Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Top 10 Stocks by Market Capitalization (1997-2019)

Prepare to be mesmerized, courtesy of RankingTheWorld:



Here are 6 screen captures from this video, corresponding with the beginning/end, and the 4 major peaks/valleys in between.








Some observations/questions:
  • Microsoft has been highly valued for 20+ years.  It is still well positioned to dominate going forward.
  • Aside from Microsoft, individual consumer goods/services, technology, and telecommunications stocks are not highly valued over multiple cycles.  Will Apple, Facebook, and Google break this trend?
  • There's (almost) always top representation for one big retailer.  It used to be Walmart; currently it is Amazon.  What will happen with Alibaba?
  • Energy has historically exclusively been fossil fuels - and is in current decline. Will green energy be as highly valued in the future as fossil fuels have been in the past?
  • Both financials and healthcare have at least one stock each in the top 10, regardless of the point in the market cycle...but rarely in the top 5 (disregarding the farce that was/is General Electric).
  • Commodities, industrials, infrastructure/utilities, real estate, and transports are historically not likely to have a top 10 stock.

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Stocks Of The Month: CMCSA, UNH

Since last month, the market has gone down considerably. In retrospect: they do ring bells at the top.

No matter...we buy every month no matter what.  I've added to two of my favorite dividend stocks...


Comcast (CMCSA)
  • $187.5B market cap
  • 2.1% dividend yield
  • $98.6B revenue
  • 18% revenue growth
  • $26.1B operating cash flow
  • $12.2B free cash flow

UnitedHealth Group (UNH)
  • $230.7B market cap
  • 1.5% dividend yield
  • $231.4B revenue
  • 9% revenue growth
  • $10.6B operating cash flow
  • $5.9B free cash flow

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

Amazon (AMZN) 14.91%
Apple (AAPL) 12.44%
NVIDIA (NVDA) 11.42%
Tesla (TSLA) 8.39%
Microsoft (MSFT) 7.36%
Alphabet (GOOGL) 6.13%
Facebook (FB) 4.33%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 3.94%
Adobe (ADBE) 2.96%
Visa (V) 2.58%
Salesforce (CRM) 2.50%
Nike (NKE) 2.46%
UnitedHealth Group (UNH) 2.36%
Intel (INTC) 2.01%
Starbucks (SBUX) 1.91%
Waste Management (WM) 1.62%
Comcast (CMCSA) 1.51%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 1.46%
BlackRock (BLK) 1.29%
American Water Works (AWK) 1.21%
Booking Holdings (BKNG) 1.20%
Norfolk Southern (NSC) 1.15%
Union Pacific (UNP) 1.13%
Autodesk (ADSK) 1.09%
CSX (CSX) 1.09%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 0.45%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) 0.45%
Kansas City Southern (KSU) 0.38%