Fifteen questions to ask yourself before buying any stock

From Frankly Speaking:

In Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, legendary investor (and one of the rare people to influence Buffett’s investment style) Philip Fisher provides fifteen questions to ask yourself before investing in a company.

These are aimed at identifying the qualitative factors that are associated with well-managed companies with strong growth prospects. Here they are:

Does the company have…

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Chuck Jaffe: A lot of people spend more time selecting their NCAA basketball tournament bracket than they spend thinking about their investment selections.

By Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch

BOSTON — Whether you talk to friends, scan the Internet or listen to talk radio, it’s clear that a lot of people will spend more time this week selecting their NCAA basketball tournament bracket than they’ll spend thinking about their investment selections in a year.

Listen to how people actually fill in their brackets, however, and it’s not all that different from how they fill their [...]