Saturday, April 21, 2018

Stocks Of The Month: AAPL, NVDA

This month's purchases were the same as last month: Apple (AAPL) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

Hindsight being 20/20, I should have chosen the other 2 stocks of the Big Four - Amazon and Tesla. My thinking was that all four are way below their 16% allocation target, so I might as well bring up the farthest laggards first. Of course, there are 14 other stocks listed below as "buy", and any of those could be more deserving. And Intuitive Surgical and Adobe and Autodesk recently reported great results, so they deserve attention as well...

In the long run any given month's choices shouldn't matter (in theory), so I try not to worry about it. They will all have their turns. #TheresAlwaysNextMonth

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

Amazon (AMZN) 14.36%
Tesla (TSLA) 13.19%
NVIDIA (NVDA) 12.72%
Apple (AAPL) 12.07%
Alphabet (GOOGL) 7.31%
Facebook (FB) 4.73%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 4.29%
Microsoft (MSFT) 3.05%
Adobe Systems (ADBE) 2.82%
Nike (NKE) 2.28%
Salesforce.com (CRM) 2.25%
Intel (INTC) 2.07%
Visa (V) 1.95%
UnitedHealth Group (UNH) 1.84%
BlackRock (BLK) 1.78%
Booking Holdings (BKNG) 1.67%
Starbucks (SBUX) 1.61%
Waste Management (WM) 1.59%
Chubb Limited (CB) 1.55%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 1.31%
Autodesk (ADSK) 1.02%
Comcast (CMCSA) 0.64%
Activision Blizzard (ATVI) 0.59%
American Water Works (AWK) 0.57%
CSX (CSX) 0.49%
Norfolk Southern (NSC) 0.46%
Aqua America (WTR) 0.46%
Union Pacific (UNP) 0.46%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 0.43%
Kansas City Southern (KSU) 0.41%