Join this Discussion Also, submit your poetry in the Poet's Corner , hosted by volunteers from the League of Canadian Poets. Analysts are the drudges who devote their lives to following the affairs of firms for their employers or clients. They swarm to annual meetings and listen avidly to conference calls with management.
Most analysts achieve conversational currency with their firms.
A minority are actually able to predict how the companies profits will vary in months ahead. In spite of what is at best an uneven record of predicting corporate profits, analysts are treated as oracles by press and public. But the value of the statements themselves is questionable. Seriously committed and thoughtful investors can read The Super Analysts to understand the mind set of the analysts who pilot stocks and markets. That alone could make the price of this provocative book worthwhile .