From: Alexander P. <xt...@am...> - 2007-06-10 12:30:50
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <img alt="shoe" src="http://nfhare.hk/unchanged.gif"><br> He does not own shares in any of the companies in this story.<br> " That's a sobering thought, but not to worry: There are still plenty of bargains to be found.<br> Shannon Zimmerman runs point on the Fool's Champion Funds newsletter service and co-advises Motley Fool Green Light with his pal Dayana Yochim. Sales and membership drive it allLook at the first page of Costco's annual report. In short, it's a great look for Ask.<br> is that layoffs and corporate reshufflings may cost them their hides.<br> He owns no shares of companies mentioned here. This is what savvy investors understand, and why they pay a premium to own the Costco store. If the next stock that's pitched to you doesn't possess these traits, then you're probably better off passing. Small companies offer individual investors like us many other advantages. Tap into the potential of this DBA community to expand your business!<br> Most institutional investors, who have billions of dollars to allocate, must avoid small caps at least until they grow larger. That's because the company is designed to create value and share it with consumers in the form of lower and lower prices.<br> Wal-Mart just announced that it is slowing new Supercenter growth to curb cannibalization.<br> The ace in the hole for Costco investors is that management cares more about their members than they do about Wall Street analysts. But history shows that the good outweighs the bad, and you can do better investing in stocks than in any other asset class. But a dividend is a positive indicator, a telling sign of both financial strength and management's confidence that the company will continue to be solid through good times and bad.<br> Our guess is that Sal wants to live better than that. Yet Costco's growth rate is no better than average, and it's actually slower than either Target's or Best Buy's.<br> com for guidance you had Jeeves the butler showing you around. In the book Thomas offers advice you can follow to avoid this syndrome.<br> Motley Fool contributor Timothy M.<br> Even better, they'll help you earn great returns for decades.<br> A marginal investmentLacking a reason to argue, I'd like to use my allotted space to add a little context to this discussion.<br> Beating the market with small-cap stocks, as we've been doing in Hidden Gems, is not as difficult as you might think. Flipping and flipping until the Miami condo market came down around him.<br> </body> </html> |