There are typically two participants in the stock market, those who enter and end each day on a flat note for their portfolios (meaning no positions) and rely on short-term intraday trading strategies to grow their capital, and then those who are out there hunting for the sort of businesses that will allow for a less volatile path forward for wealth creation. Those who focus on the long-term usually care about two things in their search for their next investment. First of all, the company they choose to buy ...