Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings

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A
Accounting, 70, 116 
Advances, large, 111–113, 263–264 
Advisors. See Financial advisors 
Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), 49 
American Cyanamid, 93–95 
American Stock Exchange, 129 
Ampex Corporation, 84, 85, 142, 143, 212, 245 
Anderson-Barngrover Manufacturing Company, 230, 238 
Annual reports, tone of, 129–130 
Appraisals, 156–161, 208–210, 211–212, 213–217, 222–224
company, 218–222, 223–224
industry, 157–160, 213–217, 223–224 
Arthur D. Little, 166 
B 
Banks, commercial, 167–168 
Battelle, 166 
Beryllium Corporation, 140–141 
Bonds, 40–42 
Brand names. See Trade names 
Brokers. See Stock brokers 
Business ability, 241 
Business cycle, 90–91, 102–104, 108, 160, 260–261 
Businesses investment characteristics of, 198–206, 282. See also Growth
company; Industry appraisals 

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Buying 
finding stocks in, 47–78, 79–88 
timing of, 89–104, 153–155, 276 
on war scare, 144–147 
C 
California Packing Corporation, 249 
Campbell Soup Company, 202–203 
Capital gains taxes, 108, 111, 277 
Changing world, 191–192 
Chemical industry, appraisals of, 214–215 
Civil War, 156, 223, 256 
Clamming up, 77
Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 90 
Commercial banks, 167 
Commercial plants, first, 92–94 
Common stock, fifteen points to look for in, 47–78 
Company appraisals, 218–222, 224 
Competition 
company in relation to, 71–73 
profit margins and, 200, 282 
in technology, 203–204 
Computers, 90, 201–202, 258 
Conservative investing, definition of, 178 
Conservative investments, 178 
1st dimension of, 180–186 
2nd dimension of, 187–197 
3rd dimension of, 198–206 
4th dimension of, 207–212, 213–217, 218–224 
Consulting research laboratories, 166 
Contrary but correct, 243–244, 277. See also Appraisals 
Coordination, 55–56 
Corning Glass Works, 52–53 
Cost analysis, 70–71 
Crash, of Raychem Corporation, 271–274 
Crash of 1929, 90, 102, 233–234, 235, 241, 256 
Crash programs, 55–56 
Crummey, John D., 241–242 
Customers, attention to, 257, 280