Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Stocks Of The Month: DDD, TWTR, WM (The Figurative And Literal Garbage Edition)

The stock market has been off to such a horrible start in 2016, I didn't even bother to post about it. Here's what happened in January:

  • Bought: Adobe Systems (ADBE), Autodesk (ADSK), Facebook (FB)
  • Bought more: 3D Systems (DDD), Stratasys (SSYS), Twitter (TWTR)
  • Sold: American Express (AXP), DuPont (DD), Qihoo 360 (QIHU)
  • Lost: a ton of money

Hey, you're all caught up! For this month I bought two highly disliked stocks that I already own (DDD and TWTR), and one new dividend stock that is a real haul of junk...


Waste Management (WM)

Positives:
2.9% dividend yield.
Positive operating/levered free cash flows ($2.5B each).
24% earnings growth.
Solid profit (8%) and operating (15%) margins, ROA (6%), ROE (20%).

Negatives:
Negative revenue growth (-7%).
$0.1B cash vs. $9.1B debt.


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

Apple (AAPL) 11.97%
Tesla Motors (TSLA) 8.41%
Alphabet (GOOGL) 8.38%
3D Systems (DDD) 6.49%
Under Armour (UA) 5.03%
Amazon (AMZN) 4.95%
Baidu (BIDU) 4.76%
Nike (NKE) 4.27%
Stratasys (SSYS) 3.86%
Starbucks (SBUX) 3.03%
Chubb Limited (CB) 3.01%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 2.71%
Blackstone (BX) 2.66%
Twitter (TWTR) 2.64%
Southern Copper (SCCO) 2.32%
Microsoft (MSFT) 1.88%
American Software (AMSWA) 1.68%
Wells Fargo (WFC) 1.57%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 1.55%
BlackRock (BLK) 1.51%
Veolia Environnement (VEOEY) 1.50%
Salesforce.com (CRM) 1.46%
McDonald's (MCD) 1.43%
Intel (INTC) 1.31%
Boeing (BA) 1.29%
Facebook (FB) 1.26%
Adobe Systems (ADBE) 1.09%
American Water Works (AWK) 1.06%
Aqua America (WTR) 1.04%
Autodesk (ADSK) 0.92%
Ansys (ANSS) 0.92%
Lululemon Athletica (LULU) 0.86%
Coca-Cola (KO) 0.80%
Waste Management (WM) 0.76%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 0.73%
F5 Networks (FFIV) 0.68%