Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds, 3rd Edition: Proven Strategies for Picking High-Growth Winners - Hardcover

Murphy, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767904567 ISBN 13: 9780767904568

Publisher: Broadway, 2000

Synopsis

Updated with new information, including:

The newest ways to invest in Internet stocks
Recent biotech developments and their effect on the market
Latest trends in high-tech consumer products

Updated and revised for the Third Edition, this national bestseller shows you how investing in high-tech can make you rich--even if you don't understand the technology.

How do you find the next Cisco or Intel? How can you avoid losing your shirt on start-up companies that suddenly fizzle and die? And how can techies and non-techies alike get the edge on Wall Street's booming high-technology sector?

Whether the stock market is enjoying an explosive bull run or retreating in the face of a possible bear market, the world of high-tech has become the most important investment opportunity of our time. Now, in this latest revised edition of Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds, Michael Murphy shows that you don't have to be an engineer or research scientist to do well in technology stocks. From software to communications to biotech, Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds provides refreshingly clear, jargon-free analysis of the eight key technology industries, sharing coveted insider tips and wisdom that will supercharge your portfolio's results.

Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds quickly established itself as the definitive book on high-tech stocks when it was first released in the fall of 1997. In this fully updated Third Edition, Murphy provides information on the newest ways to invest in Internet stocks, recent biotech developments and their effect on the market, and the latest trends in high-tech consumer products. Also included is a revised and updated list of the author's predicted blue chips of 2010.

Focusing on long-term investment strategies--including the easy-to-use Growth-Flow strategy that has made Murphy's California Technology Stock Letter one of the top-rated investment publications in the world--Murphy answers frequently asked questions and guides readers through the dos and don'ts of putting your money into high-tech. Got the inside scoop on an upstart software company or a great no-load fund that has skyrocketed in the past six months? Murphy shows you how to evaluate opportunities, decipher industry hype, and pick your shots with care. Unsure if you should heed the experts' warnings about the economy and the oncoming investment slump? Murphy offers surefire techniques for knowing when to invest--and when to get out. Simply trying to fund a comfortable retirement? Murphy examines a variety of stock and mutual fund options, and helps you assess which ones best suit your needs.

Whether you're investing in blue chip stocks or convertible bonds, this groundbreaking book provides essential information on how to build a technology portfolio, how to calculate the downside risk of any investment, and how to apply Murphy's unique, proven Growth-Flow model to maximize your returns. With detailed company profiles, stock performance records, and contact information for thirty of the best technology mutual funds, as well as forecasts for the next five years, Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds arms individual investors with everything they need to cash in on the current technology boom and beat the Dow in the stock market's hottest sector.

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Review

As the stock market has risen to ever-greater heights in recent years, high-tech stocks have led the way. But how many investors, though up to their ears in tech stocks, truly understand what they own? Michael Murphy, editor of the California Technology Stock Letter, makes it his business to understand the breakthroughs in science and engineering that are reshaping our lives. His book, Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds, is a useful guide for investors, both beginners and pros. It includes rundowns on the latest trends in semiconductors, computers, software, communications, and medical technology. This second edition includes a chapter on investing in Internet stocks. Murphy presents his own strategy for picking tech stocks, and offers recommendations of stocks and technology mutual funds that may have the best long-term prospects.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Michael Murphy and Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds:

"Michael Murphy gives us a practical guide to investing in [high-tech], helping non-techies makes sense of Wall Street's fastest-growing sector."
--San Diego Magazine

"Michael Murphy is the genuine article: a fundamental analyst who has developed a unique way of using the underlying financials of a company to value its stock."
--Worth

"A book that is far above other books claiming to take the mystique out of technology stocks . . . Michael Murphy [is] . . . one of the most widely quoted pundits on these subjects."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"The man many regard as America's top technology guru."
--Kirk Kazanjian, Wall Street's Picks for 1997

"Clearly written, well organized, logical and readily understood, this guide will prove indispensable to the self-managed portfolio investor."
--Publishers Weekly

"Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds by Michael Murphy is a thorough and thoughtful guide to every aspect
of the technology phenomenon."
--Bookpage

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadway
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0767904567
• ISBN 13: 9780767904568
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 320