First, some housecleaning...Vodafone (VOD) finally sold its holding of Verizon Wireless to Verizon (VZ), meaning I could declare "mission accomplished" for a 94% gain (16% annualized). I used the proceeds to help buy 2 old stocks, and 2 new stocks...
3D Systems (DDD)
Positives:
Excellent revenue growth (52%).
3D printing is a hot industry (like, "electric car" hot).
Negatives:
Absurd 166 P/E, though forward 62 P/E is slightly better.
Poor earnings growth (3%).
Heavily shorted (29%).
Stratasys (SSYS)
Positives:
153% revenue growth.
$615M cash, $0 debt.
42% of shares owned by insiders.
Negatives:
No earnings as of yet; forward P/E of 56.
Negative profit margin (-7%) and ROE (-2%).
iRobot (IRBT)
Positives:
Good revenue growth (26%).
$187M cash, $0 debt.
Seems like something Google might want to buy (e.g. Nest, Boston Dynamics).
Negatives:
Lukewarm margins (6% profit, 7% operating) and returns (6% on assets, 9% on equity).
Substantially shorted (18%).
Should be making more interesting things than vacuum cleaners.
Lululemon Athletica (LULU)
Positives:
Solid margins (18% profit, 26% operating) and returns (25% on assets, 31% on equity).
$601M cash, $0 debt.
Reasonable 26 P/E, 23 forward P/E.
Negatives:
Market cap of $7B. That's a lot of yoga pants.
Substantially shorted (17%).
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) 11.84%
Apple (AAPL) 9.83%
Google (GOOG) 7.75%
Baidu (BIDU) 6.08%
Amazon (AMZN) 3.86%
3D Systems (DDD) 3.81%
Qihoo 360 (QIHU) 3.51%
Under Armour (UA) 3.25%
Southern Copper (SCCO) 3.19%
Stratasys (SSYS) 3.11%
Ace Limited (ACE) 2.97%
Blackstone (BX) 2.69%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 2.60%
American Software (AMSWA) 2.15%
Nike (NKE) 1.94%
Twitter (TWTR) 1.92%
Wynn Resorts (WYNN) 1.74%
Las Vegas Sands (LVS) 1.48%
DuPont (DD) 1.46%
McDonald's (MCD) 1.28%
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) 1.28%
Prospect Capital (PSEC) 1.27%
Intel (INTC) 1.26%
Apache (APA) 1.26%
American Express (AXP) 1.16%
Computer Programs and Systems (CPSI) 1.06%
Hershey (HSY) 1.06%
Ansys (ANSS) 1.00%
Starbucks (SBUX) 0.96%
Wells Fargo (WFC) 0.96%
F5 Networks (FFIV) 0.96%
ConocoPhillips (COP) 0.95%
Microsoft (MSFT) 0.89%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 0.89%
Salesforce.com (CRM) 0.88%
BlackRock (BLK) 0.86%
Cisco (CSCO) 0.83%
iRobot (IRBT) 0.82%
Coca-Cola (KO) 0.82%
International Business Machines (IBM) 0.79%
Lululemon Athletica (LULU) 0.78%
China Mobile (CHL) 0.72%
The Distressed (BEBE, GSOL, LZB, MSI, TMUS) 0.70%
Whole Foods Market (WFM) 0.69%
ExOne (XONE) 0.55%
