I find stock research to be an art rather than a science although it's more based in science than art. It's an art to me as you can have many people researching the same freaking stock and everybody comes up with a different opinion on it. Whether it will outperform, buy, hold, underperform, sell or no opinion. That's 6 choices for any 1 stock that's analysed. That's before the price targets which vary as well. But that's only one part of the equation as you need to have the art of execution in order to make $$$. I started to wonder about my research methodology as ACCICB says I tend to find great companies to invest in. To be honest, I never really thought about how I spotted these companies. Maybe because I don't consciously do a like 123 and lo and behold, this is a great company. Sometimes I ......