Investing with Giants: Tried and True Stocks that Have Sustained the Test of Time

• IBM
• Microsoft
• Coca-Cola
• General Motors
• Procter & Gamble
• McDonald’s
• Philip Morris
• Johnson & Johnson
• American Express
• Wal-Mart

Strategies for Building a Stable, Long-Term Portfolio–On the Shoulders of America’s Most Profitable, Proven Corporate Leaders

"Despite all that has happened in the stock market in recent years, Linda Mead has provided some solid reasons for becoming–and staying–a long-term investor in stocks."
–John F. Wasik, author, The Bear-Proof Investor

"Learn how to avoid the pitfalls that can ruin your retirement by Investing With Giants. Linda Mead’s guide is savvy yet friendly and easy to read. It’s an ideal book for those who want to invest in this new century by learning valuable lessons from the past."
–Jennifer Openshaw, author, What’s Your Net Worth?
founder, Women’s Financial Network, Inc.

Coca-Cola . . . Wal-Mart . . . IBM . . . Each of these companies represents the pinnacle of American corporate achievement. But of greater importance to today’s embattled investor, they represent today’s most successful corporations, blue-chip stocks around which any investor can construct a sane and sensible stock portfolio.

Investing With Giants examines how and why the stocks of America’s top corporations provide consistently superior value to investors in today’s stock-of-the-moment marketplace. Fascinating and instructive, it explains:

• How to pull the information that matters from a company’s annual report
• Ways in which past performance can help you estimate future results
• How benchmarking today’s top companies can reveal tomorrow’s rising stars

Despite occasional turbulence, the United States stock market is still history’s greatest wealth-building machine. Let Investing With Giants show you how to make that machine work for you by joining the millions of investors who have wisely trusted their futures to America’s proven corporate leaders and been rewarded with superior long-term performance and portfolio peace of mind.