March 2009
Beginner
640 pages
16h 2m
English
In this chapter we shall attempt a novel form of exposition. By selecting eight pairs of companies which appear next to each other, or nearly so, on the stock-exchange list we hope to bring home in a concrete and vivid manner some of the many varieties of character, financial structure, policies, performance, and vicissitudes of corporate enterprises, and of the investment and speculative attitudes found on the financial scene in recent years. In each comparison we shall comment only on those aspects that have a special meaning and import.
Pair I: Real Estate Investment Trust (Stores, Offices, Factories, etc.) and Realty Equities Corp. of New York (Real Estate Investment; General Construction) ...