From the Book - Revised edition, First Collins Business Essentials edition.
Introduction: What this book hopes to accomplish --
Investment versus speculation : results to be expected by the intelligent investor --
The investor and inflation --
A century of stock-market history : the level stock prices in early 1972 --
General portfolio policy : the defensive investor --
The defensive investor and common stocks --
Portfolio policy for the enterprising investor : negative approach --
Portfolio policy for the enterprising investor : the positive side --
The investor and market fluctuations --
Investing in investment funds --
The investor and his advisers --
Security analysis for the lay investor : general approach --
Things to consider about per-share earnings --
A comparison of four listed companies --
Stock selection for the defensive investor --
Stock selection for the enterprising investor --
Convertible issues and warrants --
Four extremely instructive case histories --
A comparison of eight pairs of companies --
Shareholders and managements : dividend policy --
"Margin of safety" as the central concept of investment --
Appendixes : The superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville --
Important rules concerning taxability of investment income and security transactions (in 1972) --
The basics of investment taxation (updated as of 2003) --
The new speculation in common stocks --
A case history: Aetna Maintenance Co. --
Tax accounting for NVF'S Acquisition of Sharon Steel shares --
Technological companies as investments.