The Sacred Truths of Investing

Pick winning stocks with confidence through proven strategies from a renowned career investor

In The Sacred Truths of Investing, renowned stock picker and well-known media personality Louis Navellier delivers a blueprint to confidently and reliably pick winning stocks rather than relying solely on ESG, ETFs, and other index mutations for investment success. Backed by his proven experience, Mr. Navellier imparts both underlying theory and practical guidelines to enable readers to holistically understand the forces that shape the market and determine its direction.

Written in an accessible style with Mr. Navellier's signature understated wit, this book explores topics including:

• Why geopolitical risks are net bullish for US assets and how huge boomer assets fuel market growth
• Timeless advice in James Madison's rule book and the relationship between Gresham's Law and a debt ceiling
• Simple formulas for increasing odds of success and why Wall Street often seems darkest before the dawn
• Why emotions have no place in picking stocks or predicting market turns and how to rely on priceless accurate data rather than cheap opinions

For both beginners and experienced investors, The Sacred Truths of Investing is an essential resource to fuel greater investment success through calculated strategies that dispel the notion that “the market can't be beat.”

Preface vii

Part I Foundational Ideas 1

Chapter 1 To Build a Solid Foundation, Use Bricks 3

Chapter 2 Pessimism Generates Losses, Optimism Generates Wealth 9

Chapter 3 The United States Is an Oasis 17

Chapter 4 Don’t Listen to the Economists 25

Chapter 5 Greed Is Not Good, But Patience Is 35

Chapter 6 Our Debt Is Unsustainable 49

Chapter 7 The Seasons Repeat Themselves in the Markets 57

Chapter 8 Boomer Assets Will Flood the Market 67

Part II A Framework for Finding Growth Stocks 79

Chapter 9 Know Your Fundamentals 81

Chapter 10 Alphas, Betas, and Deviants 97

Chapter 11 Pulling It All Together 107

Part III Where to Look for Growth Stocks 119

Chapter 12 You Will Win With Homebuilders 121

Chapter 13 Own Monopoly Stocks 129

Chapter 14 Dividends Are Your Salvation 143

Chapter 15 Modern-Day Picks and Shovels 153

Chapter 16 Obscurity Is Your Friend 163

Chapter 17 Buy the Buybacks 169

Chapter 18 The 100,000% Club 179

Acknowledgments 201

Index 203

LOUIS NAVELLIER is one of Wall Street’s renowned growth investors. His newsletters, Breakthrough Stocks, Market 360, Accelerated Profits, Growth Investor, and Platinum Growth are read by more than 560,000 investors who rely on his stock-picking acumen that has been proven over decades in up markets and down. He is also the founder of Navellier & Associates, a money management firm headquartered in Reno, NV, with more than $1.4 billion in assets under management. Mr. Navellier is a frequent guest on Bloomberg Television, Fox News and CNBC.

Now that Wall Street is dominated by indexing, alternative investments, and private credit, stock picking seems to have gone out of style. Louis Navellier, however, remains one of its most distinguished and successful practitioners. Investors who followed his buy and sell ratings have topped the performance of the S&P 500 since 1997.

Mr. Navellier’s success has relied on combining a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a stock’s risks and opportunities. Historical returns from his quantitative analysis alone have delivered market beating results. However, his quantitative overlay—which relies on innovative applications of statistical measures for risk and reward—on fundamentally superior stocks is the cornerstone of his success and what separates Mr. Navellier from his peers on Wall Street.

Mr. Navellier makes his qualitative and quantitative analyses relevant to novice and sophisticated investors alike in The Sacred Truths of Investing and goes further than laying out a prescription for selecting stocks. In The Sacred Truths of Investing, Mr. Navellier provides context and perspective for investors, drawing on his nearly 50 years of experience on Wall Street by delving into the big ideas that have held sway, and which have determined the market’s direction for over a century.

With a friendly writing style and understated wit, The Sacred Truths of Investing earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of investors who seek proven methodologies to do what many erroneously claim cannot be done: beat the market.

EXPERT GUIDANCE TO PROFITABLE STOCK PICKING FROM A RENOWNED INVESTOR WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD

Backed by renowned stock picker Louis Navellier’s proven track record of beating the S&P 500 with his growth stock buy ratings, The Sacred Truths of Investing delivers a blueprint for experienced and beginner investors alike for understanding how economics, technology, geopolitics, Federal Reserve policy, and debt markets interconnect, enabling readers to position themselves for outsized returns on their growth stock selections.

In this book, Mr. Navellier draws on his experience starting with his family’s immigrant roots, to working with the FDIC during the savings and loan crisis, to the seminal moment in his career when he discovered the nascent concept of Alpha and put it to work in a quantitative analysis to find superior growth stocks. Since his earliest days in publishing when he dropped his newsletters into the mailbox late at night, to now, when more than 560,000 investors around the world read his Breakthrough Stocks, Market 360, Accelerated Profits, Growth Investor, and Platinum Growth newsletters, Louis Navellier has made investors wealthier.

Written in easy-to-understand language and exploring the types of concepts that matter most, The Sacred Truths of Investing is an essential resource for all investors seeking to make better, more informed investment decisions in the search for great growth stocks that will make a meaningful impact on their portfolios.