Here are My Top Growth Stock Picks for 2020. I do own all of these stocks but two. FORTINET NETFLIX MIMECASE TYLER TECHNOLOGIES IDEXX CHEWY GENPACT FACEBOOK This chart provides a summary of data I look at when evaluating growth stocks-Things like EPS growth (quarterly and yearly basis) Return on Equity Predicted EPS growth Cash…
The two main ETF’s I’m buying this month are QQQ and ITOT. QQQ is weighted towards the Nasdaq and technology. I think during this Coronavirus crash, weighing heavier towards technology is a wise move. So far, it has paid off quite well. I just added $400 to my ROTH IRA and $500 to my Traditional…
Here is my latest youtube video where I detail how my GROWTH stocks are killing my DIVIDEND stocks. How are your dividend stocks fairing in this Coronavirus Correction? I’ve had THREE Dividend cuts and that sure hasn’t helped things My top performers continue to be Fortinet, Netflix, and General Mills. I am up over 30%…
I will preface this article by stating I do a good bit of “Dividend Investing.” At the same time, it is not all I do. One common argument by dividend investors is that by focusing on Dividends, you are more protected during a market correction, recession or bear market. How has that technique faired in…
While I said I was working on REDUCING positions, I managed to INCREASE positions. I guess the deals got too good. I started a small position in HOME DEPOT. I do feel it can go a little lower here but Home Depot will be fine long-term and I thought it was a good chance to…
I recently began supercharging my portfolio with more growth and tech stocks. Fortinet had an earnings report today. How did it do? Fortinet beat earnings and revenue. A 21% increase in revenue year over year here. Earnings of .76 vs. .59 from this quarter a year ago. So, that is looking pretty awesome here. Gross…
In efforts to supercharge my portfolio with some growth stocks I recently added Fortinet to the lineup: Fortinet is a Cybersecurity company with some nice fundamentals. They do the usual firewall security stuff; however, one of their hot-ticket items is SD-WAN (Software-defined wide Area Networks). They have even surpassed Cisco with sales in SD-WAN. Their…
Personally, I’m pleased with the new NFLX report. I don’t think NFLX was as affected by the other streaming services as they thought they would be. I also think it shows the possibilities of international growth for Netflix in the future. Just today, we got an announcement that there is going to be a Witcher…
Lately, I’ve been discussing TOTAL RETURN a lot. Many young dividend investors chase high yielding investments without considering TOTAL RETURN. However, your goal is to have a larger and larger number in your account at the end of this game for retirement, so you not only want dividends, you want growth and large price appreciation…
I started the first week of 2020 by buying more Netflix and Akamai. I want to increase tech/growth exposure in my portfolio going forward. What have I sold? I sold all of my Kroger in my IRA for around 17-18% profit, I sold all of my shares of 3M for about a 5% gain, Verizon…
First and foremost, I want to say that 2019 was a great year in investing for me. It marked my first year of really being an active investor. Previously, most of my investing choices were index funds. POSITIVES?-Increased my Cash Flow/Dividends tremendously -ROTH IRA which was three index funds was up 30%, Traditional IRA was…