# The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/intelligent-investor/

4 people recommended The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham in Hacker News comments and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 12 months, in 4 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

2 of the 4 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B”.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a framework for reasoning about companies and understanding value investing, though one commenter found little value in reading it alongside another book.

Summary written by Claude from 7 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Teaches value investing and company reasoning (2 comments in the sample): "Any of these books are a good antidote to that because they teach a framework to reason about companies." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876248)) "to understand value investing properly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45868500))
- Great book, recommended by readers (2 comments in the sample): "I highly recommend that book although truth be told that I haven't read more than the first 50-100 pages" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142403)) "Intelligent investor is a great book though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142888))

## Other investing books people recommend

- [Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre](https://hackerapproved.com/p/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/): 6 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize
- [The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle](https://hackerapproved.com/p/little-book-of-common-sense-investing/): 2 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize
- [One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch](https://hackerapproved.com/p/one-up-on-wall-street/): 2 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham", https://hackerapproved.com/p/intelligent-investor/ (4 recommend, 0 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.