What Stocks Are You Holding?

**clatoden99** · 08-30-2016, 01:17 AM

It depends on your investment strategy and how well diversified you want your portfolio to be. I like to be flexible in my holding positions, so I can be well protected against any market shortcomings.

**creditcardfree** · 08-30-2016, 02:23 AM

I hold all the ones in the S&P 500.

**bjl584** · 08-30-2016, 04:30 AM

Caterpillar
Alcoa
Verizon
BP
Cisco
Pfizer
New York Community Bank
First Energy

**FLA** · 08-30-2016, 06:09 PM

I use Vanguard index funds:

S+P 500
Total stock market
Total Bond market

I meet with their CFP in a few weeks to see if I'm on track.

I am open to input.

**corn18** · 08-30-2016, 06:57 PM

I think I own some of all of them. Both domestic and international.

**frugal saver** · 08-30-2016, 11:07 PM

In my mutual funds, I'm probably holding all the ones mentioned in the above two lists.

But for my chose-them-myself stocks, I have:

General Electric
Proctor & Gamble
National Grid
Philip Morris
Welltower
Conoco Phillips
American Electric Power
Clorox
Southern Co.

I'm hard-pressed right now to find a stock that isn't overpriced, even just adding to my own positions.

The only stock currently on my want-to-buy list is Wells Fargo.

**scfr** · 08-31-2016, 06:05 AM

We own no individual stocks. Our stock ownership is through Vanguard balanced funds.

In our lives we have made a grand total of 2 individual stock purchases and sales. Both times we made small profits. It did not result in a burning desire to become day traders.

One of my employers offers an ESPP; I do not participate.

I would not want to rely on investments in individual stocks unless I owned shares in at least 100 different companies for diversification. I can imagine holding a few individual stocks as a hobby (and don't think there is anything wrong with that), but haven't found any to buy myself. Every time I have developed an interest in a what I thought was a quality company and researched it, I found out that it was privately held. That told me something.

**Jluke** · 08-31-2016, 06:43 AM

AAPL, GOOG, GOOGL, IBM, SIRI, BRK.B, CAT, MO, UNH, F, XOM

others:
VTI, VYM, VWINX, SPY

**safari** · 08-31-2016, 12:33 PM

My best individual stock investment to date has been NVDA. It's up over 100% since I purchased it in January of this year, so I more than doubled my initial investment in 8 months. It's been very tempting to cash in, but I think I am going to wait till January of next year, so that I can take advantage of the 15% long term tax rate.

**sv2007** · 08-31-2016, 04:42 PM

Confederated slave holdings

: )

**Tabs** · 09-04-2016, 05:08 AM

Personally, I no longer play around with individual stocks and ETF anymore, as I just don't have the time like I used to do the requisite homework.

That said, I still hold a position on USO. They are SEVERELY beaten down, and regardless of what anyone in the automotive industry or whoever else is saying, oil and nat gas is still something the country depends on. I don't think the likes of Saudi Arabia can flood the market forever. Everything is out of whack, but the result is that USO is fire sale.

I've since exited my other stocks and ETFs, but I'm just going to hang on to this for a while and see how it goes.

Originally posted by safari View Post

My best individual stock investment to date has been NVDA. It's up over 100% since I purchased it in January of this year, so I more than doubled my initial investment in 8 months. It's been very tempting to cash in, but I think I am going to wait till January of next year, so that I can take advantage of the 15% long term tax rate.

Oooh I like the way you think on this one. You could probably hold it for a bit longer if you really wanted to, because in terms of competition, their current gen is without equal. Also, remember that their mobile chip (X1) is said to power the next Nintendo console and the prospects on that one looks good too (along with rumors of a PROPER Pok�mon AR game). Of course, there's also the emerging "deep learning" market that they are marketing, who knows, but it's all bullish.

But no need to be greedy though eh? 100% is still quite the profit.

**safari** · 09-04-2016, 01:02 PM

Originally posted by Tabs View Post

Oooh I like the way you think on this one. You could probably hold it for a bit longer if you really wanted to, because in terms of competition, their current gen is without equal. Also, remember that their mobile chip (X1) is said to power the next Nintendo console and the prospects on that one looks good too (along with rumors of a PROPER Pok�mon AR game). Of course, there's also the emerging "deep learning" market that they are marketing, who knows, but it's all bullish.

But no need to be greedy though eh? 100% is still quite the profit.

The thing that first attracted me to NVDA was the fact that they are one of the major players in the self-driving car technology, which is growing rapidly and will be the future of the auto industry. I think it's going to be a solid investment for a few years, which is why I will only be selling the profit portion of the shares and keeping my initial investment for future growth.

**james.hendrickson** · 09-08-2016, 06:16 PM

NVDA earnings look good - but what about their management? Are the people in charge flakes, unethical?

Warren Buffets statement - invest in businesses that an idiot could run because one day an idiot will run the business, is probably correct.

**JBinKC** · 09-20-2016, 06:10 AM

Most of my portfolio is in either cash or invested in merger arbitrage companies with BNKJF being my largest holding of those names and overall.
In the remaining portfolio my top 5 positions are UNH CALVF Cloud Peak junk bonds, PNRA and LEE

What Stocks Are You Holding?