Imagine being a billionaire and having to build a portfolio that will stand the test of time. How many stocks would you pick and how much would you put into teach of them? If you’re Nelson Peltz with $6 billion of capital under management the answer is 40.5% in a single stock.
Rounding out his portfolio are just 7 other holdings,
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Long ago, a conversation between two investors about the sluggish revenues of what was then Facebook went something along the lines of this: With all those users, why isn’t Facebook making more?
To which the second investor replied, do you really think they figured out how to get a billion users on their platform and don’t know how to make money from them?
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The S&P 500 has been on a monumental run over the past few months, climbing from near 4,100 last October to almost 5,000 more recently.
It’s a tough time for bulls and bears after such a sharp run up in a narrow time window. The options are to short the market at your peril or go long the market and risk a big drawdown.
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It’s easy to get distracted by the energy sector when Buffett is snapping up Occidental Petroleum shares with abandon and already owns so much of Chevron. But arguably both should be cast aside in favor of what might well be the #1 stock in the sector, Exxon Mobil.
With a market capitalization of around $400 billion and generating revenues of $338 billion,
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A wild west standoff is taking place right now in the housing market. Take southeast Florida as a prime example of the divide between buyers and sellers. In upscale Boca Raton, the median price of homes sold in many communities sits far below the listing prices of homes on sale.
Yet sellers are standing firm on price,
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Earlier in the week we covered a stock that had both impressive revenue growth and a handsome dividend, a rare combination that is hard to find in any industry. The stock was United Healthcare and it had a ten year history of growing year-over-year revenues in each quarter.
That inspired us to find other companies that are also growing yet pay a handsome dividend.
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A growth stock that pays a dividend may be the holy grail of investing because you get both the upswing in share price and the buffer of a steady payout when times get rocky.
Finding that unicorn is easier said than done because a lot of companies fall into one category or the other but not both.
Airbnb has been on a tear since 2020 when it reported losses of $3 billion in a single quarter. Lockdowns sparked concerns that the company would not survive a world without travel but soon hope emerged that life would return to normal and the financials soon followed.
A full U-turn followed with the company growing the top and bottom lines at a rapid pace.
History is littered with footwear stocks that have met their doom. Among the most prominent examples of recent years is Allbirds, which debuted on the public markets in 2021 and eclipsed $30 per share before plunging lower all the way to today’s price of around $1 per share.
About ten years ago, MercadoLibre was a holding in Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management firm. At the time, the Latin e-commerce firm had barely made a dent on the radars of top money managers and traded around $117 per share. Now sitting close to $1,795 per share, the holding has proven to be a massive winner for the asset management firm,
