Due Diligence

Good read. Gives some idea about choosing some stocks . Some information needs more details . Still worth to read

Simple to understand. Very well written book. As a relatively new investor I was unsure how to go about researching companies as there are so many. This book has helped me know what I should be looking for when buying into a company.

Great for new investors who don't have a proper structure/methodology for analyzing stocks.

This book is a guide for how to research a publicly traded company “the right way” – basically, how everyone should be doing it. The author breaks the process down into three stages – quick, medium, and full due diligence, where you sort through a large number of companies and narrow them down to the ones you want to study in full.This is the kind of research you expect a professional money manager to do when you hire them, but I'm not so sure they do. When I compared the performance of my mutual funds to the relevant non-managed indexes, I was very disenchanted with the results. So I decided to put the bulk of my money in index funds (since they regularly beat most managed funds), and I've taken personal responsibility for a small portion for more speculative investments. I want to do it right, and this is a good book to have on hand to help me do so.Everyone knows the basics, like reading the quarterly report, but I never thought about some of the ways you can research the company’s management. The thing I liked most about the book was probably the lists of questions.As I read, I made a list of the things to go through at each stage and the questions to ask every time I research a new stock. Obviously, not everything applies to every company I research, but this book was a big help for me to make sure I don’t miss anything. Since I’ve been familiar with investing for many years, many of the techniques were very familiar to me. My first reaction was a contemptuous “well, duh!” But when I asked myself WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT I USED THAT in my own stock research, I was ashamed to realize that I had skipped on many of the basics in my own investing. I wish I had read this book right after college when I started investing. So I bought a copy to my nephew for his birthday next month! Hopefully he won't make many of my mistakes.I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to manage their own money. The newer you are at investing, the more you will get out of it.

This book cost $9.99, and just one of Mariusz's tips/warnings/suggestions/experiences could net a reader tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars. So, I judge this book (and other financial books) differently than I do literature. Is it well written? No. Does he need an editor? Yes. Is it concise relative to the information conveyed? Not particularly. And yet, I still give it 5 stars because the book is about function not form. I'm a huge fan of his twitter/youtube pages, and he does with his books the same thing he's doing on social media: teaching would-be investors how not to throw their money away gambling. He tells it how it is in a way that others just aren't doing. He's teaching people how to do the real leg work that enables an investor to buy with conviction. He's showing us that you don't need an MBA from Wharton to read an income statement or 10-k or, for that matter, to have an intelligent conversation with a CEO of a microcap company. So, if you are wanting to base your investment decisions on facts and not twitter memes, and you want to find companies that have potential to go up 10X +, I highly recommend Mariusz and this primer on Due Diligence. I suggest you follow it up with "A Guide to Investing in Undervalued Stocks," then "Scuttlebutt Investor". Now go find your next life-changing investment!

The information is swift and to the point, most books tell You do this = get rich. So why isn't everyone rich by now ? This book empowers you with simple advice, where to look and what to look for.