Quote from Fractals 'R Us:
I had that experience when Litton Industries had a dispute with the Navy about something.. their stock got hammered. One day I read a newspaper article about how Litton had enough cash to pay off all their debt and expand the business by 30%.. I bought it from single digits up to $20 or so then used the proceeds to fund a business that never made it.. Successes like that can make one think they are above average when it was mostly luck.
That stock Litton Industries run by Roy Ash and Tex Thornton enabled my parents to retire to FL. I too loved that stock! Doubt many here even heard about the army guys who sold their "services" to Ford and then those 2 formed LI. They called them the whiz kids
Woody