The Big Tech Score: A Top Wall Street Analyst Reveals Ten Secrets to Investing Success

I originally heard this work through Audible.com, and liked it enough that I've bought multiple hardcopies for friends and myself. The book provides a blueprint for personally managing a small number of stocks. This stock portfolio should be hedged by other diverse investments including safe money (i.e. fixed interest) and mutual funds. There is a lot of good advice throughout the book. They cover, in part, (1) why you should concentrate on a few stocks and know them inside and out, (2) metrics for determining an appropriate value for a stock, (3) effective screening tools in finding the gems, and (4) some no-nonsense views of how the stock market really operates with respect to analysts. Highly recommended.

This book was fairly easy to read. The author made it very interesting. Most important points are his insights into growth investing and how to make it different than the other popular methods. Although there are lots of quantitative recomendations, I particularly liked his qualitative ones. For example, his recommendations on how to size up management were very good.I think it would be easy for anyone to follow his quantitative advice: coming up with ways to screen out stocks based on financial statistics. But the real test is in applying the qualitative screens -- this is what makes the horse race.In this light, his comments on: competitive advantage, loving companies that customers love, looking for long term thinkers were great.On the negative side, I think he could have better described the relationship between growth rates and PE ratios. Also, I think he knows alot more than he has told us. I hope he comes out with another book, or a newsletter that describe his views.I enjoyed his discussion about how growth rates return to a mean, and how to adjust your PE ratios to use next years numbers. Although his discussion of competitive advantage was good, I think there's a lot more here that could have been discussed.Overall, I rank it as "HIGHLY RECOMMENDED."John Dunbar

A great book for anyone who ever wondered what goes on behind closed doors on Wall Street. This book makes investing fun.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Mike Kwatinetz's outlines his approach to investing which is comprised of a dose of good common sense coupled with a easy-to-use set of analytical modeling techniques. This allows the investor to get beyond the hype that is so prevelant in today's tech environment to really get at understanding what's really going on in a company and what a company's "real" potential is. The book is full of useful antecdotes from Mike's vast Wall Street experience and network which provide valuable insight into how some of the best and brightest money managers and technology executives think. The easy readability of the book is another strong positive. You don't need a PhD. in Finance to understand it -- but even those with PhDs will get a lot out of it. If one of your new year's resoultions is to improve your personal finances, start by buying and reading this book.

Whether you are a financial guru or investing neophyte, I think you will find this book to be incredibly informative, engaging and enjoyable. Just a quick look at the comments and reviews of this book given by top CEOs and portfolio managers will reveal that there must be something special inside. And there is. Danielle and Mike take us step-by-step through a specific paradigm for thinking about the constitution of a successful business. The tone of the text is such that novices can easily follow-along without alienating or boring the experts. Throughout the book, concrete examples are interspersed with anecdotal stories and interviews with successful investors. The whole package is a fantastic read, chock-full of excellent information. In a time when we are overwhelmed by business book after book, this is a worthy addition to the field.