Thursday, August 4, 2016

Stocks Of The Month: ADBE, CRM, GOOGL, ISRG

We're down to 29* stocks owned!

*about 5(?) more than where I think I will end up?

The most recent departure is one that kind of snuck up on me: Baidu (BIDU). Once upon a time, I bought and sold this stock for 193% gain (288% annualized!). Then the stock fell down, but rebounded even higher, and I felt compelled to buy the same amount I once had, all over again. From there on, BIDU was always in the black for me...until one day, I woke up and realized that its been quietly yet consistently underperforming for half a decade:

5 YR 
2 YR
YTD
3 MO
This month's buys are 4 growth stocks that I feel that I've been ignoring: Alphabet (GOOGL), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), Salesforce.com (CRM) and Adobe Systems (ADBE).

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

Apple (AAPL) 11.18%
Tesla Motors (TSLA) 10.78%
3D Systems (DDD) 9.46%
Amazon (AMZN) 8.89%
Alphabet (GOOGL) 8.54%
Facebook (FB) 5.57%
Twitter (TWTR) 4.91%
Under Armour (UAA) 4.63%
Stratasys (SSYS) 4.44%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 4.05%
Nike (NKE) 2.93%
Salesforce.com (CRM) 2.75%
Chubb Limited (CB) 2.63%
Adobe Systems (ADBE) 2.27%
Starbucks (SBUX) 2.21%
Microsoft (MSFT) 1.62%
BlackRock (BLK) 1.43%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 1.38%
Wells Fargo (WFC) 1.23%
Intel (INTC) 1.21%
McDonald's (MCD) 1.09%
Veolia Environnement (VEOEY) 1.05%
American Water Works (AWK) 1.01%
Aqua America (WTR) 0.85%
Autodesk (ADSK) 0.85%
Ansys (ANSS) 0.77%
Waste Management (WM) 0.74%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 0.66%
Coca-Cola (KO) 0.64%