Investing In Neglected Stocks

Hidden opportunities: how to find great stocks that the analysts aren't covering. Many years ago, Sir John Templeton offered some straightforward words on investing: "If you find one dozen analysts who all advise to purchase the same stock, you can be sure that the stock will not be a good purchase." His point, of course, is that popular stocks often represent poor investments since their prospects have already been well recognized ...

Hidden opportunities: how to find great stocks that the analysts aren’t covering. Many years ago, Sir John Templeton offered some straightforward words on investing: “If you find one dozen analysts who all advise to purchase the same stock, you can be sure that the stock will not be a good purchase.” His point, of course, is that popular stocks often represent poor investments since their prospects have already been well recognized....

Discover four simple ways to uncover exceptional value in equities with strong fundamentals. Short-term price movement in the market is always chaotic, and, as confusing as this is, it can become your greatest advantage. First, pick companies and stocks based on sound fundamental analysis. Second, time your purchase based on value, not fads. If you believe in the fundamentals, but you don’t know how to narrow down the list of what to watch, consider the following four suggestions....

Picking Winning Shares Author: Mick Pavey FROM THE BACKCOVER This book is written for the thousands of investors who are seeking market beating returns from their investments. In a time of low interest rates and rising inflation, this book reveals simple winning strategies that work again and again for the ordinary intelligent investor. Picking Winning Shares contains ground breaking and innovative ways, to combine Fundamental and Technical Analysis. Using the simple techniques contained herein, author Mick Pavey has achieved real annual growth, in his Self - Invested Personal Pension (SIPP), averaging 46% over the past three years. In doing so, he has out-performed the all share index which has fallen by 6.3% over the same period. He believes that anyone can learn to become a great DIY- Investor and beat the markets. Inside you will learn how to: Find big profits by investing in bruised, battered or depressed shares Use a combination of technical and fundamental filters to pick winners Recognise common winning technical patterns Identify the key fundamental ratios Avoid common mistakes Improve your consistency as an investor Know when is the right time to sell a share This "How to" book will benefit the following groups of people: Novice Investors Experienced investors looking to improve their results People looking to make their money work for them and gain free time Those in their 40's and 50's who are late starting a pension Anyone needing to create a deposit to get on the property ladder Families wishing to provide for their children(s) school or university places Business owners looking for increased returns from retained earnings Retired people looking for better returns on their savings Picking Winning Shares reveals the secret (legal) money making system that only the wealthy know Using many examples, illustrated with graphs and diagrams throughout, you will easily gain a clear grasp of the author's techniques. Chapter 16 contains examples, of the application of key principles contained in this book, using fully detailed case studies based on real investments made by the author. CONTENTS 1 Is This Book for You? 2 Why Another Book on Investing? 3 What You Will Gain From Reading This Book 4 Understanding Company Finances 5 The Life Span of a Public Company 6 Strategies for Picking Winning Shares 7 The Reasons Big Winners Come From Low Priced/Depressed Stocks 7.1 Common Sense? 7.2 Off the Radar Screen 7.3 Low Valuations & Low Priced - Why Do They Do Better? 7.4 What Can We Learn From Graham, Buffet, Lynch etc? 8 Using Simple Technical Analysis 8.1 Trends 8.2 Moving Averages 8.3 Other Indicators 8.4 Turning Points 8.5 Typical Patterns 8.6 Lateral Breakouts 8.7 Explosive Breakouts 8.8 Summary of Simple Technical Analysis 9 How to Use Key Aspects of Fundamental Analysis 9.1 It's all in the numbers 9.2 Balance Sheet 9.3 Turnover and PSR 9.4 Profit 9.5 Earnings and Price to Earnings 9.6 Cash Flow and Price-to-Cash Flow 9.7 Summary of Simple Fundamental Analysis 10 How to Blend Technical and Fundamental Analysis to Pick Winning Shares 11 Filtering to Create Your "Watchlist" 11.1 Initial Selection 11.2 Fine Tuning 11.3 What to Choose? 12 Research 13 Ready to Buy? 14 Monitoring Your Investment Portfolio 15 Selling 15.1 Selling Manually or Automatically? 15.2 Holding Winners and Cutting Losers 15.3 Deciding to Sell 15.4 Stop Losses 15.5 Pre-Set Sell Orders 15.6 Dealing with the Proceeds of Sales 16 Case Studies 17 Keep Your Profits, Limit Your Losses 17.1 Having a System 17.2 Keeping the Gains 17.3 What the Wealthy Know - the Secret (Legal) Money-Making System 17.4 Record Keeping Appendices 1 & 2, Index & About the Author

There are large cross-sectional differences in the probability and magnitude of mispricing among stocks. Mispricing is traditionally attributed to stock-specific frictions. We show that mispricing can be explained in a rational equilibrium where investors allocate investigative resources to stocks to maximize their expected profits from arbitrage. Stocks with smaller dollar profit potential are allocated less attention and their percentage mispricing is higher on average. For such stocks, information discovery by investors is slow and the mispricing is corrected mostly through mandatory disclosures by firms. Using measures of institutional attention and trading discreteness, we confirm this mechanism empirically. The attention allocation channel explains the cross-sectional pattern of mispricing better than any classic arbitrage frictions.