Question about holding onto a stock

Was going to ask for more info and all that jazz, but it's 2 grand. Just let it ride.

“The best holding period is forever.”

Warren Buffett

Selling winners is not the best way to make money. Prune losers. Let winners run.

In Roth so no tax. In that case I would probably sell but I am a believer in index funds because I dont think I have any special ability to beat the market consistently.

I’d hold, more than one talking head has said this is the year of MnM. Plus they are so intertwined into everything even if a better competitor would pop up today, it’s take years to replace M/S.

I started buying at $160, still holding

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4 shares isn't much, and the dividend that comes with it amounts to next to nothing.

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This is how I handle my Roth; which I consider my Social Security replacement.

I have an unorthdox approach that works for me so far. I buy stocks like MSFT, Google, Meta and buy in what I call pods of X dollars. My idea of pods are no more than 5% of the total portfolio value. So I never risk more than 5% of the portfolio on any given investment. I diversify those pods across growth/dividend or growth stocks by industries. When a pod hits at least 25% growth value, I sell the profits and put it into an index fund that produces a dividend funds like JEPI, JEPQ, Schwab, etc. I drip all dividends. As the portfolio grows the pod size grows and produces larger profit payouts to invest back into dividend focused index funds.

But there is nothing wrong with just holding on to a winning stock like Microsoft. 10 years from now that value could double again.