* 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.
6장 Stalking the Tenbagger, 스무 두 번째 시간입니다.
# Here is a company that has done everything right—made sensible
acquisitions; cut costs; developed successful new products; rid itself of bumbling
subsidiaries; avoided getting suckered into the computer business (after selling its
mistake to Honeywell)—and still the stock inches along. That’s not GE’s fault.
The stock can’t help but inch along since it’s attached to such a huge enterprise.
☞ acquisitions : the department in a company that is responsible for taking over other businesses
☞ bumbling : behaving in a way that is confused and not properly organized
☞ subsidiaries : a company that is owned by a larger company
☞ sucker: to trick someone into doing something
☞ inch : to move somewhere very slowly and gradually, or to make something do this
Maggie tapped impatiently on the steering wheel and inched slowly forward.
A dark shadow inched its way along the wall.
주가가 꿈쩍하지 않는다, 미동도 않는다, 거의 움직이지 않는다, 는 표현을 어떻게 했나요?
the stock inches along.
1인치, 2인치 할 때의 인치입니다. 인치는 2.54cm입니다. 그러니까 엄청나게 둔하게 움직인다는 이야기입니다.
# 인치(inch)는 야드파운드법과 미국 단위계의 길이 단위이다. 세계적으로 통용되는 표준 1 인치는 정확히 2.54 센티미터이고 1 피트의 1/12로 정의된다.
☞ 근데 그건 GE의 잘못이 아니고, 주가가 거대기업에 딱 달라 붙어 있기 때문(since it’s attached to such a huge enterprise)이라고, 피터 린치는 말하네요!
# GE has 900 million shares outstanding, and a total market value of $39
billion. The annual profit, more than $3 billion, is enough to qualify as a
Fortune 500 company on its own. There is simply no way that GE could
accelerate its growth very much without taking over the world. And since fast
growth propels stock prices, it’s no surprise that GE moves slowly as La Quinta
soars.
☞ qualify as : to become a member of a particular profession after a period of training or study
# Everything else being equal, you’ll do better with the smaller companies. In
the last decade you’d have made more money on Pic ’N’ Save than on Sears,
although both are retail chains. Now that Waste Management is a multibilliondollar
conglomerate, it will probably lag behind the speedy new entries in the
waste-removal field. In the recent comeback of the steel industry, shareholders in
the smaller Nucor have fared better than shareholders in U.S. Steel (now USX).
In the earlier comeback of the drug industry, the smaller SmithKline Beckman
outperformed the larger American Home Products.
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