Introduction: what this book expects to accomplish -- Investment versus speculation: results to be expected by the intelligent investor -- The investor and inflation -- A century of stock-market history: the level of stock prices in early 1972 -- General portfolio policy: the defensive investor -- The defensive investor and common stocks -- Portfolio policy for the enterprising investor: negative approach -- Portfolio policy for the enterprising investor: the positive side -- The investor and market fluctuations -- Investing in investment funds -- The investor and his advisors -- Security analysis for the lay investor: general approach -- Things toconsider about per-share earnings -- A comparison of four listed companies -- Stock selection for the defensive investor -- Stock selection for the enterprising investor -- Convertible issues and warrants -- Four extremely instructive case histories -- A comparison of eight pairs of companies -- Shareholders and managements: dividend policy -- "Margin of safety" as the central concept -- Postscript -- Appendixes