01-08-2022, 10:03 AM
(01-08-2022, 09:47 AM)Scooterd Wrote:We mostly invest alike. You'll see me chatting here about the fun stuff but they are small bets and I don't get greedy when it works out.(01-06-2022, 09:21 PM)stockguru Wrote: Large cap stocks off to the worst start in 2022
Monday $MNDY -22%
Cloudflare $NET -21%
Humana $HUM -21%
HubSpot $HUBS -20%
GitLab $GTLB -20%
Affirm $AFRM -19%
Datadog $DDOG -19%
ZScaler $ZS -19%
MongoDB $MDB -19%
$BILL -19%
Repligen $RGEN -18%
Toast $TOST -18%
$TEAM -18%
Large cap growth YTD / -5.58%
Large cap Value YTD / +0.76%
My stodgy old large cap investments are doing just fine comparative to other areas of the market.
My thesis this year - QUALITY
Increase share count in my Mid/large cap investments that have clean balance sheets, Quality ratings, positive revenue, positive cash flow, moderate dividend payout ratios.Overweight / Underweight those companies appropriately dependent upon what the phase of the full business cycle the markets are experiencing. ----- But then again that's been my thesis for decades. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
Works for me
I'm still Standing!!
I'll let the young bucks play the speculative game in 2022,
Just Thoughts,
- Scoot
“It’s different this time.” Lenders and investors invariably depart from time-honored disciplines when cycles move to extremes, out of a belief that current conditions are different from those that prevailed in the past, when those disciplines were appropriate. And just as invariably, they’re shown that cycles repeat and nothing really changes.- Howard Marks
I always do a flight to safety any year the market makes me nervous. Heck I have too much cash most all the time. It's likely I am early and miss some of the fun, but I live to fight another day.
As I oft mention I watch a lot of youtube financial channels. It's been so painful watching content providers make literally $500K (or even a million) to lead the kids off a cliff with speculative plays. You couldn't lose in 2020 and they gave it all back starting about 9 months ago. Averaging down on trash with their last investment dollars, or worse yet they even borrowed some money. If they were lucky they bought some F, but mostly just a port of junk that won';t sniff a profit for years if ever, and diluting the followers into oblivion. And I act like this scam is new. It isn't.