THE EASIEST PATH TO $ 1MILLION

When thinking about the easiest way to make a million dollars, the lottery comes near the top of my list. But after extensive research into this intriguing investment strategy, I discovered a couple of problems. First, lottery tickets lose money on average. Second, they have really high variance -- I could buy a lottery ticket every day for the rest of my life and still not win the top prize. In fact, if I did it for my next 250 lifetimes, I most likely wouldn''t win the top prize.

After 2,500 years, it would get pretty frustrating to lose every time. So a less-annoying strategy is to simply buy stocks on a regular basis and wait for them to become worth a bundle.

Two simple strategies
Between 1968 and 2002, the S&P 500 returned 6.5% annually. At this rate, if you were to invest $300 a month, you''d get to $1 million in about 46 years. So if you''re 20 and you start buying the SPDRs ETF, which mimics the S&P 500, you''ll be there by retirement. This is much better than 250 lifetimes.

On the other hand, it''s still a long time. I''d rather get there faster, so I''d prefer better-performing stocks. Luckily, it''s still easy to find stocks that have higher returns -- value stocks returned 11% a year over the same time period. That would reduce the time to $1 million from 46 to 33 years.

But you know, I''m really impatient. I''d prefer to make my $1 million even more quickly.

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A faster way
To do that, you must find even better-performing stocks. Consider:

Company Bought Sold Annual return

Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) 2004 Holding 14.5%

American Express 1994 Holding 20.7%

Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) 1996 Sept. 1998 11.2%

AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) 1997 Holding 17.9%

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) 2005 Holding 20.4%

MasterCard (NYSE: MA) 2006 Holding 118.5%


Aside from great returns, what do these stocks have in common? Two things.

First, they are all stocks selected by expert value investors. Comcast and American Express are holdings of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B), Warren Buffett''s company. Dow Chemical and AutoZone are two of Eddie Lampert''s picks -- a fellow lauded as the "next" Warren Buffett. Accenture and MasterCard are two companies recommended by Philip Durell, the lead analyst of our Inside Value newsletter. The "Bought" and "Sold" years in the table indicate both when these investors found the shares attractive enough to buy and when they decided that the potential upside was no longer great enough to justify maintaining their position.

Second, these stocks aren''t your typical companies. They''re much better. Every one of them is well known and dominant in its niche. These aren''t cigar butts. They''re excellent businesses that can provide superior returns for a long time.

And that''s the key to getting even better returns out of value stocks -- focusing on quality. Don''t just buy any value stock, but buy the best and strongest companies. In other words, wait until a superior company becomes cheap, and then buy it.

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How long with these stocks?
With these stocks, how long would it take to reach $1 million? Well, Buffett and Lampert both have returns of more than 20% annually. If you can duplicate their 20%-plus returns, you''ll be a millionaire after 22 years (and would have $10 million in 34 years). That''s one reason why I believe the best way to make a million in the stock market is by focusing your efforts on finding these stocks.

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