Thursday, April 2, 2015

Stock Of The Month: TSLA

I'm following my gut this month. Sometimes I'll look at a trading price, and get a nagging this stock is too cheap/doesn't belong here/is going higher very, very soon feeling. And when that stock doesn't abide by fundamentals, that gut feeling is all you really have anyway...


Tesla Motors (TSLA)

Positives:
Elon Musk.
Makes the best cars in the world. A truly customer-delightful company.
56% revenue growth.
Market cap ($24B) one-quarter that of the buggy whip maker it will soon obsolesce (Daimler, $101B).

Negatives:
Horrible fundamentals across the board (negative earnings, margins, cash flows, etc., etc.)


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

Apple (AAPL) 13.95%
Tesla Motors (TSLA) 9.11%
Baidu (BIDU) 6.38%
Google (GOOG/GOOGL) 5.93%
3D Systems (DDD) 3.93%
Under Armour (UA) 3.89%
Twitter (TWTR) 3.55%
Amazon (AMZN) 3.42%
Ace Limited (ACE) 2.93%
Blackstone (BX) 2.73%
Southern Copper (SCCO) 2.62%
Stratasys (SSYS) 2.59%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 2.49%
Nike (NKE) 2.13%
Qihoo 360 (QIHU) 1.99%
BlackRock (BLK) 1.79%
American Software (AMSWA) 1.78%
Wells Fargo (WFC) 1.76%
Boeing (BA) 1.55%
China Mobile (CHL) 1.54%
Cisco (CSCO) 1.53%
ConocoPhillips (COP) 1.47%
Microsoft (MSFT) 1.43%
Intel (INTC) 1.36%
DuPont (DD) 1.35%
EMC (EMC) 1.12%
McDonald's (MCD) 1.11%
Alibaba (BABA) 1.11%
Starbucks (SBUX) 1.10%
Ansys (ANSS) 0.90%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 0.90%
American Express (AXP) 0.88%
Hershey (HSY) 0.86%
Lululemon Athletica (LULU) 0.85%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 0.83%
F5 Networks (FFIV) 0.83%
Las Vegas Sands (LVS) 0.82%
Salesforce.com (CRM) 0.82%
Wynn Resorts (WYNN) 0.79%
Coca-Cola (KO) 0.75%
Computer Programs and Systems (CPSI) 0.72%
Groupon (GRPN) 0.70%
International Business Machines (IBM) 0.59%
iRobot (IRBT) 0.54%
SolarCity (SCTY) 0.48%