Saturday, December 3, 2016

Stocks Of The Month: NVDA, UNH

We will end 2016 with 27 stocks held. This means in two years, the number of stocks owned has gone from 49, to 35, to 27. At least one of my investing goals was met this year...though this number will jump to 30 fairly quickly in 2017, as I already have 3 great stocks chosen for addition :-)

The last sell of 2016 is Veolia Environnement (VEOEY). I like the underlying asset (water), but it has performed poorly to say the least.

VEOEY - 5 YR
VEOEY - 6 MO

Added for this month are one oldie, and one brand new to the portfolio: NVIDIA (NVDA), and UnitedHealth Group (UNH).

NVIDIA was bought all the way back in 2007, and (foolishly) sold in 2008. It was strictly a PC graphics chip business back then; now they are the leader in two critical technologies: deep learning and autonomous driving.

UnitedHealth Group is, in one word, monstrous. They are growing $181B in revenues at 12% a year, have $16B in free cash flow, and have consistently increased their dividend for 26 years and counting (currently yielding 1.6%).

Here's my current portfolio (buy, hold, and sell...wait, there are no sells...). As always, I believe in all of these stocks - until I sell them.

Apple (AAPL) 12.29%
3D Systems (DDD) 9.72%
Amazon (AMZN) 9.36%
Alphabet (GOOGL) 8.92%
Tesla Motors (TSLA) 8.91%
Facebook (FB) 5.61%
Twitter (TWTR) 5.58%
Stratasys (SSYS) 4.04%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 3.72%
Under Armour (UAA) 3.56%
Nike (NKE) 3.24%
Starbucks (SBUX) 2.95%
Chubb Limited (CB) 2.67%
Microsoft (MSFT) 2.36%
Salesforce.com (CRM) 2.33%
Adobe Systems (ADBE) 2.33%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 1.92%
BlackRock (BLK) 1.44%
NVIDIA (NVDA) 1.33%
UnitedHealth Group (UNH) 1.33%
Intel (INTC) 1.20%
Autodesk (ADSK) 1.03%
ExOne (XONE) 0.92%
American Water Works (AWK) 0.92%
Waste Management (WM) 0.78%
Aqua America (WTR) 0.75%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 0.72%