most don't grow as fast anymore so they are no longer growth stocks. Think about GE for example.
Growth stocks tend to have big valuations, because investors are willing to pay big prices to get the growth. That is why they can drop in a big way when bad news comes out or earnings growth stops. Investors need to also have some basic stock trading strategies in place to know when to take profits or sell.
The opposite of growth stock investing is value investing. The most famous value investors are Warren Buffet and his mentor Benjamin Graham. Value investors look for companies with low debt, a high book value, a dividend yield, a high sales-to-price ratio, and a low price-to-earnings ratio, among other things.
When the market has a correction then value investors can find the bargains they are looking for. The correction can happen due to a slow economy or just plain scared investors, but there is no reason to be fearful forever and that is how value investors come in and buy stocks when they are on sale and then sell them later.
One problem with value investing is that even after a company's earnings picture improves often its stock does not immediately respond. For instance when the price of gold fell from over 400 to under 260 between 1995 and 1998 the stock of large producing gold companies fell to ridiculously low valuations. However, it took two years for gold stocks to start to rally after they bottomed out.
You need to know that it is the growth stocks that go up the most in bull markets, but they fall the most in bear markets too. It is the value investor who knows when to get in cheap and sell high. You have to figure out which strategy you like the most. I combine them both and talk about both. - 23167
There are two basic investing methods that successful investors use to make money. They either use a growth or value oriented approach to investing, which looks for companies whose earnings are rapidly growing or whose stock is undervalued, or they employ technical analysis, which examines prior price and volume movements in order to forecast the future price movements of financial assets. Some investors use a combination of strategies, such as William O'Neill who combines a growth and technical approach to investing in his book How to Make Money in Stocks and in his newspaper, Investor's Business Daily.
Growth investors base their investment decisions on a study of the earnings of a company, but completely disregard valuations. They don't care if a stock is highly valued, only that earnings are growing quickly. William O'Neill is the most popular proponent of growth investing. He looks for companies whose quarterly earnings are up at least 20% from a year ago, whose annual compounded earnings per share should be between at least 15% for the past five years, and who have a new product or service that will help it capture market share. Although O'Neill then takes into consideration how strong the stock is when compared to the rest of the market and the general phase of the market, most pure growth stock investors do not worry about the position of the market or the stock itself.
Growth stocks usually do better than other stocks in bull markets, but can fall hard in a bear market. There are some dangers to growth investing. If all of a sudden the growth in the earnings stops the stocks can fall very hard, because investors are all betting on the big earnings growth to keep going on.
At some point this is going to happen, because nothing goes up forever, not even a rocket ship. The big companies we all know about all grew fast when they started out, but most don't grow as fast anymore so they are no longer growth stocks. Think about GE for example.
Growth stocks tend to have big valuations, because investors are willing to pay big prices to get the growth. That is why they can drop in a big way when bad news comes out or earnings growth stops. Investors need to also have some basic stock trading strategies in place to know when to take profits or sell.
The opposite of growth stock investing is value investing. The most famous value investors are Warren Buffet and his mentor Benjamin Graham. Value investors look for companies with low debt, a high book value, a dividend yield, a high sales-to-price ratio, and a low price-to-earnings ratio, among other things.
When the market has a correction then value investors can find the bargains they are looking for. The correction can happen due to a slow economy or just plain scared investors, but there is no reason to be fearful forever and that is how value investors come in and buy stocks when they are on sale and then sell them later.
One problem with value investing is that even after a company's earnings picture improves often its stock does not immediately respond. For instance when the price of gold fell from over 400 to under 260 between 1995 and 1998 the stock of large producing gold companies fell to ridiculously low valuations. However, it took two years for gold stocks to start to rally after they bottomed out.
You need to know that it is the growth stocks that go up the most in bull markets, but they fall the most in bear markets too. It is the value investor who knows when to get in cheap and sell high. You have to figure out which strategy you like the most. I combine them both and talk about both. - 23167
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