The easy route to a winning stock portfolio

"What kind of stocks do you recommend?"

- Dhirendra Kumar

It's now been six years since we launched Value Research Stock Advisor. Ever since, this has been the most frequent question I’ve been asked, “What kind of stocks do you recommend?”

My answer to that question has always been that we recommend stocks that will make money for you. To some people, this sounds like a non-answer, as if I’m avoiding the question, but it’s not. I mean, I am avoiding saying the kind of things that some investors expect, but I’m doing so with careful thought. Investors expect to hear well-worn terms like dividend stocks, value stocks, growth stocks, large/mid-small or contrarian stocks or some such common way of classifying stocks. They await an answer that is filled with such jargon.

Since you are reading this magazine, you must be reading and watching other media about stock investing and constantly coming across these terms. They are fully justified in expecting such answers because that’s how things have always been done in the business of stock recommendations.

Plenty of stock advisories have different services for mid caps or value stocks or whatever. Like any other business where specialist professionals guide the casual customer, there is an upside to creating complexity and many different products. We don’t believe in that. That’s something that has been a guiding principle of Value Research over the long (almost three-decade) period that we have been guiding investors.

Let’s see what Value Research Stock Advisor does, why it’s different and why it makes sense for you.

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