* 전설적인 펀드 매니저 피터 린치의 "전설로 떠나는 월가의 영웅" 원서를 통해 투자공부와 영어공부, 두 마리 토끼를 모두 잡기 위한 컨텐츠입니다.
* 원서 제목은 "One up on wall street" 입니다.
오늘은 8장입니다. 8장 The Perfect Stock, What a Deal!
# As you already know if you were fortunate enough to have bought some,
Waste Management, Inc. is up about a hundredfold.
Waste Management is a better prospect even than Safety-Kleen because it has
two unthinkables going for it: toxic waste itself, and also the Mafia. Everyone
who fantasizes that the Mafia runs all the Italian restaurants, the newsstands, the
dry cleaners, the construction sites, and the olive presses also probably thinks that
the Mafia controls the garbage business. This fantastic assertion was a great
advantage to the earliest buyers of shares in Waste Management, which as usual
were underpriced relative to the actual opportunity.
☞ unthinkables : something that is impossible to imagine
☞ assertion : a definite statement or claim that something is true
# Maybe the rumors of the Mafia in waste management kept away the same
investors who worried about the Mafia in hotel/casino management. Remember
the dreaded casino stocks that are now on everybody’s buy list? Respectable
investors weren’t supposed to touch them because the casinos allegedly were all
Mafia. Then the earnings exploded and the profits exploded, and the Mafia
faded into the background. When Holiday Inn and Hilton got into the casino
business, it suddenly was all right to own casino stocks.
☞ dreaded : frightening or worrying
☞ allegedly : if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
# (7) THERE’S SOMETHING DEPRESSING ABOUT IT
In this category my favorite all-time pick is Service Corporation International
(SCI), which also has a boring name. I got this pick from George Vanderheiden,
the onetime Fidelity electronics analyst who’s done a great job running the
Fidelity Destiny Fund.
☞ all-time : used for comparing someone or something with all the other people or things of the same type that have ever existed
# Now, if there’s anything Wall Street would rather ignore besides toxic waste,
it’s mortality. And SCI does burials.
For several years this Houston-based enterprise has been going around the
country buying up local funeral homes from the mom-and-pop owners, just as
Gannett did with the small-town newspapers. SCI has become a sort of
McBurial. It has picked up the active funeral parlors that bury a dozen or more
people a week, ignoring the smaller one-or two-burial parlors.
☞ mortality : the number of deaths within a particular area, group etc
☞ burial : the process of putting a dead body into a grave in the ground at a funeral
burial rites
a burial mound
☞ parlor : a name used by some businesses for the shop or room where they do their business
Jean had her hair cut at the beauty parlour downstairs.
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