Many investors are looking for home run stocks — the kinds of assets that will quadruple in value in a short period of time. But just as DePodesta determined, the problem with swinging for the fences is that you strike out a lot. In both baseball and investing, home runs are very exciting, but they’re also very rare and can be very costly.
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