Common Stocks and Common Sense

INDEX

A

• Abohbot Davis, Elizabeth “Biggie,”
• Air Products
• Airbus
• Akers, John
• Albright, Dick
• American Airlines
• American International Group (AIG)
  • analysis of
  • bailout of
  • bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, effect on
  • legal problems (2004–2005)
  • letter to shareholders
  • valuation of
• American Saint-Gobain
• Analytical skills
• Avon

B

• Background, author
  • analytical skills
    • Westinghouse Science Talent Search
  • confidence
  • contrarian, willingness and ability to be
  • education
  • emotions, control of
  • fun
  • motivation to succeed financially
  • pragmatic goals and ambition
• Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad
• Behavioral economics
• Berkowitz, Howard
• Boeing
  • defense business
  • earnings per share model
  • origin of company
  • 787 program
    • battery problem in
  • pension expense analysis
  • Porter's five forces test
  • projection of defense segment profits
  • shares, valuation of
• Boeing, William Edward
• Buffett, Warren

C

• Capacity, adding to
• Cavendish, Henry
• Cayley, Sir George
• Centex Coporation
  • growth rate of
  • housing crisis
  • housing starts, rate of
    • boom in
  • monitoring progress of
  • sale of securities of
• Central National–Gottesman Corporation (CN-G)
• Charles, Jacques
• Citicorp
• Coca-Cola
• Cohn, Gary
• Common stocks
  • permanent loss, minimizing risk of
  • reward-to-risk attractiveness of
• Confidence, investor
• Contrarians
  • willingness and ability to be
• Corbin, Todd
• Crude oil, price of (2014)

D

• da Vinci, Leonardo
• Davis, Samuel “Boss,”
• Davis Lewis, Leonora “Lennie,”
• “The Death of Equities” (BusinessWeek)
• Delta Airlines

E

• Earnings ...