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Really would a 5 stock portfolio of say coke,chevron,phillip morris,altria, and mcdonalds be considered risky? That would give you average yield of almost 4% with incredible blue chips....even if its only 5 companies, if those companies have great products and solid balance sheet, who cares if you're diversified into 100+ companies or whatever the media tells you to diversify into?

To your point, I ran a quick chart with those companies compared to a solid large cap MF over the last 5 years:

Only Chevron has under-performed the MF... the rest have soundly beaten the MF. And best of all, the 5 stocks' yields are about double that of the MF.

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Posted by ThaBigFella

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Member since Apr 2006

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Posted on 6/20/13 at 9:43 pm to RidiculousHype

haha nice....and like i said earlier in this thread, i like chevron but the growth just isnt there for me, bc the countries that are really ramping up oil usage india and china specifically have different oil sources ie sinopec in china.

That chart is exactly why i do not index...nice to see PM as the top performer with MO slightly behind!!! I still have to defend the smoking thesis to most haha

This post was edited on 6/20/13 at 9:47 pm

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Posted by jimbeam

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Posted on 6/20/13 at 9:45 pm to RidiculousHype

Hmm.
Would stocks as first investments be wise? At the end of the summer I plan to put in a couple grand. Was thinking a Vanguard equity fund preliminarily.

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