Think
about buying stocks or bonds, or any investment you make as an individual.
I was wondering what's the best way to go
about buying stocks?
The most important thing to know
about buying stocks is that you have finite capital and finite time to reach your goal.
It's not
about buying stocks with borrowed money.
How
about buying stocks..?
You know the saying
about buying stocks, «Think like an owner.»
Thinking
about buying stock in Apple, Advanced Micro Devices, NVIDIA, Procter & Gamble or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited?
If there is even the slightest chance of a forced sale due to a personal need for cash, don't even think
about buying the stock.
To find the answer to this question Warren Buffett recently said that when you are thinking
about buying stock in a company or making an investment you should: «assign yourself a story.»
Say you are thinking
about buying stock in a specific company; before you invest, you may want to learn more about that company's mission and corporate values or get a better understanding of the products it produces.
Have you thought
about buying stock in a certain company but just didn't have the capital to make a trade?
Not exact matches
Nusseibeh's comments highlight Buffett's famous line from 2008 when he said: «Whether we're talking
about socks or
stocks, I like
buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.»
An investor who
bought Google
stock 13 years ago at its IPO price of $ 85 would now own a piece of the company worth
about 22 times their original investment.
The
stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could
buy the retail operations of oil and gas giant Hess, which owns
about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.
Radio frequency chipmakers RF Micro Devices will
buy peer TriQuint Semiconductor for
about $ 1.6 billion in an all -
stock deal to create a company that could better compete in selling chips to mobile - handset makers.
Baader Bank analyst Christian Weiz said he estimated the deal valued Sun Products at
about 2.3 times sales, which he said seemed very attractive, affirming his «
buy» recommendation on Henkel's
stock.
This includes $ 4 million in severance pay, the accelerated vesting of 5.1 million unvested
stock units (worth
about $ 15 million) plus options to
buy more, as well as a cash payments of either $ 1 million or the cash bonus he would have been entitled to in 2015, whichever is less.
Meanwhile, Apple re-placed Microsoft as the world's most valuable tech company, and prominent Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs raised doubts
about investing in the company's
stock, downgrading its rating from
Buy to Neutral.
The sharp moves this week have raised questions
about how quickly investors would be willing to
buy stocks at lower prices or stay cautious amid the threat of higher inflation.
The «Squawk on the Street» news team talks
about Marvell's agreement to
buy rival chipmaker Cavium for $ 6 billion in cash and
stock.
(Since Kraft agreed to
buy Cadbury early last year, Kraft
stock has risen
about 11 %, to $ 32 per share).
IBM has aggressively used cash to
buy back its
stock, a move Buffett has often criticized companies
about.
• Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp will
buy ILG Inc (Nasdaq: ILG) in a cash and
stock deal worth
about $ 4.7 billion.
He points out that the company's business model allows it to turn its inventory around
about twice as many times as its peers and its strong free cash flow — the company has
about $ 4 of cash per share, he says — could be used to
buy back
stocks, which it has done in the past.
This crock has pretty much imploded over the last few years, although I sense a creeping rebirth when I hear the President talk
about how the JOBS legislation is such a triumph of democracy since pretty soon every Tom, Dick and Harry will be able to
buy and own cheap
stocks, and raise money through new and virtually unregulated crowd - funding vehicles.
Dominion Energy on Wednesday it would
buy Scana in an all -
stock deal that values the electric utility company at
about $ 7.9 billion.
«Whether we're talking
about socks or
stocks, I like
buying quality merchandise when it is marked down,» Buffett wrote.
Most people think building wealth is a lot
about investing and
buying the right
stocks.
Carl Icahn already owns nearly 20 % of Herbalife
stock, and he's thinking
about buying a lot more — if not all of it.
Though Clarke thinks the chances of such a suit are slim, she advises that «you'd be wise to look out for what you're saying whenever you're talking to someone
about buying or selling
stock.»
Generic drugmaker Mylan has proposed
buying Perrigo for
about $ 29 billion in cash and
stock in what would be the biggest pharmaceutical deal of the year so far.
You have a full - time job meaning you don't have the time to be learning more
about the
stock market, plus
buying and managing rental property, plus starting a side business.
«Mad Money» Host Jim Cramer sees a major shift in the economy that is going to make investors think twice
about which retail
stocks to
buy and sell.
Right now,
about half of all analysts that cover the
stock have
buy rating, while the other half have a hold.
However, in my three decades of experience coupled with reading
about markets before my time, the only strategy that I see standing the test of time is to
buy solid blue chip dividend - paying
stocks from diverse industries, hold them for the long term, and diversify them properly with a judicious allocation to bonds and cash.
Marriott Vacations Worldwide agreed to
buy ILG for
about $ 4.7 billion in a
stock and cash deal, creating the largest luxury brand for timeshare vacation resorts.
He did
buy some
stock in January 2016, when markets corrected, and he's holding
about 20 % of his portfolio in cash that he intends to deploy when the companies he wants to own take a dive.
Shares are up
about 3 % today in a mixed market for tech
stocks, but the rise does not seem directly related to the
stock buy.
Think
about it; if you were unlucky enough to
buy into the
stock market at the peak in 2008, just before the financial crisis hit full force, your gains (excluding dividends) wouldn't
buy you much more than two loaves of price - fixed bread at Loblaws and a bag of President's Choice sour grapes.
Newell Rubbermaid said it will
buy Jarden in a cash - and -
stock deal that could lead to annual cost savings of
about $ 500 million over four years.
«When we meet with the institutional investors who
buy our
stock, they want to know
about the HSAs, but many don't have them,» Neeleman says.
Shares of Yahoo (yhoo)
stock were barely changed for the day after the news, while shares of Verizon Communications (vz), which has agreed to
buy the company's Internet business, were up
about 1 %.
The «Squawk on the Street» team talks
about Salesforce's biggest acquisition to date,
buying software company Mulesoft in a deal worth $ 44.89 per share in cash and
stock.
Sprint
stock was
about 12 percent lower, under $ 6 per share, in premarket trade Monday after it agreed to be
bought by T - Mobile U.S. in an all -
stock deal worth $ 26.5 billion.
LUSARDI: Question three has to do
about risk diversification: «Do you think the following statement is true or false:
buying a single company
stock usually provides a safer return than a
stock mutual fund.»
Even if you
bought the
stock in 2017 with a P / E ratio as «cheap» as 10, you would have lost
about 50 % of your money in the following months.
Facebook
bought the photo - sharing social network for
about $ 1 billion in cash and
stock before Istagram was generating any revenue.
Tesla's enigmatic founder and CEO, Elon Musk, insisted investors «are concerned
about volatility... should definitely not
buy our
stock» after the clean - energy carmaker posted a reocrd quarterly loss.
Mizuho Securities's Abhey Lamba Sunday issued a note to clients cutting his rating on Apple (AAPL) shares to Neutral from
Buy, and cut his price target to $ 150 from $ 160, after deciding the
stock's run - up this year has «fully captured» the enthusiasm
about the next iPhone, especially as pricing above $ 1,000 may not help stimulate new user demand.
The other day we talked
about the possibility of index - y global
stock funds
buying mainland Chinese shares at what look like rather excited prices, and here it is: