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Stock Thread 2018
- Thread starter Dubbington
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Curious how you see value in pgf when it’s gone up 30% in 5 years. Is it just a small part of your portfolio? I have no idea about it so I’m just curious when listed earlier in this thread people were talking about the vanguards and those seem to have made 200% in the past 5 years. Just looking for some insight
Archimedes
Fire Watcher
Yeah, they beat earnings estimates for a quarter. They must be a buy! Except for the fact that they're already trading at 13x revenue and 37x operating earnings. What a deal! Buy on the dip!
Reli
Well-known member
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alien
AAPL at $156 looks tempting. Did they start their post new tax plan buying back stock yet?
afm199
Well-known member
I don't necessarily think about that. It's a preferred stock ETF that pays a really nice dividend. I see the coming years as great for the financial industry and love the monthly income. Remember, I'm not worried about buying a stock that will be the next Berkshire Hathaway in 30 years. I won't be here then.
jt2
Eschew Obfuscation
Take a look at Ford (F). They got hammered recently on short term earnings, and currently have a 5.75% forward div yield.
Schnellbandit
I see 4 lights!
Apple is a decent buy. Upside is sitting right there for the taking (Homepod), they can sell to their own customers like no one else can.
I don't like Apple for reasons other than their performance but business is business so I have their stock. Dividends are always nice. Since I've owned shares since the teens in price, easy for me to say but so goes.
afm199
Well-known member
Depends. Most big corps (At&T, Verizon, Ford, etc.) pay four quarterly dividends. Everyone has their own dates, but there are two that are important: ex dividend date means the day when the dividend becomes due. You can't buy stock on ex div and get a dividend until next ex div day. Pay date is simply the date that they pay, which varies. Some companies pay a couple weeks after ex div date, some a month or more. Some funds (CEF's) pay monthly dividends. Some pay once a year. There's no set rule.
O, if you hold the shares directly ( unlikely) they dividend is paid to you. If you hold them through a broker, the dividend is paid to your broker and your broker pays it to you. That's most people.
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SteelerFanatic
TEAM BARF-MW2
Most places have the option to reinvest your dividends. That’s a good way to continue building.
True. Although I have one stock I am quite heavily in. Don't want to sell it since it's doing well. So get dividends and invest in other stocks.
SteelerFanatic
TEAM BARF-MW2
Yes same theory that I don’t invest in my own company. I already rely on them for my salary I shouldn’t rely on them for my retirement.
When my stock vests I sell and buy other things.
When my stock vests I sell and buy other things.
Cycle61
What the shit is this...
Ours has a three year holding period to get our employer match. So other than the fact that I've only been there ten months, all good.
Archimedes
Fire Watcher
I wasn't insinuating that they had only beat this quarter, just the nonsense of the headlines and jumping on it as if it has much of any bearing on whether to buy or sell a stock. What if all that and more is already priced into the stock?
nVidia's EV/LTM Revenue multiple, not it's valuation - it's multiple, has almost doubled in the last twelve months, and it's EV is up by almost 150%. The company would need to have its workers shitting $100's all quarter for four quarters for that to make any sense. nVidia stock in insanely high priced right now. Oh and much of their growth/outperformance is due to demand from bitcoin mining. No risk in that...
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Bet it doesn't surprise you to hear that I hold paper certificates for one of my long-term stock holdings
What happens if the lights go out? What happens if next-level hackers wipe out online brokerage systems? This all-pixel existence seems extremely precarious to me. The younger generations have adopted unwarranted trust in technology, its creators and its facilitators. Best to minimize counter-party risk at every possible chance, I say.
Perhaps everyone should get at least one of their long-term stock positions registered in their own name instead of "street name". Request a paper stock certificate (while you still can). Maybe for that one super-solid blue chip company that has the best chance to stay in business "forever". Just a hunch!
afm199
Well-known member
Bet it doesn't surprise you to hear that I hold paper certificates for one of my long-term stock holdings
What happens if the lights go out? What happens if next-level hackers wipe out online brokerage systems? This all-pixel existence seems extremely precarious to me. The younger generations have adopted unwarranted trust in technology, its creators and its facilitators. Best to minimize counter-party risk at every possible chance, I say.
Perhaps everyone should get at least one of their long-term stock positions registered in their own name instead of "street name". Request a paper stock certificate (while you still can). Maybe for that one super-solid blue chip company that has the best chance to stay in business "forever". Just a hunch!
For the love of God, man. Dump those stocks and invest in Gold. The market is going to crash!
On of my go-to gold stocks is Barrick. I would rather pick paper over physical because of how easy it is to liquidate.
it CAN have an inverse correlation to the economy. Obviously that is not saying once the market crashes ABX shoots up. But it is a stock I used to hedge some losses in the past.
it CAN have an inverse correlation to the economy. Obviously that is not saying once the market crashes ABX shoots up. But it is a stock I used to hedge some losses in the past.
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