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When it comes to investing, following the actions of top investors is a much smarter play than following their words. Take Warren Buffett, for example, who has a philosophy of betting on America long-term and a reputation for having a holding period of forever. You could be forgiven for becoming complacent about how long to hold a position if you listened to that advice.

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The wild statistics are flying now. At the depths of the price action on Friday, the bearish tape was as bad as any seen since the COVID lows.

2% corrections in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ and S&P 500 all signaled broad-based selling and the obliteration of just about every sector.

Nothing was left unscathed.

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Crowdstrike at this moment in time is the epitome of what makes investing challenging. The blackout experienced around the world due to an error in code left the reputation of the cybersecurity firm in tatters.

The company now faces two major hurdles to win back customer confidence. First, it has to win back the confidence of its clients and secondly it has to resolve the liabilities that may follow the global outage.

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The US debt now sits at $34 trillion and is growing by about $1 trillion every 100 days. A statistic came out recently that claimed 76% of all personal income tax is now going to service the national debt.

It’s for that reason Musk recently made the claim that the US is headed for bankruptcy.

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One of the more unexpected tailwinds for healthcare stocks in recent years has been the weight-loss frenzy brought about most notably by Ozempic.

Novo Nordisk’s drug was such a hit that the share price soared by 62% over the past year alone.  Yet it’s not the only game in town. Eli Lilly’s weight-loss drug,

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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) began humbly as a struggling textile mill but it has grown into a multinational conglomerate under the stewardship of Warren Buffett.

Now well on its way to a market capitalization of a trillion dollars, following in the footsteps of Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia, Berkshire Hathaway is the ultimate Warren Buffett stock.

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When the world needed to connect from home, Zoom didn’t disappoint. The video conferencing providers saw numbers skyrocket from 10 million in December 2019 to over 300 million in April 2020. Rocket-ship like growth highlighted Zoom’s capacity to scale and investors couldn’t buy enough of it.

Since then the stock has languished but maybe that’s about to change?

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Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ: AAOI) isn’t well known and why would it be trading at less than a half a billion dollars in valuation. But it has seen a surge recently in insider buying as those in-the-know seem to be betting on future prospects.

This small-cap company has positioned itself as a critical supplier to major data center operators and telecommunications firms,

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Imagine you had a checklist for when to buy a stock and as you look down it, every line item is check, check, check. That wouldn’t be too far away from the experience we had looking down through the Brady Corp metrics.

To begin with what on earth is Brady? Not many investors are in fact aware of this company that has a century plus long history. 

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Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) isn’t even two decades old but it has made more than a splash in disrupting the travel and hospitality industry. Famously, one tag line announced that the largest taxi firm in the world owns no taxis (Uber) and the largest accommodation in the firm (Airbnb) owns no real estate.

With a market cap still under $100 billion yet pumping out an astonishing $3.8 billion in free cash flow alone last year,

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