If you had to pick one stock for the next 18 years.

SGY. Plenty of bang for your buck.

I would set the buy price a lot higher than that. You will get eaten up with transaction fees.

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I would set the buy price a lot higher than that. You will get eaten up with transaction fees.

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This. You are gonna lose 5-8% or whatever you fee is per trade at 100%.

Also id buy them index funds if you want something for 18 years

dont do sharebuilder, do direct DRIPs through the companies, not sure if apple offers one but many do i think the co is computershare, i personally dont use it but theyre real you can buy a set amount at set intervals to dollar cost average.

Amazon is a great co, but it doesnt pay a dividend, obviously it can grow exponentially still but the thing with dividends is adding a bigger piece of the pie every quarter combined with a growth in the dividend is a monster monster return. Like if you take apple stock and it goes nowhere for 20 years and you just reinvest a dividend that grows at 9% even, not the share price just the dividend, you still get prob 3-4x your initial investment.

If apple goes up at all its significantly more

people always say that but what if the world markets dont do much of anything for a while but specific things like nike or starbucks or amazon or facebook continue growing. Do you have faith that walmart,home depot, ross stores, countless other retail garbage, and old time stocks that boomed over the last half century do the same for the next 50 years? There's no sense in investing in the past, investing in the future is whats necessary and buying VTSMX or SPY or whatever is overdiversifying if thats even possible.

I dont see how any one of these is a terrible investment over the next 30 years

facebook
google
apple
amazon
microsoft
starbucks
nike

just stuff your portfolio with one or all of those and youll be fine

The thing with these giant tech companies is we've never seen anything like them in our history. The margins, the amount of global GDP they could generate as they expand their tentacles. Facebook,Google,Amazon are nearly full blown monopolies at this point. Their moats are enormous whose breaking them??? If it was that simple to launch a google,amazon,facebook clone it wouldve been done, people have been trying. Augmented Reality IMO is the next big horizon in the tech world and its going to be enormous thats why i suggested the QQQ bc someone is going to nail it and its going to be remarkable. Look up googles investment in magic leap and tell me thats not the coolest thing youve ever seen, watch the demo

As for apple, they have the best ecosystem in the world, the best brand, and a loyal following, yes yes yes but blackberry blah blah, blackberry never had apples ecosystem,retail front, nor its grip with computer,laptops, and ipads. Apple is here to stay bc of that ecosystem which is music,payments,everything. That $200B+ cash hoard isnt something you burn through in a short while, it will be a very long time even if apple began dying tomorrow before a company could burn that type of cash.

Enron was an accountin sham and blockbuster was a 1 trick pony, if you look at all the companies that went bust, the big ones, they were mostly 1 trick ponies. Look how diversifed the ones i just named are: google adwords ir probably the most efficient business in the history of mankind, look at the margins it generates. Amazon shuts down? People would literally be lost, its an integral part of our lives from shopping to our tvs now. Facebook is a printing press, the monopoly is monstrous its even taking some of googles ad business, fb is projecting like 35% growth for the next few years thats just disgusting.

We've never seen anything like these 350B+ companies like apple,google,facebook,amazon. They're literally the size of exxon, blockbuster was never up there in market cap

K and reinvest dividends.

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