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The whole world runs on tech. Everyone buys goods and services from the qqq companies. These are 100 of the biggest best run companies in the world. They have no debt tons of cash great products and operate in virtual monopolies. One can't put together a better portfolio. You don't invest in the past but in the future. 2021 is a lot different world then 1999. No brainier portfolio buy and hold 50% SPY 50% QQQ. This portfolio, over time, will out perform most managed portfolios.
Hey man. Been a subscriber for a few months. Thanks for existing and providing your expertise. I acquired over 100 shares of QQQ June of last year @ $242 and am up over 50%. I have no plan of selling QQQ any time soon.
If you only had a few hundred to spread around and add a few bucks every month, would you put $100 in qqq? Or is there a better/equal etf? Thanks. I’m ok with risk, just don’t want to put money into two etfs that are essentially the same in risk and returns/growth potential or basically have the same holdings.
QQQ strikes me as excellent for holding for growth when retirement is 15-20 years away, though since its a strong options platform, hanging onto QQQ as we approach retirement and switching our strategy on the ETF from growth to income by writing the wheel might be the way to go?
I can't access my Roth for 35 years, so I choose QQQ over an SP500 index for it's long term higher growth potential. Big tech has sooo much cash right now, I want to load up on those companies- Apple has 95B of FCF and MSFT is raising divs and doing 60B in buybacks. QYLD and QYLG efts use covered calls on QQQ shares to return monthly income.
People forget that it is possible to lower your cost basis on ETFs. Therefore if a person bought the dips on QQQ,they would have recovered much sooner than 16 years.
Yes you are right, Only Issue here is, when portfolio on qqq crash 80% ,would that person have guts put more money! If it is something like S&P 500 I would still keep buy because I know market would eventually recover, when it comes to one particular sector its bit hard have faith if it evill will recover.
Currently I have 50% in FOCPX & 50% in ARKK. Wha do you think about ARKK? Still a buy in the long term? Was thinking about selling my ARKK and buying QQQ but selling low and buying high isn’t a good investment habit.
"Don't be dumb, tab the thumb..." Okay, but like, I'm feeling really stupid right now. What's this about? "On the video." Ahhh... makes WAY more sense now.
@@uverex251 good question! so if you put that on the same timeline that I shared in the video, from 2016-2020 the $10,000 investment grows to $35k with QQQ which is $5,000 more than VUG comparatively.
IIRC, some people called it “cubes” or “qubes” in the early days (maybe they still do) because of the three Qs. I first bought QQQ in the late 90s and never sold despite the tech bubble bursting, and have the returns you talked about (I can’t claim being any genius, though. I also owned Microsoft and Amazon separately and sold those while I also should have held on). Good video.
Hey 👋 I am currently invested in QQQ I invest on these on a monthly basis From the last 3 months I have been buying 1 unit every month Is that a good strategy in the long term ? And also is it better to invest at the end of the month given that market slows down ?
Hi @Kostas So far going good given the market situation But for the last month I have not invested in QQQ as I felt it was over inflated So that money I'm saving it to invest when it drops
Totally your call! But as far as a return, even 1 share will return the same percentage, of course the more money you have in a portfolio gives it more room to grow by the mathematics of it all, but if you only have $5, $10, or the cost of 1 share available to invest, it's not a reason to not consider investing (not direct financial advice).
I heard this argument yesterday. I understand buying into an ETF that performs similarly or better with a lower expense ratio, it would be silly not to but a 0.20% expense ratio isn't terrible either. QQQ is cheaper than VGT though; I just wonder what the differential is in terms of math, are they equal or is one better?
@@91wheelz The overall stock price isn't really the number to look at; rate of return and expense ratios are more important to consider. The type of ETF is big as well. VGT has a cheaper expense ratio and stronger returns, but being a sector ETF it's inherently riskier. Literally half of it is Apple and Microsoft. The tech industry is notoriously volatile. SCHG doesn't have as strong returns as QQQ or VGT, but it has a dirt cheap expense ratio that won't eat into your gains as much. It all boils down to preferences in all honesty. There's nothing wrong with being willing to pay a higher expense ratio (like you said, a 20% expense ratio isn't bad at all) to get stronger returns. On the flipside, you shouldn't get FOMO if you opt to save money on the expense ratio. There's a lot of personal economics that goes on with investing.
I'd like to hear more about it myself. I like the idea of reits, but NLY and TWO are fluctuating too much for me to feel comfortable with them. I like the idea of a REIT index fund, even if the dividends are lower
Great channel and videos as always man. Quick question, lets say all companies in portfolio are considered safe. Dividends received, do you typically re invest back into same company? M1 always just puts it back into account, and I can never decide if I should be putting them back into same companies I received them from or spread dividends around. I looked around on your channel to see if you had anything like this and didnt see anything. Thank you!
Thank you much! While I can't give direct financial advice I'll say what I do is I just reinvest the dividends right back into the companies to keep up the dividend snowball effect. Then I use all of my extra contributions (aka my "deposits/cash/etc") to buy new holdings/companies/etc. Hope that helps!
My financial advisor bought some of this for me at 296 a share. Its now at 367 .93. i wish he picked it up sooner when it was around 100. Anyway I am up 24 %. I had him buy SCHD at 71. I am thinking of recerching my own funds and eliminating him. 😅.
That one has far outperformed (over $100k versus the $35k we talked about in the example). But they tout that one for short term more than long term as it’s lows can hurt if it would go down.
If you've recently invested it's definitely been on a up and down slope. VTI is really the long-term hold, so while this isn't financial advice, keep it going and take a look at it's past performance. It's had some good years and some bad, but it has continued to grow at a nice rate over the long term.
I’m somewhat new to ETF investing . I plan on making a Roth IRA, is it worth buying ETFs like QQQ, or VOO or ARK etc since they are already Expensive in price ?? I thought the goal was to buy low and sell high .
Not financial advice: It's all about that long-term hold as I see it versus short-term timing the market (buy low sell high). Especially in a Roth or typical IRA, even when we had prior all-time market highs, we definitely did see a drop or "market correction" occur which was annoying to see the portfolio in the red, but as time ticked on, the market and S&P 500 trend has continued to grow on an overall average growth of 10% per year. So even with the high, and potential drawback coming, long-term we should hope to see the continued average as we have over the last 60++ years.
Expensive is a really interesting idea with investing and trying to determine how to know if a thing is expensive is not as simple as it’s gone up in share price. Anyways, the market is very often at all time highs and time in the market is more valuable than timing the market.
Own a growth ETF, A Dividend ETF and a Bond ETF. As you get older slowly rotate more into dividend and bond ETF while continuing to hold your growth. Just stop adding additional shares to it. Hold ETFs with low expense ratios like Charles Schwabs SCHG/SCHD/ and SCHZ. This is how you outperform the market long term.
DUDE THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS ONE!!!!!! I THINK IF YOUR YOUNG AND CAN HANDLE VOLATILITY ITS A GREAT LONG TERM INVESTMENT!!! STRESSING THE LONG TERM PHRASE HAHA
QQQ is great and seems to outperform SPY consistently... So, it seems like a great long-term buy& hold. But, what if there are other stocks that consistently [long-term] have out-performed even QQQ, should you make up your portfolio of those things instead? Now, maybe it'll just be a subset of QQQ stocks, possibly with some other things not in QQQ, or whatever? Or missing some things that QQQ owns as its underlying stocks... But, would it outperform QQQ long-term? Would it be "riskier" due to it being a smaller pool of "underlying" stocks vs. QQQ which surveys the broader market and holds a bigger basket of stocks, and potential volatility could erase gains more easily if any of them under-performs [even if they've historically out-performed and been generally good long-term buy&hold-ers]? I've been watching all kinds of dividend investing videos and looking at the comments for others' suggestions, and putting their tickers [if they look interesting] into a "speculative" portfolio in Seeking Alpha, to look back at them over time...Then I go into Portfolio Visualizer or Seeking Alpha "charting" and kind of do some comparative "best of" / "survival of the fittest" graphing to see which stocks or ETFs appear to "outperform" other stocks, typically using QQQ & SPY as the "baseline" of comparison. So, like, I'll put in QQQ as the baseline, SPY for comparison, and then like 2 other tickers, and see where they fall, above, below, or in between SPY & QQQ over various time periods, YTD, 1yr, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, and see which seem to regularly outperform on the longer scales of 3-10+ years, but also have okay performance in the current last 3 years of COVID-related recession. And those I kind of sort into a "best of" portfolio, so I can refer back to them over time more specifically. So, I guess my question is, can you game the market this way, a bit, assuming past performance gives some idea of future performance (I know, it doesn't rigorously, but it's at least an indicator of overall quality, if there's good capital appreciation, good dividend growth, or at least not dividend cuts, etc.)... Would be interesting to see you do a deep dive on that kind of mindset, to see if maybe picking your own stonks can potentially outperform even the indexes [which are clearly "gold standard" at present]? I'll give some examples (some are obvious, some are not, or at least not well known or regularly talked about): AAPL (Apple) DHR (Danaher Corporation) EXR (Extra Space Storage; surprisingly "wow!" growth, vs. QQQ?) HASI (Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure) HD (Home Depot; pretty "wow!" vs. QQQ on growth over the last 10-12 years) KNSL (Kinsale Capital Group; fairly "wow!" vs. QQQ on growth over last ~6 years) LLY (Eli Lilly and Company) LOW (Lowe's Companies) MED (Medifast; wow! that growth over the last 10 year!) MSFT (Microsoft) Now, the various stocks here will also look a bit different when one looks at their monthly dividend incomes. Some are 'better' or 'worse' than others. So, one might ask if, between some of these, putting together a basket of high performers (capital appreciation in excess of QQQ) that *also* have relatively higher dividend yield and/or higher dividend growth rate, might further "out perform" by not only giving a higher capital appreciation but better long-term dividend monthly income at the end-point?
What other really good stocks that regularly outperform QQQ on Capital Appreciation long-term by a large margin [and maybe also have good dividend yield and/or dividend growth rate], might be good to add into the "survival of the fittest" competition running?
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The whole world runs on tech. Everyone buys goods and services from the qqq companies. These are 100 of the biggest best run companies in the world. They have no debt tons of cash great products and operate in virtual monopolies. One can't put together a better portfolio. You don't invest in the past but in the future. 2021 is a lot different world then 1999.
No brainier portfolio buy and hold 50% SPY 50% QQQ. This portfolio, over time, will out perform most managed portfolios.
for me its 60% SPY and 40% QQQ in ROTH IRA
Despite it’s wild swings, Nasdaq has destroyed S&P since it’s inception in the 70’s
Hey man. Been a subscriber for a few months. Thanks for existing and providing your expertise. I acquired over 100 shares of QQQ June of last year @ $242 and am up over 50%. I have no plan of selling QQQ any time soon.
Hey thank you much!! Also congrats on those 100 QQQ's!!
Fantastic video! QQQ is a buy and hold forever fund for me.
Great explanation of the Q’s been in it for a minute and learned something new today. Thx
I’m glad to hear that! Thanks
I have had Questions Questions Questions about this stock. Thanks for the video.
Haha I see what you did there! Love it 😄
If you only had a few hundred to spread around and add a few bucks every month, would you put $100 in qqq? Or is there a better/equal etf? Thanks. I’m ok with risk, just don’t want to put money into two etfs that are essentially the same in risk and returns/growth potential or basically have the same holdings.
QQQ strikes me as excellent for holding for growth when retirement is 15-20 years away, though since its a strong options platform, hanging onto QQQ as we approach retirement and switching our strategy on the ETF from growth to income by writing the wheel might be the way to go?
Very interesting idea - I honestly haven't thought of the options part to be fair, but could be something to look into for balance
I can't access my Roth for 35 years, so I choose QQQ over an SP500 index for it's long term higher growth potential. Big tech has sooo much cash right now, I want to load up on those companies- Apple has 95B of FCF and MSFT is raising divs and doing 60B in buybacks. QYLD and QYLG efts use covered calls on QQQ shares to return monthly income.
@@WanderingExistence those cover calls ETF like QYLD are higher in taxes. You're on the right track to keep it in the roth account. That's what I did.
all-time high - the highest level ever before achieved or attained
The term has nothing to do with future time.
You forget that people DCA into the fund so even if they bought at a high, their average cost would be much lower
People forget that it is possible to lower your cost basis on ETFs. Therefore if a person bought the dips on QQQ,they would have recovered much sooner than 16 years.
That is an incredible point!!! Thank you, you're absolutely right
Can you upload a video which explains this "lower your cost basis on ETFs"? I didn't know about that and its sounds interesting
Yes you are right, Only Issue here is, when portfolio on qqq crash 80% ,would that person have guts put more money! If it is something like S&P 500 I would still keep buy because I know market would eventually recover, when it comes to one particular sector its bit hard have faith if it evill will recover.
@@BobSharpe what are your comments on qqq vs vgt?
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Currently I have 50% in FOCPX & 50% in ARKK. Wha do you think about ARKK? Still a buy in the long term? Was thinking about selling my ARKK and buying QQQ but selling low and buying high isn’t a good investment habit.
"Don't be dumb, tab the thumb..."
Okay, but like, I'm feeling really stupid right now. What's this about?
"On the video."
Ahhh... makes WAY more sense now.
😂 All good!
Long term investment is better than just day trading
Absolutely!
Loved it Bob! Thumbs-up! See you next time 🙂 and happy holiday!!
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Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays to you! Appreciate you stopping by 😃
Is it wise to example put in 500$ a month into qqq eventho it keeps going down ? Do this for a long time?
Yeah, you are buying cheap.
What about something like SCHG vs QQQ?
Are we good? #Q
We’re good.
How about VUG compare with QQQ do the same?
@@uverex251 good question! so if you put that on the same timeline that I shared in the video, from 2016-2020 the $10,000 investment grows to $35k with QQQ which is $5,000 more than VUG comparatively.
@@BobSharpe Thanks!!!
IIRC, some people called it “cubes” or “qubes” in the early days (maybe they still do) because of the three Qs. I first bought QQQ in the late 90s and never sold despite the tech bubble bursting, and have the returns you talked about (I can’t claim being any genius, though. I also owned Microsoft and Amazon separately and sold those while I also should have held on). Good video.
Hey Bob! Can you make a video about BLOK? or any other crypto funds? THANK YOU!!!
Good question! I'll add this to future content 😃
Hey 👋
I am currently invested in QQQ
I invest on these on a monthly basis
From the last 3 months I have been buying 1 unit every month
Is that a good strategy in the long term ?
And also is it better to invest at the end of the month given that market slows down ?
How is it going? Have you gone up in percentage?
I'm curious about the commission. Is it still a good buy? I've seen videos for long term and commissions are super high!
Hi @Kostas
So far going good given the market situation
But for the last month I have not invested in QQQ as I felt it was over inflated
So that money I'm saving it to invest when it drops
@@shanmukhrajkaila422 thanks
Time in the market beats timing the market. Also, dollar-cost averaging.
your a real good channel my friend, thanks for the info!
Thanks for watching!
im new in this i have 3 ETF's in my portafolio one is because the dividends 100 shares SPDR ,ALSO 2 VTI and 14 shares of XIJ what do you think
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I really like and trust QQQ
It's holdings mix is always so exciting too!
HI IM THINKING TO BUY COUPLE QQQS
its better return when you by couple or 1 is enough
?
Totally your call! But as far as a return, even 1 share will return the same percentage, of course the more money you have in a portfolio gives it more room to grow by the mathematics of it all, but if you only have $5, $10, or the cost of 1 share available to invest, it's not a reason to not consider investing (not direct financial advice).
How about TQQQ?
QQQ isn't bad per se, but there are other growth ETFs that have outperformed it on cheaper expense ratios like VGT.
I heard this argument yesterday. I understand buying into an ETF that performs similarly or better with a lower expense ratio, it would be silly not to but a 0.20% expense ratio isn't terrible either. QQQ is cheaper than VGT though; I just wonder what the differential is in terms of math, are they equal or is one better?
@@91wheelz The overall stock price isn't really the number to look at; rate of return and expense ratios are more important to consider. The type of ETF is big as well.
VGT has a cheaper expense ratio and stronger returns, but being a sector ETF it's inherently riskier. Literally half of it is Apple and Microsoft. The tech industry is notoriously volatile.
SCHG doesn't have as strong returns as QQQ or VGT, but it has a dirt cheap expense ratio that won't eat into your gains as much.
It all boils down to preferences in all honesty. There's nothing wrong with being willing to pay a higher expense ratio (like you said, a 20% expense ratio isn't bad at all) to get stronger returns. On the flipside, you shouldn't get FOMO if you opt to save money on the expense ratio. There's a lot of personal economics that goes on with investing.
hey Big fan here from the start, I own qqq shares and love that you dived into this
Thanks! Let’s aim to keep QQQ growing with its strong holdings 😃
Can you make a video about BLK or compare to QQQ VGT OR else ..thanks
Yes a few requests on that one - stay tuned!
So relatable man. That’s what I like about this channel.
Thank you!! More videos on the way 😃
Thanks for giving us the info on this stock. What about this REIT SRET
I'd like to hear more about it myself. I like the idea of reits, but NLY and TWO are fluctuating too much for me to feel comfortable with them. I like the idea of a REIT index fund, even if the dividends are lower
O and get frt.
Yes I haven’t touched on REITs in a while - I’ll add this into future content 😃
@@BobSharpe thanks
Thanks Bob Gr eat analsis and great ETFyou are the best. Blessing 🙏
You are welcome! Thanks for checking out the video 😃
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Great channel and videos as always man. Quick question, lets say all companies in portfolio are considered safe. Dividends received, do you typically re invest back into same company? M1 always just puts it back into account, and I can never decide if I should be putting them back into same companies I received them from or spread dividends around. I looked around on your channel to see if you had anything like this and didnt see anything. Thank you!
Thank you much! While I can't give direct financial advice I'll say what I do is I just reinvest the dividends right back into the companies to keep up the dividend snowball effect. Then I use all of my extra contributions (aka my "deposits/cash/etc") to buy new holdings/companies/etc. Hope that helps!
@@BobSharpe thanks man! Keep up the great work
My financial advisor bought some of this for me at 296 a share. Its now at 367 .93. i wish he picked it up sooner when it was around 100. Anyway I am up 24 %. I had him buy SCHD at 71. I am thinking of recerching my own funds and eliminating him. 😅.
Great information Bob, how about triple q.🤔🤔
That one has far outperformed (over $100k versus the $35k we talked about in the example). But they tout that one for short term more than long term as it’s lows can hurt if it would go down.
Hi Bob this ETF is qqq will the best. Portfolio big technology!!
I have lost money so far investing in VTI lately....will it ever climb back up??
probably since it does nothing but go up since its inception looking long term
If you've recently invested it's definitely been on a up and down slope. VTI is really the long-term hold, so while this isn't financial advice, keep it going and take a look at it's past performance. It's had some good years and some bad, but it has continued to grow at a nice rate over the long term.
@@BobSharpe thanks Bob. I just started investing in VTI three months ago. It's reassuring to know that it is a good long term investment
@@matthews6216 thanks!
How long have you owned VTI shares? As others pointed out, long-term is name of game.
Hello sir my name is sagar and I m from india i m 18 years old i want to know can i earn money from online through stocks and by investing it
Hey Woody, we're good.
Thank you 🤠
I’m somewhat new to ETF investing . I plan on making a Roth IRA, is it worth buying ETFs like QQQ, or VOO or ARK etc since they are already Expensive in price ??
I thought the goal was to buy low and sell high .
K: wrong sell in 6 or 7 years! Stay long term is the best.
Not financial advice: It's all about that long-term hold as I see it versus short-term timing the market (buy low sell high). Especially in a Roth or typical IRA, even when we had prior all-time market highs, we definitely did see a drop or "market correction" occur which was annoying to see the portfolio in the red, but as time ticked on, the market and S&P 500 trend has continued to grow on an overall average growth of 10% per year. So even with the high, and potential drawback coming, long-term we should hope to see the continued average as we have over the last 60++ years.
Expensive is a really interesting idea with investing and trying to determine how to know if a thing is expensive is not as simple as it’s gone up in share price. Anyways, the market is very often at all time highs and time in the market is more valuable than timing the market.
Would u recommend buying something like QQQ over buying anyone of these individually?
I’m 17 and I’ve been dca’ing in VOO and I’m thinking of starting to go 70% VOO 30% Nvidia or 60% VOO, 30% QQQ and 10% Nvidia
That’s my question…is it at the all time high or can it eventually go up😅
Own a growth ETF, A Dividend ETF and a Bond ETF. As you get older slowly rotate more into dividend and bond ETF while continuing to hold your growth. Just stop adding additional shares to it. Hold ETFs with low expense ratios like Charles Schwabs SCHG/SCHD/ and SCHZ. This is how you outperform the market long term.
What should be the ratio?
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just buy now. Never predict the market, because we can’t guess better than monkey. I will hold TQQQ for 20% of my portfolio for next 10 yrs.
I am a fan of QQQJ!
QQQM is the exact same holdings but cheaper.
Yes good one!
Spyg cheaper but same return
whatever you buy, just never sell it ever
TQQQ let's go
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How about spyg？
Cool I'm howding awot of dose now.
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DUDE THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS ONE!!!!!! I THINK IF YOUR YOUNG AND CAN HANDLE VOLATILITY ITS A GREAT LONG TERM INVESTMENT!!! STRESSING THE LONG TERM PHRASE HAHA
You're welcome - glad you enjoyed it! And yes ....long-term hold on this one for sure!
BY THE WAY HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED INTO QQQM? WHAT ARE YOU THOUGHTS ON THAT? MAYBE A UA-cam SHORT VIDEO ON IT WOULD BE AWESOME HAHA
It's not just a matter of 'not having the stomach'. Some of us will be dead in ten years. Maybe fifteen
I want to buy it at 166
QQQM for me👍🏾🏆🛎
You average down and make even more.
We're good
Let it go and let it grow. priceless!
I might have to make that my new quote I repeat 😄
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It’s a great investment
Funny to watch this video in Nov 2020.
Q is good
Ok good! :-)
definitely a more volatile stock
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theres a snake in my boot
just call triple q :)
Triple Q? Tri Q? I'll call it triQ
What about SQQQ for a short term play. With Russian about to invade Ukraine and Inflation at a 40 year high?
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Triple Q
why, why, why do you talk so fast. Can't keep up with it. Do you save money by talking so fast? 5:34
QQQ is great and seems to outperform SPY consistently...
So, it seems like a great long-term buy& hold.
But, what if there are other stocks that consistently [long-term] have out-performed even QQQ, should you make up your portfolio of those things instead? Now, maybe it'll just be a subset of QQQ stocks, possibly with some other things not in QQQ, or whatever? Or missing some things that QQQ owns as its underlying stocks... But, would it outperform QQQ long-term? Would it be "riskier" due to it being a smaller pool of "underlying" stocks vs. QQQ which surveys the broader market and holds a bigger basket of stocks, and potential volatility could erase gains more easily if any of them under-performs [even if they've historically out-performed and been generally good long-term buy&hold-ers]?
I've been watching all kinds of dividend investing videos and looking at the comments for others' suggestions, and putting their tickers [if they look interesting] into a "speculative" portfolio in Seeking Alpha, to look back at them over time...Then I go into Portfolio Visualizer or Seeking Alpha "charting" and kind of do some comparative "best of" / "survival of the fittest" graphing to see which stocks or ETFs appear to "outperform" other stocks, typically using QQQ & SPY as the "baseline" of comparison.
So, like, I'll put in QQQ as the baseline, SPY for comparison, and then like 2 other tickers, and see where they fall, above, below, or in between SPY & QQQ over various time periods, YTD, 1yr, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, and see which seem to regularly outperform on the longer scales of 3-10+ years, but also have okay performance in the current last 3 years of COVID-related recession. And those I kind of sort into a "best of" portfolio, so I can refer back to them over time more specifically.
So, I guess my question is, can you game the market this way, a bit, assuming past performance gives some idea of future performance (I know, it doesn't rigorously, but it's at least an indicator of overall quality, if there's good capital appreciation, good dividend growth, or at least not dividend cuts, etc.)...
Would be interesting to see you do a deep dive on that kind of mindset, to see if maybe picking your own stonks can potentially outperform even the indexes [which are clearly "gold standard" at present]?
I'll give some examples (some are obvious, some are not, or at least not well known or regularly talked about):
AAPL (Apple)
DHR (Danaher Corporation)
EXR (Extra Space Storage; surprisingly "wow!" growth, vs. QQQ?)
HASI (Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure)
HD (Home Depot; pretty "wow!" vs. QQQ on growth over the last 10-12 years)
KNSL (Kinsale Capital Group; fairly "wow!" vs. QQQ on growth over last ~6 years)
LLY (Eli Lilly and Company)
LOW (Lowe's Companies)
MED (Medifast; wow! that growth over the last 10 year!)
MSFT (Microsoft)
Now, the various stocks here will also look a bit different when one looks at their monthly dividend incomes. Some are 'better' or 'worse' than others. So, one might ask if, between some of these, putting together a basket of high performers (capital appreciation in excess of QQQ) that *also* have relatively higher dividend yield and/or higher dividend growth rate, might further "out perform" by not only giving a higher capital appreciation but better long-term dividend monthly income at the end-point?
What other really good stocks that regularly outperform QQQ on Capital Appreciation long-term by a large margin [and maybe also have good dividend yield and/or dividend growth rate], might be good to add into the "survival of the fittest" competition running?
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