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Todays active investors enjoy spotting, tracking, and paying bottom dollar on undiscovered gems. In The Superstock Investor, stock-picking icon Charles LaLoggia provides the tools and insights sharp investors need to uncover ready-to-perform stocksand walks the reader step-by-step through the process of identifying and selecting these stocks before they break out to become true Superstocks. Whether sniffing out prime consolidation candidates or spotting takeover candidates in multiple-bidder situations, The Superstock Investor provides every clue active investors need to find the best in undervalued stocks. Readers can follow Charles LaLoggias systems and guidelines for: Spotting the Top 9 Takeover Clues Ways the media reveal Superstocks Using charts to find and analyze undervalued companies

Table of contents

Part One: The Making of a Superstock Investor. Chapter One: A Defining Moment. Chapter Two: A Superstock is Born. Chapter Three: Stock Selection. Chapter Four: Investing Paradigms: A New Way of Thinking about Stock Selection. Chapter Five: The Twilight of Index Investing. Chapter Six: Experts: What Do They Know? Chapter Seven: What is Value? Chapter Eight: If Everybody Knows Everything, Then Nobody Knows Anything. Part Two: Identifying Takeover Targets. Chapter Nine: Creeping Takeovers. Chapter Ten: How to Create Your Own Research Universe of Takeover Candidates — The Telltale Signs. Chapter Eleven: How to Use the Financial Press. Chapter Twelve: Family Feuds. Part Three: Takeover Clues. Chapter Thirteen: Beneficial Owner Buying. Chapter Fourteen: The Pure Play and the Drug Store Industry. Chapter Fifteen: Using Charts. Chapter Sixteen: The Domino Effect. Chapter Seventeen: Merger Mania: Take the Money and Run. Chapter Eighteen: Look for Multiple Telltale Signs. Appendix: A Superstock Shopping List.

Author comments

Charles LaLoggia is the editor of Superstock Investor, a newsletter that focuses on companies that are likely targets of takeovers or other price catalysts. A former insider trading analyst with Merrill Lynch, LaLoggia has been featured in a variety of national financial media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Barrons, The Nightly Business Report, and Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser.

Cherrie Mahon is Director of Research for Superstock Investor. Before joining the newsletter, Mahon was a successful stockbroker with a major brokerage firm.

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Proven Strategies to Spot Companies Poised to Climb 40%, 140%, or Morein Any Type of Market!

SuperstockA stock which has the potential to rise significantly in price because of a specific potential eventwhich will literally force the stock higher.

Charles LaLoggia has published his well-regarded investment newsletter for more than a quarter-century. In that time, he has acquired a well-deserved reputation for giving his readers undervalued, out-of-favor companies on the brink of becoming starsstocks poised to potentially double in price!

In The Superstock Investor, LaLoggia tells you how he does it, and provides you with an entirely new way of pulling highly accurate stock leads from seemingly insignificant financial news. He explains how to see the telltale signs of a stock that is poised to shoot upnot over the years but practically overnightincluding: * Dependable signals to identify the difficult-to-detect Pure Play stock * Top 9 takeover cluesand how they crop up time and time again * How charts can help you uncover and analyze undervalued companies that are about to become superstocks

Is it easy? Will it work on every stock? Of course not. But one thing is certain: Advice and guidelines in The Superstock Investor will dramatically increase your chances of finding undiscovered superstocks on the verge of breaking outand climbing on board to consistently lock in market-beating returns.

There are a number of events, or catalysts, which can force a stock that is trading at undervalued levels to move instantly closer to its true value as a business. From the Introduction

The markets are filled with solid stocks that have yet to be discovered by the mainstream of analysts and investors. For any number of reasonserratic recent earnings, unexciting growth prospects, or other nonvalue considerationsthese companies are underpriced in relation to their intrinsic value. They can bump along for years without investors driving up their stock price to fully valued levels.

Occasionally, though, events happen that leave the markets no choice but to value these stocks near, at, or even above their intrinsic values. These eventstakeover bids, spin-offs, stock buybacks, or other catalystsoften leave surprisingly accurate clues and signs they are about to occur.

The Superstock Investor describes how to see and interpret these clues, and add stocks to your portfolio just before they become superstocks. It explains what makes a superstockand what makes it different from other undervalued stocksthen outlines the tools needed to uncover these market-beating stocks and detect the signs that they are about to surge higher.

Using plainspoken language and unequivocal honesty, Charles LaLoggiathe original superstock investorand Cherrie Mahon discuss: * Actual examples of superstocks that went undiscovered by traditional analystsbut garnered great returns for tuned-in investors after receiving takeover bids * Decision-making and behavior patterns that generally emerge when an undervalued company is a targetor is thinking of putting itself up for sale * Where to look in business and financial media for vital clues and information on impending superstocks and potential takeover targets

The Superstock Investor paints an entirely convincing portrait of todays inefficient market, one in which everyday human emotionspride, greed, jealousy, arrogance, and just plain lack of common senseare more important to stock prices than actual intrinsic value. It shows how, in the past quarter-century of bull markets, bear markets, recessions, and other financial environments, single events or series of events have more often than not led to substantial price jumps generated by takeover bids.

Certain stocks in any market will march to their own drummer, apart from the daily emotional winds that buffet and drive the overall market. Let The Superstock Investor show you how to read the signs all around you to locate these stocks, make them part of your portfolio, then see the superstock catalysts for what they aredramatic and proven predictors of impending stock rises.