Fine company, but more of a value play these days. I hold some shares, ran some numbers on 2 year returns of my holdings and was surprised my AAPL finished 13th out of my 14 holdings at 68% (6% for last 6 months) return; my best was NVDA at 745% (47% for last 6 months).Berkshire announced today that they increased their stake in Apple by 23.3% recently. It makes Apple their largest holding.
I think Warren has been doing the math I've been doing.
Yes but a very undervalued value play. And I'm ok with that as Apple will continue to buy back shares and retire them.
I’m glad to have AAPL as one of my holdings, but after taking my rare look at overall returns, I was surprised that 3 of my ETFs- PPA, ROBO & FEMS along with 7 other stocks I hold beat AAPL’s return over three year, one year and six month time frames. Hope your $200 fall prediction is correct, we both benefit.
Wish I had bought it, got some RTN and BAC this week, love no brainer stocks (at least for now)!
GE is selling it's international lighting business with plans for more sales which I like and others seem to like as it's getting a bid today up 2%.
When I served in Iraq the second time, I remember Insteel Industries well. I upped my investment and it paid off handsomely.
Indeed. As Mark Cuban has said, most robotic companies are foreign and the US needs to get with it. IRBT with its vacuums and ISRG surgical robots are two that hit it big in the US, both seem fully priced now, though. CVRS is at least worth a close watch, FDA moves soooooo slowly in approving medical prescriptions and devices.
Investing in consumer staples takes a huge pair right now. It's tough when buying PG at a great price to watch it drop a few more dollars. I think the diversification is worth it in the end.
DK may still have some juice in the energy sector, Nashville based refiner.
Noticed PDYPY is merging with FanDuel after the legalization of Sports gambling in the U.S.
Yeah, both have taken hits in the market recently. I'm looking long-term. GIS and PG are so attractive because of P/E ratio and dividend.
+1 on Seeking Alpha. Many interesting and well-written articles. I also like Dividend Channel for ideas.
Indeed, PE on it not great, but I like the potential, have a London contact who said they are crazy betters over there, even bet on plays during games.
You are wise, I did fine until crunched by dot com like many others, it’s very hard to be a patient investor, I’ve had a mix of conservative and risky, hasn’t paid off in retirement as well as I hoped, but up this year. I pick good stocks, my selling is the problem!
Amazon will kill retailers also. lol
Taking a profit is never a bad thing. I just try to not get too crazy with accumulating cash. In my brokerage account I've been spending some of the money frankly. In my IRA, I look for levels to get right back in. I'm up to 10% cash in one of them and itching to buy. Some of the names I own aren't bargains minus MPC so I've been looking elsewhere.
When I was working, I was able to slowly accumulate about $100,000 in a taxable account of stocks in addition to my 403B contributions (converted to Ameritrade IRA in retirement). Thus at early retirement (59) I was able to supplement my pension and not having to touch the IRA for several years, only paying capital gains as I sold off the taxable account and drew out of a smaller tax free Roth IRA. Then social security kicked in, so I’m fine and have fun investing our IRAs, except I now want more than 10% Cash! I can’t say for sure it was the greatest strategy, but it sure worked for me.
We accumulated about 25 shares of AMZN in my wife’s IRA, I get nervous but she wisely won’t let me sell it. The stock has seemed too high every time we bought it, but her avg cost of $1,155 looks good now. I hold two good ones a little like that, ALGN and ADBE, seem too high priced, keep going up, and I probably should accumulate more on price drops.
