INDEX
A
- Abohbot Davis, Elizabeth “Biggie,”
- Air Products
- Airbus
- Akers, John
- Albright, Dick
- American Airlines
- American International Group (AIG)
- analysis of
- bailout of
- bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, effect on
- legal problems (2004–2005)
- letter to shareholders
- valuation of
- American Saint-Gobain
- Analytical skills
- Avon
B
- Background, author
- analytical skills
- Westinghouse Science Talent Search
- confidence
- contrarian, willingness and ability to be
- education
- emotions, control of
- fun
- motivation to succeed financially
- pragmatic goals and ambition
- analytical skills
- Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad
- Behavioral economics
- Berkowitz, Howard
- Boeing
- defense business
- earnings per share model
- origin of company
- 787 program
- battery problem in
- pension expense analysis
- Porter's five forces test
- projection of defense segment profits
- shares, valuation of
- Boeing, William Edward
- Buffett, Warren
C
- Capacity, adding to
- Cavendish, Henry
- Cayley, Sir George
- Centex Coporation
- growth rate of
- housing crisis
- housing starts, rate of
- boom in
- monitoring progress of
- sale of securities of
- Central National–Gottesman Corporation (CN-G)
- Charles, Jacques
- Citicorp
- Coca-Cola
- Cohn, Gary
- Common stocks
- permanent loss, minimizing risk of
- reward-to-risk attractiveness of
- Confidence, investor
- Contrarians
- willingness and ability to be
- Corbin, Todd
- Crude oil, price of (2014)
D
- da Vinci, Leonardo
- Davis, Samuel “Boss,”
- Davis Lewis, Leonora “Lennie,”
- “The Death of Equities” (BusinessWeek)
- Delta Airlines
E
- Earnings per share (EPS)
- Eastern Airlines
- Elgart, Jack, letter to
- annual returns
- central strategy
- patterns and strategies
- risks, controlling
- self-confidence
- value investing
- Eller, Tim
- Emotions, controlling
- panic selling
- self-discipline
- Erickson, Donald
- Ethical Culture Society
- Ever-Normal Granary
F
- Fabre, Henri
- “Fallacy of composition,”
- Fettig, Jeff
- Form 10-K
- Friedkin, Ken
- Fulton, Robert
G
- Galileo
- Gangestad, Nick
- General Electric (GE)
- Gerstner, Lou
- Giffard, Henry
- Goldman Sachs
- balance sheet
- earnings per share
- Form 10-K
- valuation of
- Gordon, Will
- Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation
- Greenberg, Maurice “Hank,”
- Greenhaven Associates
- Grossfeld, Jim
- Growth stocks, boom-bust of
H
- Haenlein, Paul
- Harris, Robert
- Hatch, Bob
- Heat, Frank
- Hedge funds
- Hellendale, Bob
- Herwald, Kurt
- Hirsch, Larry
- Home Depot
I
- IBM
- cost structure
- early retirement programs
- IBM Personal Computer
- System/360
- valuation of shares of
- Interstate Bakeries
- business fundamentals of
- sale of
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
- Investing, approach to
- common stocks
- permanent loss, minimizing risk of
- reward-to-risk attractiveness of
- confidence, investor
- contrarians
- emotions, controlling
- panic selling
- self-discipline
- common stocks
J
- J. C. Penney
- Johnson & Johnson
K
- Kahneman, Daniel
- Kelleher, Herb
- Keynes, John Maynard
- King, Rollin
- Klarman, Seth
- Kodak
- Kozlowski, Dennis
L
- Langley, Samuel Pierpont
- Lennox
- Lowe's
- competition with Home Depot
- effect of housing crisis on
- home improvement retailers, study of
- housing industry, study of
- estimating housing crisis recovery
- foreclosures, effect on housing market
- historical data
- meeting for analysts and investors
- projected operating profit margins
- revised earnings model for
- “road map” projections for 2015
- valuation of
M
- Manley, Charles M.
- Maroney, Terah
- Marx, Tony
- Menschel, Bob
- Mohawk
- Montgolfier, Joseph and Jacques
- Motivation to succeed financially
N
- Nafziger, Ralph Leroy
- Niblock, Robert
- Nifty-Fifty
- Northwest Airlines
O
- Ogunlesi, Abebayo (“Bayo”)
- Opel, John
- Overlock, Mike
P
- Pacific Southwest Airlines
- Pan Am Airlines
- Panic selling
- Polaroid
- Porter, Michael
- five forces test
- Praxair
Q
- Quimby, Harriet
R
- Romo, Tammy
- Ross, Arthur
- Rotenstreich, Jon
- Roth, Paul
- Rudenstine, Neil
S
- Sampter, Michael
- Sampter Wachenheim, Elvie Grace
- Savings and loan (S&L) crisis
- Schwartz, Harvey
- Sears Roebuck
- Self-discipline
- Short-term fundamentals and investment returns, focus on
- Southwest Airlines
- earnings per share, analysis of
- fundamentals of competitors, analysis of
- motto, arm-wrestling match for use of
- origin of company
- reasonableness of projections, analysis of
- share price
- ticket prices
- Staggers Act
- Starr, Cornelius Vander
- Steinhardt, Mike
- Stephenson, George
- Strudler, Bob
- Sullivan, Martin
- Summer, Bill
- Supply and demand, elasticity of
T
- 3M
- Trends, following
- TWA
U
- Union Pacific (Railroad)
- earnings model for 2006
- effect of 2001–2002 recession
- increased demand for rail
- progress, monitoring
- United Airlines
- UNIVAC computer
- Upton, Lou
- U.S. energy policy, need for
- U.S. Home Corporation
W
- Wachenheim, Edgar
- Wachenheim, Edgar Jr.
- Wallace, Henry A.
- Watson, Tom
- Watt, James
- Westervelt, George Conrad
- Westinghouse Science Talent Search
- Whirlpool Corporation
- annual report (2008)
- earnings estimate model
- fundamentals, study of
- Hefei Sanyo, acquisition of
- history of
- Indesit, acquisition of
- Korean competitors
- operating leverage, analysis of
- Wright, Wilbur and Orville
X
- Xerox
Z
- Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand
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