Fundamental Analysis for Beginners

Grow Your Investment Portfolio Like a Pro Using Financial Statements and Ratios of Any Business with Zero Investing Experience Required

By: A.Z Penn

Narrated by: James Jackson

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

Stocks go up! Stocks go down! The stock market looks as if it's just a big show. But how would you like to be able to know what a stock's really worth—and make money by buying it at a discount?

Learn how to analyze a company's financial reports and business, and you can make great returns by buying stocks below their true value. That's the way Warren Buffett made his $96.3 billion. It's the way Peter Lynch took the Fidelity Magellan fund from zero to hero—making a 29 percent annual return and increasing the value of each $1,000 invested in the fund on day one to $28,000 when he retired.

• Tiffany James started with a single investment in Tesla back in 2019. She built her initial investment into a two million-dollar portfolio and now runs online community Modern Blk Girl.
• Ishfaq Peerally is an investor from Mauritius who is one of the top value investors on eToro. He's turned $10,000 in September 2016 into $83,000 by April 2022!

They've vastly increased their wealth by investing in stocks. And you could join them!

But a lot of beginning investors lose money time after time, because there are 6 basic skills they haven't acquired:

1. They don't know how to read a company's financial statements.
2. They don't know how to assess a company's value.
3. They don't know how to calculate basic ratios to assess the health of the business.
4. They don't know how to set a target buy price for a stock.
5. They don't know how to check whether the CEO is telling the whole truth.
6. They don't have the discipline and patience to do the research, or to wait for the stock to perform.

So even if you’ve never explored a single investment book in your life, this audiobook on its own will give you all the basics that you need to understand to become a successful investor in stocks.

So if you want to know when to buy a company, then you should listen to this audiobook!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Awais Zubair (P)2022 Awais Zubair

Investing for noobs

Exciting audiobook to listen to more than once. It comes with a PDF with the complete transcript, which greatly helps me. If you are a noob investor like me you will enjoy this detailed audiobook, so I recommend it to all people that want to learn more about this subject. Thanks, A.Z. Penn

An Investors's Dream Audiobook

I was intrigued by the name of this audiobook and keen to understand the concept. As someone who completed a Master's in Business Administration, I thought I’d have a basic understanding of the concept but how wrong I was. This information is on another level – comparing ratios, profits, inventory turnover and others. This is the perfect book for investors and people who are climbing the corporate ladder and hoping to make significant profits.

I particularly love Chapter 7 – What CEOs say and what they mean, very insightful indeed.

No Fuss, Just Knowledge

The thing I appreciate about this book is that it teaches me concepts that the title claims to teach, and does it without saying anything extra. The Texan accent of the narrator is also super fun despite the material itself being a bit boring (because it's a lot of math and accounting).

Informational and accurate

This book has a lot of detailed information. However, the way the content is delivered is super dry and boring. A couple chapters really didn't relate to the book and disrupted the books flow. The book have been done a lot better overall.

Delivers on promise and more!

Let me say this outright, WAO! It's been a while since I raved about anything, especially reviews, but this book is really loaded. I had so little knowledge about investing, relied on my regular 401k provided by my job, and would get notices on investments I had no control over or knowledge about. A colleague recommended I read this book just published to see if I learn anything. Thanks, Uche, for this recommendation, and now, I am recommending this to everyone without reservation. Get your learning pad out and take notes. It says 6 hrs plus, but it took me an entire 2 weeks of going back and forth taking notes. It's that good. I Learned how to analyze a company's financial reports and business, and how I can make great returns by buying stocks below their true value. It has real-life examples of single investments that changed lives, such as taking action with Tesla in 2014. I invested in Tesla but so little that the writing on the wall would be so apparent if I had this information. Back then, a friend literally took out a loan to invest in Tesla and begged me, but he could not explain why I still beat myself up for not listening. I had lost money in the past, and of course, I thought he was crazy. With the knowledge I gained here, I would have known how to assess a company's value and get basic ratios to assess the business's health. Glad this is the first in-depth investment book I had to listen to. I highly recommend it.

Great book for potential investors

This book is packed full of excellent info for anyone thinking about investments and managing their portfolio. With A.Z's help, you will learn how to analyze a company's financial statements, assess their potential value, how to determine appropriate prices for stocks and how to analyze a stock's performance. I highly recommend for anyone looking to invest in the future!

Excellent audiobook

This book really has the perfect combination of beginner-level explanations and slightly more advanced ideas that you'll need to invest effectively. Clear, concise explanations in an informal style made the listen really enjoyable. I feel quite equipped to start investing now. A must-listen for anyone looking to gain a solid understanding of investments and the stock market.

Educates without intimidating newcomers

I don't consider myself a financial wizard, but I can do arithmetic and balance a checkbook (a lost art among young people). As a novice investor, I needed an audiobook to listen to while exercising. I used the audible app to bookmark and took notes with my phone. While I prefer to read these types of books, I found the audio version helpful because of the app's interactive features. I recommend that newcomers listen to the audiobook multiple times and take notes. Because you'll want to come back to this audiobook time and again. My only gripe was the lack of a quick reference. There is a ton of information here, and not having at least something to review when not listening would have been helpful. Nevertheless, I recommend this book, and it is worth your audible credit.

Must listen!

This Audiobook is very informative. Tips are useful. I learned a lot about investment through this book. The Author and Narrator are excellent. I highly recommend this Audiobook.

Fundamental to learning Fundamental Analysis

A very conversational book. The author talks you through the steps of Fundamental Analysis in a clear and organized manner. Best for beginners learning the vocabulary and concepts of valuation. But still works for an entry level analyst who should be able to grasp every concept. The Amazon analysis is very clear and concise and the author does a great job simplifying difficult areas of the financial statements. It is long but needs to be for the full use of Fundamental Analysis. The real value is the ease in which the author navigates through topics that could be landmines to learning the concepts.