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At my prior job, I had a 403b through TIAA CREF and they would not let me move funds so long as I stayed in that job. After taking a new job (not for this reason), it was easy to move it to Vanguard. 
Ah, I'm screwed then as I'm a teacher and I'll be here until I retire. 

 
Is this CLOV fight real or just retaliation against Chamath?  A company named Hindenburg sounds like a short research group and looking to destroy something.  
CLOV/IPOC has not been a very liked deal the whole time. I only read the summary of the report, but certainly seems like valid returns. I think I had read an investigation rumored on other forums, so have stayed away. I guess this will test all the hot takes about short sellers being dead. SPACs should be pretty easy to short with their low float.

As an aside on Chamath, I'm a bit turned off by his disingenuous attacks on Robinhood while taking SoFi (IPOE) public.

 
Think I'm dumping my Gores SPACs (V and VI), both of which I was in early. I hate to do it. I'm sure one of them will end up announcing shortly afterwards. The number they have out there now is just unreal. They've stopped waiting for 1 to fill before firing up the next one. Which might be fine if it was 1. Or 2. I think they're up to about 10, and I'm not a fan of that approach.

If I do, I want to replace them with something still sub-$12 (sub-$11 would be better) with good management. If you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

 
Best advice I can offer is if someone suggest buying Amazon, kick them in the nads.  You'll get a better return taping the Wall Street Journal to the wall and throwing a dart.
What price do u need so you can turn your 5% and get out?   More importantly, does the shtick end too?

Sheesh.   :rolleyes:

 
Good morning.

Value/dividend picks today for those seeking current income, and some long term moderate growth. These stocks are highly defensive. 

MDU

EXC

VZ

GIS

GSK

PFE

LMT

These are not sexy in today's GME/AMC/SPAC/Bitcoin frenzy/roulette wheel casino market we see right now LOL.

These are real stocks, with real earnings, and real strong and growing dividends. 

Buy them with the utmost confidence for long term compounding and a defensive sleeve for your portfolio.  

Take care folks.
@Todem as always, really appreciate the tips.  Thanks to you I'm already in EXC (+14%) and PFE (+6%), and will look to trim some high fliers and rotate some money into some of these others.

Investment philosophy question - do you believe owning a mix of bond funds in retirement accounts is still advised?  Or could it almost be better to move that allocation to income plays (or an income fund) like some of the above?  I've got the typical 90/10 equity/bonds split in my retirement accounts, and the same for my current 401k contributions, but I'm wondering if that 10% is really just a missed opportunity.

Curious others' thoughts as well.

TIA!

 
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Ah, I'm screwed then as I'm a teacher and I'll be here until I retire. 
Maybe. I am a teacher, too, so I went from a school that used TIAA CREF to another one that did, too. It is possible that CREF is tight in not allowing folks to switch while the outfit your school uses does allow you to move them. I don't know the details. Probably worth a question to your HR person or call the investment firm directly to try to move that money.

 
buddy sent me this

Putting one on your radar. Ticker BOXL. Had recent insider buys and today they announced a successful phase one roll out in Texas. Anyone who knows anything about school curriculum will tell you Texas runs the show. Anyone the price is up but recent history would tell me we have a $2.50 to $4.00 price move soon. A lot of money just came in right now. I have 3000 shares at $1.67
Thought I'd search out the OP for this. (hey! search actually worked!)

Thx! :thumbup:  

Up 48% so far with room to run!

 
You and cos have played tag with last place lately  :boxing:

I'm a little salty to be in third place at 102%. But yeah, as a group we're killing it.
I should have just stuck with my first choice. Own them both but one dropped right before the new year and the other went up. Should have stuck with the one that dropped right before, helps with returns based on that date.

 
Not gonna advise on exit point but has a lot of room to grow.  I'll be in this until given a reason not to be and right now we are just getting started.
Nice! It makes up for me selling TLRY as a short term play for just a small jump compared to the leap it just made. It’s why I don’t day trade. I have a hard enough time deciding on long term plays. 

 
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@Todem as always, really appreciate the tips.  Thanks to you I'm already in EXC (+14%) and PFE (+6%), and will look to trim some high fliers and rotate some money into some of these others.

Investment philosophy question - do you believe owning a mix of bond funds in retirement accounts is still advised?  Or could it almost be better to move that allocation to income plays (or an income fund) like some of the above?  I've got the typical 90/10 equity/bonds split in my retirement accounts, and the same for my current 401k contributions, but I'm wondering if that 10% is really just a missed opportunity.

Curious others' thoughts as well.

TIA!
No....that 10% is not a missed opportunity at all. Having some fixed income in your portfolio is always advised. Whether that is bonds or even cold hard cash for a rainy day. 

Everything really depends on your age too and time horizon. 

There are some area’s I love in fixed income like emerging market debt, intermediate munis, GNMA (Ginnie Maes). So it is not bad to have fixed income.

For my more conservative types my current growth and income allocation is sitting at 65-35 stocks to bonds. Nothing wrong with this allocation. It will most of the time (not every time) limit that downside participation and have 35-40% less standard deviation (implied volatility) than the S&P 500. Now of course this also limits the upside too. But you sleep better at night when we have 20 plus percent downturns in the markets and you are down almost half that. 

Having a diversified portfolio is critical. Having small caps stocks is also important. I use funds for small caps. And if you had been in small caps you would have been very pleased last year even with the March swoon. I was pouring into small cap funds for my clients in March....and it paid off handsomely. I typically hold no more than 10% of my total portfolio in small caps. no more than 3-5% in emerging market equites and debt. I focus a lot more on large and mega cap growth, value and core stocks. And fill in the rest (small caps, fixed income, emerging markets) with best in class mutual funds that have demonstrated a minimum of 7-10 years of past performance (most have a lot more than that in my portfolio). I regularly monitor what these mutual funds are doing quarter to quarter and will fire them if they no longer do what I hire them to do. Things can change inside mutual funds (managers, investment policy, turnover ratio, fees etc) that warrant constant oversight from myself. 

Same with stocks of course.

Bottom line. Know your goals, your risk tolerance and time horizon so your risk management can be aligned inside your different buckets (IRA, Taxable account, short term accounts, 401K etc).

 
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I think PTON could pop after Thursday's earnings and guidance.

It's priced high, but is emerging as the biggest company in the home fitness area. This stock popped earlier this year after they announced they had bought Precor to help meeting production. 

Great management team and a stock that is worth just having in your portfolio to buy the dips.
Moving upward today ahead of the 5pm call. I have little doubt the Q4 numbers will be solid, I just hope they have a good story to tell around how they're addressing delivery delays/ramping up manufacturing capacity. If they can satisfy analysts on that issue it should pop to new highs.  

 
Moving upward today ahead of the 5pm call. I have little doubt the Q4 numbers will be solid, I just hope they have a good story to tell around how they're addressing delivery delays/ramping up manufacturing capacity. If they can satisfy analysts on that issue it should pop to new highs.  
I forget the exact numbers but I saw 3-4 weeks ago that the number of containers headed to the US was more than double. You should probably verify that. 

Full disclosure, I declared last Big Game that Peloton would be a great short as for most people they would become a clothes hanger like the Nordictrac. Oops, pandemic. 

 
Can we talk about the TLRY/APHA merger?  From what I'm seeing, the APHA shareholders will own 63% of the merged shares.  APHA is trading about $9 a share less than TLRY.  I'm not sure what that all means as I'm not too smart.  But where would you rather be with your money leading into the merger?  

 
@urbanhackto follow up on a couple of names I have in my PA for income, I like Ben Franklin Resources (BEN) which is trading at $26 and throws off 4.26% yield.  Stock tends to stay in its lane though it dropped to $14 when stocks crashed last year but has rallied since.  And, since I know you to be a man of high integrity and a heart of gold, this might resonate with you:

 

Anyhow, if you're looking for stocks that aren't going to be subject to wild swings (ordinarily) and will pay you each quarter a cash dividend, you could do a lot worse than BEN.


Another one I own is People's United Financial (PBCT) and is a little cheaper at $13.57 but has a juicy 5.27% yield.  Not sure how they are graded by our LGBTQRSTUV friends, but there's a couple of stocks I use for income to go along with things I don't know what they do.
Boring old People's +4% today.  Looking forward to the Feb. 15th pay date on that juicy 5.09% dividend yield.  Should cover the Feb. 14th meal for me and Mrs:  Korean takeout with a nice bottle of Malbac for her and a six pack of pFriem IPA for me.  :banned:

 

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