The Peter Lynch Guide To Picking Stocks

Investor, fund manager and a best-selling author, all rolled into one—that’s Peter Lynch. His books provide nuggets of practical approach to stock investing. We demystify his investing style to help you implement it when picking stocks. We also have some picks based on his strategy that you may consider Rrandom search on Google on “Who is Peter Lynch” will throw up two pieces of information about him, among others: his outperformance as a fund manager at Fidelity Investments and his status as a best-selling author. His investment philosophy in picking stocks has been widely acclaimed. During his tenure, the Fidelity Magellan Fund clocked 29.09 per cent annual returns compared to 14.47 per cent of the S&P 500 index. However, few talk about how he underperformed in 1984, 1987, and 1990 versus the S&P 500, albeit by a small margin. Also, no one points out...