How To Find And Own America's Greatest Opportunities: By Bill O'Neil
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How To Buy Stocks — And See The Right Time To Sell
As a young stock broker in the 1950s, William J. O'Neil — the late founder of Investor's Business Daily — asked a simple question. What do the best growth stocks look like in the early stages of their massive runs?
To find the answer, he launched a detailed study of the greatest stock market winners in Wall Street history using both fundamental and technical analysis. The ongoing research he inspired now covers all of the greatest stocks going back to the 1880s. From IBM in the mid-1920s to Nvidia today, the best stocks of all time share common traits. The rules that O'Neil created and the continuing research by IBD market experts live on to this day through the four pillars of The IBD Methodology.
In this series of articles entitled "How To Find And Own America's Greatest Opportunities" — each written by Bill O'Neil himself — he provided detailed fundamental and technical analysis of some of the leading growth stocks of their time, such as Amgen and Google. This popular series originally ran in Investor's Business Daily in 2013-14. We're republishing it now for the education and enjoyment of current readers.
By studying these examples of great stocks and O'Neil's own stock chart analysis, you can learn to spot future winners while applying time-tested rules for how to buy stocks and when to sell.
Model Book Of The Greatest Stocks Of All Time
Stock Market History And The Best Stocks Of All Time
Each week, look here for the next installment of this collection of stock analysis from IBD's archives. In the coming weeks and months, you'll find profiles of the best-performing stocks of all time.
The series covers the best growth stocks from different eras in stock market history. Profiles range from Texas Instruments and Xerox in the 1950s and 1960s to McDonald's and Walmart in the 1970s and 1980s.
Dot-com darlings Cisco Systems and Qualcomm are also featured. Top growth stocks in more recent times include Netflix, Crocs and Taser maker Axon Enterprise.
Using Bill O'Neil's own fundamental and technical analysis, each case study highlights buy and sell signals common to the best stocks of all time. Finding today's top growth stocks starts with knowing what the biggest winners of the past looked like before they made their big runs.
About William J. O'Neil, Founder Of Investor's Business Daily
In the early 1960s, O'Neil used the rules and insights from his study to grow his personal account from $5,000 to $200,000 in 18 months. With those profits, he became the youngest person at the time to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. He launched William O'Neil + Co., a securities research firm that today serves over 350 of the world's mutual funds and leading institutional investors.
In 1984, O'Neil launched Investor's Business Daily, then known as Investor's Daily. Many Wall Street and media pundits thought he was crazy to launch a national newspaper. But from his decades in the market and long experience working with large institutional investors, O'Neil knew something was missing.
He knew it was time to level the playing field and give "ordinary" people access to the type of stock research and stock ratings that, before IBD, were only available to professional investors and money managers.
The creation of Investor's Business Daily revolutionized how the stock market is covered and empowered individual investors with the rules, research and ratings they need to learn how to make money in stocks.
Editor's note: In May 2021, Dow Jones parent News Corp acquired IBD.
