Let's make a 5-6 stock portfolio!

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(03-26-2021, 01:57 PM)ken-do-nim Wrote: When someone asks me what to invest in when they are just starting a new portfolio, I always answer ETFs for the initial investments, going with individual stocks later.  And in particular, I tell people to start with VOO, the best S&P 500 index fund.

But in the spirit of DGI ...
tech - AVGO
utility - WEC
industrial - CAT
retail - TGT

I think with JNJ you already have super safe covered.  It doesn't want to budget off of $160.

Agreed, but in a 6 stock port two super safe but growing DGI stocks and a growing and just as safe UTE isn't a bad place to be when your friend is trusting you not to disrupt his sleep and net worth.      

I'm jealous.  All my family and friends know I follow the market.  They mostly ask me how to turn $1K into $100K by next Christmas. I inform them it might take 30 years of steadily wasting some perfectly good spending money on stocks to make their first million and they lose interest lol.