Monday, September 22, 2014

Bought BABA; Sold BEBE, WFM, XONE

These 3 things being true...
  • I own too many stocks.
  • I have some capital gains that need to be offset.
  • I like a red-hot China stock as much as anyone.
...have conspired towards the selling of losers BEBE (-70% total, -37% annualized), WFM (-35%, -36%), and XONE (-42%, -36%); to fund a purchase of the largest IPO in U.S. stock market history, Alibaba (BABA). This company has some interesting key statistics all around, so here they are...


Alibaba (BABA)
$231B market cap.
40 forward P/E.
54% profit margin, 48% operating margin.
46% revenue growth.
179%(!) earnings growth.
$9.7B cash vs. $10.1B debt.
$5.12B operating cash flow.


Here's my current portfolio (growth, dividend, and speculative). As always, I believe in all of these stocks - until I sell them.

Apple (AAPL) 11.45%
Tesla Motors (TSLA) 10.66%
Baidu (BIDU) 7.01%
Google (GOOG/GOOGL) 6.74%
3D Systems (DDD) 4.95%
Stratasys (SSYS) 4.08%
Under Armour (UA) 3.41%
Amazon (AMZN) 3.10%
Twitter (TWTR) 2.91%
Southern Copper (SCCO) 2.89%
Ace Limited (ACE) 2.87%
Blackstone (BX) 2.38%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 2.34%
Qihoo 360 (QIHU) 2.15%
Nike (NKE) 1.78%
Microsoft (MSFT) 1.72%
American Software (AMSWA) 1.57%
Intel (INTC) 1.56%
DuPont (DD) 1.38%
EMC (EMC) 1.32%
Apache (APA) 1.32%
Alibaba (BABA) 1.29%
Wynn Resorts (WYNN) 1.15%
McDonald's (MCD) 1.12%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 1.02%
Prospect Capital (PSEC) 1.01%
American Express (AXP) 1.01%
ConocoPhillips (COP) 1.00%
Wells Fargo (WFC) 0.96%
F5 Networks (FFIV) 0.93%
Las Vegas Sands (LVS) 0.93%
Starbucks (SBUX) 0.90%
Cisco (CSCO) 0.85%
Ansys (ANSS) 0.84%
BlackRock (BLK) 0.83%
Hershey (HSY) 0.82%
China Mobile (CHL) 0.80%
Computer Programs and Systems (CPSI) 0.80%
Coca-Cola (KO) 0.79%
Salesforce.com (CRM) 0.73%
International Business Machines (IBM) 0.73%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 0.71%
Groupon (GRPN) 0.71%
SolarCity (SCTY) 0.60%
Lululemon Athletica (LULU) 0.59%
iRobot (IRBT) 0.53%
The Distressed (GSOL, LZB, MSI, TMUS) 0.51%

Monday, September 8, 2014

Stock Of The Month: SSYS

I believe this will close out my 3D printing investments for the year...


Stratasys (SSYS)

Positives:
68% revenue growth.
$578M cash, $0 debt.
42% of shares owned by insiders.

Negatives:
No earnings as of yet; forward P/E of 38.
Negative profit/operating margins (-1%) and ROA/ROE (0%).


Here's my current portfolio (growth, dividend, and speculative). As always, I believe in all of these stocks - until I sell them.

Tesla Motors (TSLA) 11.46%
Apple (AAPL) 11.02%
Baidu (BIDU) 6.94%
Google (GOOG/GOOGL) 6.60%
3D Systems (DDD) 5.14%
Stratasys (SSYS) 3.86%
Under Armour (UA) 3.58%
Amazon (AMZN) 3.16%
Southern Copper (SCCO) 2.91%
Twitter (TWTR) 2.82%
Ace Limited (ACE) 2.81%
Qihoo 360 (QIHU) 2.40%
Blackstone (BX) 2.32%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 2.30%
Nike (NKE) 1.78%
Microsoft (MSFT) 1.66%
Intel (INTC) 1.57%
American Software (AMSWA) 1.55%
Apache (APA) 1.33%
EMC (EMC) 1.30%
DuPont (DD) 1.25%
Wynn Resorts (WYNN) 1.14%
McDonald's (MCD) 1.08%
Prospect Capital (PSEC) 1.03%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 1.00%
American Express (AXP) 0.99%
ConocoPhillips (COP) 0.97%
Las Vegas Sands (LVS) 0.92%
Wells Fargo (WFC) 0.92%
F5 Networks (FFIV) 0.91%
Starbucks (SBUX) 0.91%
ExOne (XONE) 0.87%
Ansys (ANSS) 0.85%
Computer Programs and Systems (CPSI) 0.84%
China Mobile (CHL) 0.84%
Cisco (CSCO) 0.83%
BlackRock (BLK) 0.82%
Hershey (HSY) 0.79%
Coca-Cola (KO) 0.77%
Salesforce.com (CRM) 0.74%
International Business Machines (IBM) 0.70%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 0.70%
Groupon (GRPN) 0.67%
SolarCity (SCTY) 0.66%
iRobot (IRBT) 0.55%
The Distressed (BEBE, GSOL, LZB, MSI, TMUS) 0.55%
Lululemon Athletica (LULU) 0.53%
Whole Foods Market (WFM) 0.43%