New Year, new stocks

So it's a new year and it's time for new stocks in a portfolio! What are you all looking at!

Currently (tommorrow) I'll be choosing to have a purchasing mix of:

Activision Blizzard (CoD)
T-Mobile
UnderArmour or Nike
More Starbucks

And I'm looking at Wendy's

I haven't found any stocks amazing for their price range.. I don't have too much to invest with so I can't go stocks that are priced @100+ because it wouldn't make sense with the commission as of now.. if I had more I would..


Activision long-term chart looks great and I really think they dominate in Video Games and now they are challenging the video game market w/ getting into sports

T-mobile's expansion is crazy ridiculous they are growing like there is no tomorrow & even beat expectations with new users added... Plus I really like what they do for their customers ( i am one of them)

Underarmour I really like because its getting into the new fad of the health craze and they have a bunch of technology from pairing with HTC

but nike also did the stock split and nike is like starbucks to me, they will never die...name brand recognition... price manipulation (in terms of charign whatever they can for their products and get away with it) Aquiring lebron to replace Jordon in the long-term market... (In terms of product line for the younger generations)

I may get UA but I like nike because I can get more nike than UA...

and then starbucks...because starbucks is amazing....
Dunkins is bearish, GMC is going private... They own teavana..Only other real competitor is david's tea.. they basically have an oligopoly in America... Plus they are serving liquor now in their cafes..oh and yeah.. international/worldwide...


For tech which I am watching and are in my pretend portfolio because i dont have the capital to purchase them right now...


Apple.... but you are better off waiting until after Q1 to purchase them unless you want to try and bet what is going to happen...
Netflix...Crazy international expansion and because they got downgraded by a firm they are even cheaper right now
Amazon..because it got downgraded.. which is absurd because they are the largest clouding company...

and just for shits and giggle

COKE - cocola bottling company, that stock is probably one of the best stocks in 2015 that is hidden from people's knowledge.. go look at its return.... YTD of last year...


What are all you guys doing with your portfolios?

 

Starting it! still in the process of learning, but i'm going to take a dive soon into probably netflix and starbux. Can't learn without doing eventually right? Netflix is supposed to start like 16 new original series this year and some are saying might turn into just a broadcast station fox type organization in the future.

 

yeah just be very cautious currently because the market is extremely volitile. Netflix you should honestly be good with, and starbucks will be fine, starbucks is an extremely long-term stock..

& i didn't know that about netflix really good to know about being a broadcasting station, they have so much potential.. and brand recognition..

Just #1 rule of investing is Buy LOW sell HIGH &&& DONT GET EMOTIONAL over your portfolio --> some days it will be down some days it will be up, choose wisely if you're going to manage your own portfolio...

 

The new year is fucking killing me.

My issue on Netflix (not telling you not to buy, just keep in mind) is that in my opinion, there's a lot of "dumb money" in the security. There's a lot of air between it's real value and the stock value is trades at (again in my opinion) so while this doesn't mean it won't make you money - it just means it can really fall a lot. I said the same thing about chipotle to a buddy of mine. There's a lot of dumb money in chipotle too, and their issue is absolutely destroying their stock price. granted, its a pretty big issue

 

i agree with SS on netflix; it's in the bucket of things i wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, along with twitter.

UA is interesting, i remember taking a hard look at that about 15 months ago, but i don't remember what dissuaded me from buying in. i own SBUX though i just bought in two weeks ago (rip 10% of share price, happy new year) so not sure how that'll go, but i don't blame you for buying a few shares

i don't see anything special about blizzard, wendys, or t-mobile. i sold my whole apple position a few weeks ago, and i thought about buying amzn (and kicked myself for not doing it a year ago at 300 :s) then as well but decided against it. i think it's overvalued now, even though i really like the company and their products

COKE is interesting... what makes you think it's not overvalued/worthwhile to buy into now? also it's really hard to get COKE info because KO is such a big company lol

 

You were totally right about twitter btw. I'm kicking myself for that.

I do like Kate Spade for the new year

 

$GPRO for the comeback

 

i know nothing about it. i'll look at it this weekend. also i just realized kate spade is actually a person and not just a brand

also @op. how much are you investing? it sounds like fees are killing you so i'm guessing that it's not thousands and thousands, so i just wanted to say that you should definitely consider fees as losses; $7 spent each time you buy and sell, especially if you trade short-term, adds up

 

Gopro is a lost cause its just like fitbit --> a product that became a stock...

anyways onto the discussion on netflix, twitter, amazon, & apple, tmobil.

Twitter is a dying breed but you should not compare it to netflix at all.. its another "tech" company, but to me tech is just a virtual world and i put in perspective of the equvilent of what it is in the real world, and twitter is just the equiv to me of a local newspaper... its absolute ass i bought it @ 30 listening to the anaylst rather than going with my own instinct..

Anyways onto netflix.. netflix has a lot going for it.. the 2 main things that stand out for me is the expansion globally... that is tremendous potential for revenue and sales espesially in europe where television is completely different than the UK & the US.... but netflix has name-brand recognition assosiated with it... its become a brand & thats always a good aspect to it; its management & PR is great espesially with offering maternity leave to workers.. amazing... normal accouting & finance measures have not met with the tech world & that's why there is this idea of "over-valuation" in a lot of tech but in reality they are valued pretty fairly... anyways you don't have to have netflix but its a great stock to own IMO, but wait until all this volatility & q1 goes through before entering..

anyways onto apple & amazon..

amazon is downgraded right now, but it really shouldn't be.. amazon may seem like a retailer but its main business is cloud hosting.. and its DOMINATING.. the largest cloud provider... you guys should research it up.. my buddy is a big fan-boy of amazon lol...

anyways for apple. im a die hard apple fan. The stock has taken a beating because of all these iphone supply cutbacks..doesn't mean anything; they just have excess inventory... lets see how q1 goes.. last quarter.. they BEAT revenue estimates & the stock took a beating because a iphone sales were down.. which to me is clearly absurd... because if their main product GOES DOWN.. but revenue BEATS & EXCEEDS expectations..that means they are GROWING in other areas of their business and not having to SOLEY RELY on iphone sales....plus they are going into the car industry...and with beats owned by them they have added to their eco-system... and it was a great addition to their company because with all the beats radio and sponsorship is now owned by apple ... plus they amount of cash they have on hand is ridiculas and another couple hundred million comes their way from the samsung dispute that they won lol...But their stock is risky because the market is devaluing it for no real reason in my opinion.. but to each their own... oh yeah and samsung cut outlook for the year.... so its not just apple having a struggle lol


Tmobile is going to explode.... they are killing their competitors growth & even their own expectations... they have great pr and management at this point, they give you your phone unlocked... which is HUGE... verizon & sprint lock your phones so you cant take your phone to another carrier if you purchase through them... unlimited 3g data for no extra charge... INTERNATIONAL CALLING, TEXTING, & DATA at no extra charge.. that is HUGE... they are expanding their towers they now have 2x the coverage they have before... and a great thing they were the first to come out with it wifi-calling... so you can make a call from any wifi hotspot...no extra charge... now your data isnt used by a bunch of services..spotify,pandora.. etc.. its crazy they are really killing the game.. but a good sign is the amount of people that are switching over to them; and their stock has actually remained stable through this drop we have had this past week over china & oil concerns (which is absurd to me).

Activision is going to my baby for the year i think...
they have an oligopoly in the C.O.D franchise.. just them & treyarch...
They just purchased MLG to compete in the market for sports video games.
It had a return of 40% last year....
They own candy crush..
the biggest thing i like is LOW DEBT... really good sign...

for COKE its totally a weird stock i have no idea what the hell is fueling it... but it had a 100% return in 1 year last year...1 YEAR.... and its stability is crazy.. it almost feels like its being minipulated.. that's kinda why i want to buy it.. lol, but as to the over-valuedness of it i don't think its over-valued tbh i think its a buying price... when it was @220 it was overvalued, but idk really thats a total gamble stock for me


anyways I ended up buying 10 shares of activision and waiting on the rest until the market settles itself out... way too much volitility right now

 

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