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Investing looks at the company, speculation looks at the market sentiment Investing involves investing in companies that are able to generate good returns for the money over the long run. Usually investing looks at the financial statements of the company, the management, its economic moats, etc to get a good idea of how well the company will grow and paying a reasonable price for that. Speculation on the other ......There's a fine line that we have to thread between investing and speculating, so I think that's important to know on roughly which side of the line we are staying on. As we have come to know, investing is something that brings about good returns in the long run while speculating focuses on short-term gains and bears a much higher risk of losing principle. Anyway, so in this post I'll be covering the differences between the two.