Saturday, August 04, 2007

What is your stock category?


Peter Lynch says we can classify stocks into six different categories. Before you buy a stock you need to fit that stock into the following categories. This will give you an idea when to sell the stock.

  • Slow Growers Large and Ageing Companies who started of as fast growers but ended up as Slow growers in a no growth industry. Mostly people hold these fixed income.
  • Stalwarts These leaders in a growing dynamic industries but since thier market cap is so huge that you would expect mostly to get max 50% rise out of them. Eg- CSCO, INTC and MSFT
  • Fast Growers Small agrresive new enterprises who grow at 20-25% per year.
  • Cyclicals These are companies whose sales and earnings grow or contract based on the economy hence called cyclical. Eg- Airlines, Autos
  • Turn Arounds Companies which are depressed battered and about to go into Chapter 11. They are actually no-growers which burn cash.
  • Asset Plays Company that is sitting on something valuable which you know about but Walstreet has over looked.

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