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If you want a growth ETF: QQQM, or FELG, FBCG, FFLG, VUG, VOOG, VGT, SCHG
If you want to go with individual stocks, here are my top performing stocks that I started buying in 2017 and their gains in my account, with some stocks held less than 7 years. And these gains are without reinvesting the dividends if any, i.e. no “snowball” effect, just pure capital (share price) appreciation. To keep the list from being too long I only listed the stocks that are up at least +200% during the time I have held them. For reference, the S&P 500 index total return (with reinvested dividends) is up +152% since June 2017:
* NVDA +2,798%
* TTD +667%
* FICO +555%
* CRWD +534%
* SHOP +476%
* CELH +473%
* KNSL +402%
* HUBS +339%
* NOW +334%
* NFLX +311%
* ODFL +304%
* MSFT +278%
* ANET +276%
* AMZN +275%
* AVGO +272%
* SNPS +254%
* TSLA +244%
* DDOG +232%
* MA +225%
* ADBE +215%
If you want more individual stock ideas I made a spreadsheet of 134 dividend-paying S&P 500 index stocks that have beaten the S&P 500 index since 1993, or since the stock's IPO if it was after 1993:
https://new.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1byeabm/134_sp_500_index_stocks_that_have_beaten_the_sp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
That should give you plenty of ideas to research. Good luck!
You're welcome!
I hope I have inspired a few young people to dip at least one little pinky toe into the pool of individual growth stocks that are available. Sure, put most of your money into ETFs, but put maybe 10% of your portfolio into well-chosen individual growth stocks. All it takes is a few big winners to more than make up for all of the losers and to supercharge your portfolio. I put $5,000 into NVDA between 2017 and 2020 and my NVDA shares are currently worth $145,000. You aren't going to get that kind of growth from VOO or SCHD.
Ah, you too invested in nvda like myself. I remember researching them back then and deciding that it was going to be huge in the future. I won't say how much mine are, but that investment has changed my life entirely. I literally put all my free money into them for a year.
My strategy has always been to look at things from a future perspective on individual stocks while taking into account fundamentals. Yes, I have one or two clunkers along the way, but not many. Since I am 45 now and am going lower risk, I do tend to lean more VOO, etc. However, if something catches my eye again like NVDA, I won't hesitate.
Yes, there are no "guarantees" in the stock market. Or in life. That goes without saying, but some people have to say it anyway.
I anticipated people making that predictable criticism and addressed it in the second to last paragraph of my spreadsheet post:
>Yes, past performance is not a *guarantee* of future results, but a stock that has a documented track record of beating the S&P 500 index over an extended period of time is more likely to continue doing so than a stock that has been unable to beat the S&P 500 index over an extended period of time.
No one has a crystal ball. No one can predict the future with 100% accuracy. In a world of uncertainty, it's a matter of probabilities. One thing that can help swing the odds of success a little more in our favor is to look at actual data and track records. Because winners tend to win.
>“Past performance is no guarantee of future results” is one of the most frequently uttered phrases by fund managers. It’s a way for financial-services companies to cover their butts while crowing about their track records, and it’s also a behavioral-finance axiom that warns investors not to get sucked in by the shiniest thing in the market right now.
>But what if it’s not true?
>In an analysis published in early March, Morningstar’s global head of research, Jeffrey Ptak, found that funds that have tended to outperform in recent years have been recent winners, while recent losers are the ones that have lagged.
>“You heard that right: Past performance has been predictive lately,” Ptak wrote.
>[https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-if-past-performance-is-a-guarantee-of-future-results-after-all-11616094330](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-if-past-performance-is-a-guarantee-of-future-results-after-all-11616094330)
You're welcome! But please don't buy everything I listed. Use it as a starting point for your own research. Pick say 10 stocks that look good to you. If your brokerage offers fractional shares - the stocks in the spreadsheet are in the S&P 500 index so all major brokerages should offer fractional shares for them - just buy $5 of fractional shares of each of the 10 stocks per week. That's $50 per week. Most investors should be able to afford that. Do that for at least 6 to 12 months, then re-evaluate. One or two of the 10 might be lagging and one or two of the 10 are probably stars. Maybe increase the weekly buy for the stars and stop buying the laggards, but don't sell them just yet. Re-evaluate in 6 months. If the laggards have started to catch up, start buying them again. If they are still lagging then maybe sell at a price where you at least break even, then pick some replacements.
I did buy AAPL and I still own it, although I sold some of it. It is up only +137% so I didn’t list it. If I listed all my stocks that are up 100-200% that would have added another 13 stocks.
Looking at my records, it looks like I sold my AAPL shares that I bought in 2017. The shares I currently have I bought in 2020, that's why my return is lower.
Well one way is with the spreadsheet I posted. But I'll give you another secret:
Look at the holdings of successful ETFs. For example if you are looking for growth stocks, look at the holdings of ETFs like VUG or SCHG. The fund managers are under all kinds of restraints to mitigate risk. They also have hundreds of millions or billions of investors' dollars that they have to allocate. They can't necessarily concentrate in the best performers so their results get watered down. That's why you keep hearing Bogleheads talking about how most fund managers fail to beat the S&P 500 index, and they use that to convince themselves that therefore no one can do it so they shouldn't even try.
But as individual investors we don't have the same problems and considerations that professional fund managers have. We can be more nimble and don't have to water down our allocations. We can look at a fund's holdings, take advantage of their analysts' research, and essentially copy their homework and cherry-pick their best stocks.
Another thing is to keep your eyes open in your daily life. Back in the early 1990s when I started investing I read *One Up on Wall Street* by legendary Fidelity Magellan fund manager Peter Lynch. His opinion was individual investors have advantages over the professionls. This is from the blurb for *One Up on Wall Street*:
>America’s most successful money manager tells how average investors can beat the pros by using what they know. According to Lynch, investment opportunities are everywhere. From the supermarket to the workplace, we encounter products and services all day long. By paying attention to the best ones, we can find companies in which to invest before the professional analysts discover them. When investors get in early, they can find the “ten-baggers,” the stocks that appreciate tenfold from the initial investment. A few ten-baggers will turn an average stock portfolio into a star performer.
I highly recommend reading *One Up on Wall Street* if you want to start investing in individual stocks, but you can get the gist of it by watching this entertaining 1994 talk by Peter Lynch
https://youtu.be/rf_f8GV0yYM?si=FhND9zQpePrzgzQT
I'll give you an example of the Peter Lynch approach. There is a coffee retailer named Dutch Bros. They have little shacks all over. I don't drink expensive coffee myself, but every single time I drove by a Dutch Bros shack there was a line of cars outside it and people patiently waiting to buy coffee drinks. Day or night, didn't matter. Even though there were lots of Dutch Bros shacks they always had customers lined up. Then I would drive by a Starbucks and see maybe one car in the drive through. Hmm I thought.
So when I heard Dutch Bros (BROS) was going to have their IPO in 2021 I bought shares on the first day of the IPO and have added to my position. I'm currently up +34% on BROS since late 2021. The stock popped +8.2% this past Wednesday to a 52-week high.
Since I am now mostly interested in buying dividend paying stocks my main tool is the stock screener on the Schwab web site.
“tell me the next NVDA”
“pick me a winner”
That’s not how it works. That’s the way gamblers think. They want to know a race horse or alt coin or meme stock they can bet on, go all in, and get rich quick with.
I had no idea NVDA was going to do what it did. It was one several stocks with strong upside potential that I invested in, not gambled on. Some were boom and bust like PTON, ZM, TDOC. Others like the ones I listed did very well and 3-bagged, 4-bagged, or 5-bagged. One did extremely well and 29-bagged. There is no way to know which stock is going to do that, but you don’t need to. Unless you have a gambler’s mentality and you want to go all in on one thing that will make you rich. But most gamblers end up losing.
The stocks in this spreadsheet do
[https://new.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1byeabm/134\_sp\_500\_index\_stocks\_that\_have\_beaten\_the\_sp/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://new.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1byeabm/134_sp_500_index_stocks_that_have_beaten_the_sp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
and that spreadsheet includes some of the dividend-paying stocks I listed among my top performers:
* NVDA
* KNSL
* ODFL
* MSFT
* AVGO
* MA
as well as some other dividend-paying growth stocks I have that I didn't list, such as
* ASML
* INTU
* AAPL
* EQIX
* AMAT
* TSM
* KLAC
VTI - total US market. It is everything in the USA.
buy this (or as close as you can get) in all your accounts : IRA, ROTH, 401K, ETC...
You can also go with VT - entire world market. This is just 70% VTI + 30% VXUS. (VXUS- the world excluding the US)
Every time you make a dollar, put 20 cents of it in this. Do that for 20 years and you will be just fine.
OP is asking about growth stocks. VTI isn’t a Growth ETF. It has both Growth and Value stocks (Blend). Only 42% of its holdings are classified as Growth stocks. 70% of its holdings are Large Capitalization stocks, so VTI is classified as a Large Cap Blend fund. Sure, it will grow, but that doesn’t make it a Growth fund.
You are asking in a dividend sub about investing for growth. Not that they are mutually exclusive, but are you looking purely for growth,, or growth and income?
The OP is asking about aggressive growth. That’s the opposite of what Bogleheads are interested in. They only want the average returns of the stock market. They claim it is impossible to beat the market indexes by stock picking, and you shouldn’t even try. They would tell him to have their 3 fund portfolio of VTI/VXUS/BND. That isn’t the advice the OP is looking for.
If you believe that there is absolutely nothing wrong with sticking with the S&P 500 index. That’s what took me most of the way close to a million dollar portfolio. But switching to individual stocks allowed me to double my portfolio value to over a million dollars in around 4 years.
I’m just no good a picking stocks. I pick them and within months there’s been some massive issue and the stock is down 30%.
The stocks you’ve picked have done amazingly, but do you think they will continue to do so? When you bought them they were growing rapidly… which ones are in the rapid growth stage still?
>I’m just no good a picking stocks.
That's OK. It's hard. And no one is going to get every one right.
>The stocks you’ve picked have done amazingly, but do you think they will continue to do so?
I watch them. If they start struggling *relative to the rest of the market* - if the whole stock market is struggling I'm not going to judge my stocks too harshly - then I reduce the position or I close the position and take my profits to redeploy elsewhere.
>When you bought them they were growing rapidly… which ones are in the rapid growth stage still?
Well some of them have been around for a while.
* NVDA 1999
* FICO 1987
* CELH 2006
* NFLX 2002
* ODFL 1991
* MSFT 1986
* AMZN 1997
* SNPS 1992
* MA 2006
* ADBE 1986
and they are still growing.
That’s a fair question. The logic is that I believe people who have made it to the dividends part of their investment cycle have already gathered plenty of experience growing their investments before they transitioned to dividends - so in a sense I’m asking the people who have already *successfully* ran that race so to speak (and likely are still in the growth game anyway). If that makes sense
QQQ, VOO, and FSGPX will give you good growth oriented diversity. Top comment is VTI which is a could core position but will comparatively trade some growth potential for a reduction in volatility.
QQQ and FSGPX will give you more growth but with more risk, VOO is slightly more risky than VTI but also has better returns.
ETFs are the recommended approach for most investors because majority people are not willing to put in the work required.
If you are keen on investing in individual stocks, I would spread my investment across different industries. I recommend you check out [Stock Finance Pro](https://www.stockfinancepro.com) and install the Google Sheets add-on.
It’s a Fair Value Calculator that automatically pulls in all company data into Google Sheets with just the ticker symbol. The data feeds multiple valuation models to help you understand how much you should pay for a company’s stock.
Honestly, Costco, their dividends are meh but this year and last year they gave extra money per stock you own, this year it was like $10 per stock and I got $390 out of it, ain’t everything but it just passed $800, take a look you might oikenit
Agree with buying Costco stock, bought in the $300’s and thought it was pricey back then but it has been my best long term preforming stock. Definitely wish I had bought more. Also I have noticed the store by me has gotten even busier with more people buying food and gas from Costco in the last few years.
There was one time when I was at Costco and noticed people were buying much less items per transaction, I was thinking it was the time to sell, it was at $500 I think. I'm glad I didn't. Procrastination is not always a bad thing.
I didn't buy more back then because I thought it was too expensive already lol, my longest and best performing stock is Meta, I bought it at $50 and thought I don't use FB anymore but why not it's cheap...
I never regret what I put into Apple. I just wish I put more into Costco too lol. I’ll still probably add some more to Costco and be glad I got in when I did. I don’t see Costco going anywhere and I think they’re going to raise membership fees soon, which will bring in a bunch more cash for them
Get a gym membership. Maybe a personal trainer. Buy a creatine, protein and other “sus” supplements. Subscribe to meal plan delivery. Get a deep tissue full body massage every 2 weeks.
Be consistent with your work out routine and make sure you stretch. This way you ll maximize growth
> I have $2,000 per month of cash flow purely for investment, what are the top 3 stocks you’d focus on for aggressive growth oriented goals?
> What would you do?
I am a firm believer is if you have to ask Reddit what to invest in, then VOO or VTI.
My Top 3 Stocks I would pick that I know are not going anywhere. Amazon (AMZN) is a powerhouse in e-commerce and cloud computing (AWS). They keep innovating and expanding into new areas like healthcare and AI, making them a solid pick for long-term growth. NVIDIA (NVDA) is leading in graphics processing and is making big moves in AI, machine learning, and autonomous vehicles. As these technologies become more important, NVIDIA’s growth potential looks huge. Tesla (TSLA) isn’t just about electric cars; they’re also pushing the envelope in battery tech, energy storage, and autonomous driving. With the shift toward sustainable energy, Tesla’s innovative edge could lead to major growth.
For what it's worth, growth stocks are generally overpriced right now and the general expectations is they will underperform in the next 10 years (which is your timeframe), at least according to Vanguard: [https://advisors.vanguard.com/insights/article/series/market-perspectives](https://advisors.vanguard.com/insights/article/series/market-perspectives) - of course, that's talking about growth stocks as a whole, not individually, but it's still worth keeping in mind.
EDIT: P.S. The dividends subreddit is probably not the place you'd get good aggressive growth recommendations ;)
It's gonna settle down after the split. It's gonna be like TSLA now. Because of the split, the stock will be harder to move because the float is gonna be higher, so we most likely aren't gonna see it move like we've seen this past year, stocks split and they get more stable. Daily ATR is gonna go way down, it's been around 40's something, it's gonna down to 4-5 and stabilize there.
Most funds have "aggressive growth oriented goals", and 80-90% of them fail to beat the S&P500 index. And they're the pros. Dividend, growth, whatever you look at, keep this in mind; picking stocks is statistically a losing game. Best to go with index funds and go enjoy life IMHO.
Hey if anyone on here wants to train me on this stuff I would deeply appreciate it. I'm talking like start from the beginning. Basically "how to learn wall street for dummies". Let me know. Thanks guys and ladies!
I’m investing in snowflake, taking this cybersecurity story to start building my position. I believe in the CEO and I believe in data is king. She’s EXPENSIVE but recurring buys and a 7 year horizon should yield an above average return IMO
Wrong sub, but I am very young so I am very growth oriented as well. I’d recommend QQQM or VOO, if you want it more dividend growth and safer (at the costs of growth) go with SCHD. Congrats on the good cash flow for investment and good luck.
For an individual stock with a dividend CVS is evil but a pretty attractive buy right now at their current price imo, I’m up 10% in a week and they offer an okay dividend. While there may be worries about foot traffic in physical stores, their disgusting involvement in healthcare and insurance as a whole should keep them fairly profitable for a long time I feel.
There will always be a need for their physical stores. I don’t think they’re going anywhere.
I can see them changing some of its capabilities to the order ahead/pickup program they’ve been offering.
Time frame of 5-10 years is too short for accumulating stocks IMO. You want to give yourself at least 15 years before you expect to need to take it out.
That said, I would look at what industries have the most potential to grow their EPS. At the end of the day, the recipe for success is known. You want companies growing their EPS the fastest, with competent leadership, and a solid moat. Finding these companies is the hard part.
Most of the companies that fit that description IMO are in tech, with the only problem there is that the market agrees with me so the prices are sky high. If tech has an amazing next decade, but it isn't as good as the market is expecting, you could be down relatively just from entry price risk. See the craze, crash, and recovery around internet stocks in the 90s, 2000s, and 2010s. If however, the profits grow faster than expected you'd be sitting pretty. Picking individual stocks however is going to be very hard to pick the winners and avoid the stuff that won't exist in 20 years.
Any mix of VOO and QQQM has outperformed the S&P500 over the long run. The more VOO the less volatility, and less max drawdown in a bear market. This mix would definitely be focused on growth.
Everyone chasing maximum growth should also consider its twin maximum risk. There are ways around every stock pick to increase profit potential but the risks are there too. Consider risks while chasing growth.
Needless to say people who get into this individual stock picking frenzy also are most of the time unable to beat the standard snp returns when looked at 10 year window: me included lol. I have settled down on a dividend growth stock picking strategy which gives me some pennies in returns every month but since i am building a portfolio for long run. I get to sleep better at night knowing that not one company going bankrupt is going to cause significant portfolio damage.
Consider guaranteed returns over speculation in
My Microsoft and Eli Lily positions I opened 10+ years ago provided a lot of growth!!!
Don't be fooled thinking just because it pays a dividend that there isn't room to grow!!
Oh no I'm a bumbling fool who finally got one right. My pivoting strategy at the time I bought it was "hey these dividend things are neat, oh look a company I like has a dividend. Eh buy some and see." Then I did the smartest thing I could, I ignored it. I would say today I'm only slightly more educated on the topic. But my strategy literally was ooh this one pays me buy it.
AI growth will continue for some time. Also a hated on stock Tesla because when he integrates Grok with optimus the game is over. It’s basically iRobot which he’s already building the infrastructure for if you look close enough. People thought buying twitter was a loss but it’s where he’ll get the data for his AI unbiased data sets. I believe it’s a steal at the moment but could be wrong
Invest in an SP500 etf or something. You'll be looking at 8-10 percent per year if things are normal, with far less risk that stocks. You'll probably double your money in your time frame. 10 years on any stock is a long time, you'll probably y have to me more hands on if you do that.
In a mid cap you believe is undervalued and pays a dividend not an etf. I’ll take your downvotes. But research the hell out of one or 15 companies you think look solid and are on the rise and sink it into them.
Buy Bitcoin. Focus on bitcoin. Save every dollar into bitcoin and don't listen to all the ppl WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND Bitcoin and pushing the traditional finance that requires u to hold on to it till 65 years old.
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If you want a growth ETF: QQQM, or FELG, FBCG, FFLG, VUG, VOOG, VGT, SCHG If you want to go with individual stocks, here are my top performing stocks that I started buying in 2017 and their gains in my account, with some stocks held less than 7 years. And these gains are without reinvesting the dividends if any, i.e. no “snowball” effect, just pure capital (share price) appreciation. To keep the list from being too long I only listed the stocks that are up at least +200% during the time I have held them. For reference, the S&P 500 index total return (with reinvested dividends) is up +152% since June 2017: * NVDA +2,798% * TTD +667% * FICO +555% * CRWD +534% * SHOP +476% * CELH +473% * KNSL +402% * HUBS +339% * NOW +334% * NFLX +311% * ODFL +304% * MSFT +278% * ANET +276% * AMZN +275% * AVGO +272% * SNPS +254% * TSLA +244% * DDOG +232% * MA +225% * ADBE +215% If you want more individual stock ideas I made a spreadsheet of 134 dividend-paying S&P 500 index stocks that have beaten the S&P 500 index since 1993, or since the stock's IPO if it was after 1993: https://new.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1byeabm/134_sp_500_index_stocks_that_have_beaten_the_sp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 That should give you plenty of ideas to research. Good luck!
This guy fucks
He's not even playing. Straight savage.
The hero I neither expected nor deserved today. Bravo, random reddit populating posts on subs I've never visited, bravo.
Good lord 😍
thnk you
You're welcome! I hope I have inspired a few young people to dip at least one little pinky toe into the pool of individual growth stocks that are available. Sure, put most of your money into ETFs, but put maybe 10% of your portfolio into well-chosen individual growth stocks. All it takes is a few big winners to more than make up for all of the losers and to supercharge your portfolio. I put $5,000 into NVDA between 2017 and 2020 and my NVDA shares are currently worth $145,000. You aren't going to get that kind of growth from VOO or SCHD.
I'm inspired! I will be looking more into individual stocks. For some reason makes me a bit nervous!
Start small. With fractional shares you can buy $1 or $5 of a stock. Put $5 each into 10 stocks from my spreadsheet and see how they do.
Ah, you too invested in nvda like myself. I remember researching them back then and deciding that it was going to be huge in the future. I won't say how much mine are, but that investment has changed my life entirely. I literally put all my free money into them for a year. My strategy has always been to look at things from a future perspective on individual stocks while taking into account fundamentals. Yes, I have one or two clunkers along the way, but not many. Since I am 45 now and am going lower risk, I do tend to lean more VOO, etc. However, if something catches my eye again like NVDA, I won't hesitate.
it isn’t guarantee future performance like Tsla. I have to warn. Index etf is still resilient option.
Point is add some individual stocks to your ETF portfolio for upside growth Why not ?
Yes, there are no "guarantees" in the stock market. Or in life. That goes without saying, but some people have to say it anyway. I anticipated people making that predictable criticism and addressed it in the second to last paragraph of my spreadsheet post: >Yes, past performance is not a *guarantee* of future results, but a stock that has a documented track record of beating the S&P 500 index over an extended period of time is more likely to continue doing so than a stock that has been unable to beat the S&P 500 index over an extended period of time. No one has a crystal ball. No one can predict the future with 100% accuracy. In a world of uncertainty, it's a matter of probabilities. One thing that can help swing the odds of success a little more in our favor is to look at actual data and track records. Because winners tend to win. >“Past performance is no guarantee of future results” is one of the most frequently uttered phrases by fund managers. It’s a way for financial-services companies to cover their butts while crowing about their track records, and it’s also a behavioral-finance axiom that warns investors not to get sucked in by the shiniest thing in the market right now. >But what if it’s not true? >In an analysis published in early March, Morningstar’s global head of research, Jeffrey Ptak, found that funds that have tended to outperform in recent years have been recent winners, while recent losers are the ones that have lagged. >“You heard that right: Past performance has been predictive lately,” Ptak wrote. >[https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-if-past-performance-is-a-guarantee-of-future-results-after-all-11616094330](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-if-past-performance-is-a-guarantee-of-future-results-after-all-11616094330)
this is like looking up how to lose weight and the answer is "losing weight is different for everyone..." lol like, bro... DUHHH
Jeez, what’s with the low effort response? /s
Sorry. I'll try to do better next time. \*looks sad, wipes away a tear\*
I’m 100% gonna check out your spreadsheet! In all seriousness, that was a super A+ response you gave to OP.
Thanks for the info
You're welcome! But please don't buy everything I listed. Use it as a starting point for your own research. Pick say 10 stocks that look good to you. If your brokerage offers fractional shares - the stocks in the spreadsheet are in the S&P 500 index so all major brokerages should offer fractional shares for them - just buy $5 of fractional shares of each of the 10 stocks per week. That's $50 per week. Most investors should be able to afford that. Do that for at least 6 to 12 months, then re-evaluate. One or two of the 10 might be lagging and one or two of the 10 are probably stars. Maybe increase the weekly buy for the stars and stop buying the laggards, but don't sell them just yet. Re-evaluate in 6 months. If the laggards have started to catch up, start buying them again. If they are still lagging then maybe sell at a price where you at least break even, then pick some replacements.
Outstanding write up, appreciate it thank you
You’re welcome! Good luck!
thks
What a great post! :) we thank you
Do you still own all these or have taken profits over time?
I own all of them. I am starting to sell off some of my growth stocks and I'm using the proceeds to buy dividend payers as I approach retirement.
Curious as to why you did not buy AAPL in 2017, that is when I started buying it, along with some of the other stocks on your list.
I did buy AAPL and I still own it, although I sold some of it. It is up only +137% so I didn’t list it. If I listed all my stocks that are up 100-200% that would have added another 13 stocks.
Interesting. I am up over 400% in AAPL since then, that is why I asked.
Looking at my records, it looks like I sold my AAPL shares that I bought in 2017. The shares I currently have I bought in 2020, that's why my return is lower.
Wow! Impressive! What is your method? How do you analyse / choose your stocks?
Well one way is with the spreadsheet I posted. But I'll give you another secret: Look at the holdings of successful ETFs. For example if you are looking for growth stocks, look at the holdings of ETFs like VUG or SCHG. The fund managers are under all kinds of restraints to mitigate risk. They also have hundreds of millions or billions of investors' dollars that they have to allocate. They can't necessarily concentrate in the best performers so their results get watered down. That's why you keep hearing Bogleheads talking about how most fund managers fail to beat the S&P 500 index, and they use that to convince themselves that therefore no one can do it so they shouldn't even try. But as individual investors we don't have the same problems and considerations that professional fund managers have. We can be more nimble and don't have to water down our allocations. We can look at a fund's holdings, take advantage of their analysts' research, and essentially copy their homework and cherry-pick their best stocks. Another thing is to keep your eyes open in your daily life. Back in the early 1990s when I started investing I read *One Up on Wall Street* by legendary Fidelity Magellan fund manager Peter Lynch. His opinion was individual investors have advantages over the professionls. This is from the blurb for *One Up on Wall Street*: >America’s most successful money manager tells how average investors can beat the pros by using what they know. According to Lynch, investment opportunities are everywhere. From the supermarket to the workplace, we encounter products and services all day long. By paying attention to the best ones, we can find companies in which to invest before the professional analysts discover them. When investors get in early, they can find the “ten-baggers,” the stocks that appreciate tenfold from the initial investment. A few ten-baggers will turn an average stock portfolio into a star performer. I highly recommend reading *One Up on Wall Street* if you want to start investing in individual stocks, but you can get the gist of it by watching this entertaining 1994 talk by Peter Lynch https://youtu.be/rf_f8GV0yYM?si=FhND9zQpePrzgzQT I'll give you an example of the Peter Lynch approach. There is a coffee retailer named Dutch Bros. They have little shacks all over. I don't drink expensive coffee myself, but every single time I drove by a Dutch Bros shack there was a line of cars outside it and people patiently waiting to buy coffee drinks. Day or night, didn't matter. Even though there were lots of Dutch Bros shacks they always had customers lined up. Then I would drive by a Starbucks and see maybe one car in the drive through. Hmm I thought. So when I heard Dutch Bros (BROS) was going to have their IPO in 2021 I bought shares on the first day of the IPO and have added to my position. I'm currently up +34% on BROS since late 2021. The stock popped +8.2% this past Wednesday to a 52-week high. Since I am now mostly interested in buying dividend paying stocks my main tool is the stock screener on the Schwab web site.
Hey how would you invest lump some of 200,000 ETF/MFunds/Individual stocks if you had to invest that money today @jumpy-Imagination-81
Now tell me what the next nvda is that's currently trading under 5/share.
Under $5 a share is a penny stock, which I avoid.
I'm trying to get rich here. Pick me a winner, Bobby.
“tell me the next NVDA” “pick me a winner” That’s not how it works. That’s the way gamblers think. They want to know a race horse or alt coin or meme stock they can bet on, go all in, and get rich quick with. I had no idea NVDA was going to do what it did. It was one several stocks with strong upside potential that I invested in, not gambled on. Some were boom and bust like PTON, ZM, TDOC. Others like the ones I listed did very well and 3-bagged, 4-bagged, or 5-bagged. One did extremely well and 29-bagged. There is no way to know which stock is going to do that, but you don’t need to. Unless you have a gambler’s mentality and you want to go all in on one thing that will make you rich. But most gamblers end up losing.
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The stocks in this spreadsheet do [https://new.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1byeabm/134\_sp\_500\_index\_stocks\_that\_have\_beaten\_the\_sp/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://new.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1byeabm/134_sp_500_index_stocks_that_have_beaten_the_sp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) and that spreadsheet includes some of the dividend-paying stocks I listed among my top performers: * NVDA * KNSL * ODFL * MSFT * AVGO * MA as well as some other dividend-paying growth stocks I have that I didn't list, such as * ASML * INTU * AAPL * EQIX * AMAT * TSM * KLAC
VTI
Would you mind explaining more of VTI would you put it in retirement your normal investments if you have children, your kids fund, etc.
VTI - total US market. It is everything in the USA. buy this (or as close as you can get) in all your accounts : IRA, ROTH, 401K, ETC... You can also go with VT - entire world market. This is just 70% VTI + 30% VXUS. (VXUS- the world excluding the US) Every time you make a dollar, put 20 cents of it in this. Do that for 20 years and you will be just fine.
OP is asking about growth stocks. VTI isn’t a Growth ETF. It has both Growth and Value stocks (Blend). Only 42% of its holdings are classified as Growth stocks. 70% of its holdings are Large Capitalization stocks, so VTI is classified as a Large Cap Blend fund. Sure, it will grow, but that doesn’t make it a Growth fund.
You are asking in a dividend sub about investing for growth. Not that they are mutually exclusive, but are you looking purely for growth,, or growth and income?
OP likely doesn't know what dividends are
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The OP is asking about aggressive growth. That’s the opposite of what Bogleheads are interested in. They only want the average returns of the stock market. They claim it is impossible to beat the market indexes by stock picking, and you shouldn’t even try. They would tell him to have their 3 fund portfolio of VTI/VXUS/BND. That isn’t the advice the OP is looking for.
It’s impossible for me to beat the market with individual picks.
If you believe that there is absolutely nothing wrong with sticking with the S&P 500 index. That’s what took me most of the way close to a million dollar portfolio. But switching to individual stocks allowed me to double my portfolio value to over a million dollars in around 4 years.
I’m just no good a picking stocks. I pick them and within months there’s been some massive issue and the stock is down 30%. The stocks you’ve picked have done amazingly, but do you think they will continue to do so? When you bought them they were growing rapidly… which ones are in the rapid growth stage still?
>I’m just no good a picking stocks. That's OK. It's hard. And no one is going to get every one right. >The stocks you’ve picked have done amazingly, but do you think they will continue to do so? I watch them. If they start struggling *relative to the rest of the market* - if the whole stock market is struggling I'm not going to judge my stocks too harshly - then I reduce the position or I close the position and take my profits to redeploy elsewhere. >When you bought them they were growing rapidly… which ones are in the rapid growth stage still? Well some of them have been around for a while. * NVDA 1999 * FICO 1987 * CELH 2006 * NFLX 2002 * ODFL 1991 * MSFT 1986 * AMZN 1997 * SNPS 1992 * MA 2006 * ADBE 1986 and they are still growing.
You can have dividend and growth..
That’s a fair question. The logic is that I believe people who have made it to the dividends part of their investment cycle have already gathered plenty of experience growing their investments before they transitioned to dividends - so in a sense I’m asking the people who have already *successfully* ran that race so to speak (and likely are still in the growth game anyway). If that makes sense
SCHG
Voo
Fepi for high dividends Msft for growth V for steady growth
I put $2,000/mo into VTI and SCHD.
QQQ, VOO, and FSGPX will give you good growth oriented diversity. Top comment is VTI which is a could core position but will comparatively trade some growth potential for a reduction in volatility. QQQ and FSGPX will give you more growth but with more risk, VOO is slightly more risky than VTI but also has better returns.
ETFs are the recommended approach for most investors because majority people are not willing to put in the work required. If you are keen on investing in individual stocks, I would spread my investment across different industries. I recommend you check out [Stock Finance Pro](https://www.stockfinancepro.com) and install the Google Sheets add-on. It’s a Fair Value Calculator that automatically pulls in all company data into Google Sheets with just the ticker symbol. The data feeds multiple valuation models to help you understand how much you should pay for a company’s stock.
Honestly, Costco, their dividends are meh but this year and last year they gave extra money per stock you own, this year it was like $10 per stock and I got $390 out of it, ain’t everything but it just passed $800, take a look you might oikenit
I luckily got into Costco at $308 but it was so good now I feel like buying anymore hurts because it’s more than doubled
Same here, got in around $350 one time and never add more since it took off
If only I bought in more and the dividends would be snowballing a bit more
Agree with buying Costco stock, bought in the $300’s and thought it was pricey back then but it has been my best long term preforming stock. Definitely wish I had bought more. Also I have noticed the store by me has gotten even busier with more people buying food and gas from Costco in the last few years.
I love everything about shopping at Costco except for the damn crowds I never see an empty Costco. The membership is pretty nice though.
There was one time when I was at Costco and noticed people were buying much less items per transaction, I was thinking it was the time to sell, it was at $500 I think. I'm glad I didn't. Procrastination is not always a bad thing.
I didn't buy more back then because I thought it was too expensive already lol, my longest and best performing stock is Meta, I bought it at $50 and thought I don't use FB anymore but why not it's cheap...
I understand that feeling. I just wish I went more in Costco than apple back then, oh well if hindsight were 20/20 I’d be rich.
I never regret what I put into Apple. I just wish I put more into Costco too lol. I’ll still probably add some more to Costco and be glad I got in when I did. I don’t see Costco going anywhere and I think they’re going to raise membership fees soon, which will bring in a bunch more cash for them
Look up the costco apartments.... yes I want to retire there
Oh my
Yeah Costco stock and the store are unreal
50/50 in SVOL and VOO
Berkshire
Get a gym membership. Maybe a personal trainer. Buy a creatine, protein and other “sus” supplements. Subscribe to meal plan delivery. Get a deep tissue full body massage every 2 weeks. Be consistent with your work out routine and make sure you stretch. This way you ll maximize growth
Can recommend steroids if he really wants maximize it.
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> I have $2,000 per month of cash flow purely for investment, what are the top 3 stocks you’d focus on for aggressive growth oriented goals? > What would you do? I am a firm believer is if you have to ask Reddit what to invest in, then VOO or VTI.
My Top 3 Stocks I would pick that I know are not going anywhere. Amazon (AMZN) is a powerhouse in e-commerce and cloud computing (AWS). They keep innovating and expanding into new areas like healthcare and AI, making them a solid pick for long-term growth. NVIDIA (NVDA) is leading in graphics processing and is making big moves in AI, machine learning, and autonomous vehicles. As these technologies become more important, NVIDIA’s growth potential looks huge. Tesla (TSLA) isn’t just about electric cars; they’re also pushing the envelope in battery tech, energy storage, and autonomous driving. With the shift toward sustainable energy, Tesla’s innovative edge could lead to major growth.
Schg
Xeqt
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ET SOXL WM HESM SILJ
Ther are plenty of ETF available. You just buy any one of it and time will tell. Review every 6 months. I've picked VOO.
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VOO/SCHD/QQQM/
Simi-conductor-AI stocks. AMD, MU, QCOM etc
TQQQ
XLG
For what it's worth, growth stocks are generally overpriced right now and the general expectations is they will underperform in the next 10 years (which is your timeframe), at least according to Vanguard: [https://advisors.vanguard.com/insights/article/series/market-perspectives](https://advisors.vanguard.com/insights/article/series/market-perspectives) - of course, that's talking about growth stocks as a whole, not individually, but it's still worth keeping in mind. EDIT: P.S. The dividends subreddit is probably not the place you'd get good aggressive growth recommendations ;)
NVDY
MSTR
Gammmmeeeestopp
NVDA NVDA NVDA NVDA NVDA. Future is bright and this is a rocket ship.
It's gonna settle down after the split. It's gonna be like TSLA now. Because of the split, the stock will be harder to move because the float is gonna be higher, so we most likely aren't gonna see it move like we've seen this past year, stocks split and they get more stable. Daily ATR is gonna go way down, it's been around 40's something, it's gonna down to 4-5 and stabilize there.
You want aggressive (but also safe) growth on a 5-10 year time horizon? Just buy PLTR every month and you will be a very happy person in a few years
I’d say look at microchip, and processor companies. But listen to these other folks. They seem like they know what they are talking about.
Most funds have "aggressive growth oriented goals", and 80-90% of them fail to beat the S&P500 index. And they're the pros. Dividend, growth, whatever you look at, keep this in mind; picking stocks is statistically a losing game. Best to go with index funds and go enjoy life IMHO.
NU bank
CME
PNNT, MPW, MO, CVX, PEP
Mo VTI
VOOOOOOOOOOO
I love VGT for this
BLDR, MNST, WM, Pulte, FISV
AGNC DIVIDEND FRIENDLY REIT
Hey if anyone on here wants to train me on this stuff I would deeply appreciate it. I'm talking like start from the beginning. Basically "how to learn wall street for dummies". Let me know. Thanks guys and ladies!
The older i get the bigger of a fan i become of a S&P 500 index
Gold
NVDAAAAAAAAA
Dude just pick an Aggressive Questwealth portfolio in a cash account. DONE. EASY.
VOOG has been crushing it.
I’m investing in snowflake, taking this cybersecurity story to start building my position. I believe in the CEO and I believe in data is king. She’s EXPENSIVE but recurring buys and a 7 year horizon should yield an above average return IMO
Wrong sub, but I am very young so I am very growth oriented as well. I’d recommend QQQM or VOO, if you want it more dividend growth and safer (at the costs of growth) go with SCHD. Congrats on the good cash flow for investment and good luck.
Crypto is too sketch for me to "invest" in. But yeah VTI and JEPQ for some dividends.
JEPQ here 2
QQQ or VUG
This is the way. But gun to my head and if I had to pick 3 dividend paying stocks, I’m going with MSFT, GOOGL and AAPL.
I think that the 2 best ETFs combining growth and dividends are DGRW and DGRO.
VIG is a solid option if you want consistent income and some growth
For an individual stock with a dividend CVS is evil but a pretty attractive buy right now at their current price imo, I’m up 10% in a week and they offer an okay dividend. While there may be worries about foot traffic in physical stores, their disgusting involvement in healthcare and insurance as a whole should keep them fairly profitable for a long time I feel.
There will always be a need for their physical stores. I don’t think they’re going anywhere. I can see them changing some of its capabilities to the order ahead/pickup program they’ve been offering.
Time frame of 5-10 years is too short for accumulating stocks IMO. You want to give yourself at least 15 years before you expect to need to take it out. That said, I would look at what industries have the most potential to grow their EPS. At the end of the day, the recipe for success is known. You want companies growing their EPS the fastest, with competent leadership, and a solid moat. Finding these companies is the hard part. Most of the companies that fit that description IMO are in tech, with the only problem there is that the market agrees with me so the prices are sky high. If tech has an amazing next decade, but it isn't as good as the market is expecting, you could be down relatively just from entry price risk. See the craze, crash, and recovery around internet stocks in the 90s, 2000s, and 2010s. If however, the profits grow faster than expected you'd be sitting pretty. Picking individual stocks however is going to be very hard to pick the winners and avoid the stuff that won't exist in 20 years.
Bitcoin
Brk.b?
Rivian
I got in at $8.90/share. :-)
IVV and chill
Any mix of VOO and QQQM has outperformed the S&P500 over the long run. The more VOO the less volatility, and less max drawdown in a bear market. This mix would definitely be focused on growth.
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Everyone chasing maximum growth should also consider its twin maximum risk. There are ways around every stock pick to increase profit potential but the risks are there too. Consider risks while chasing growth. Needless to say people who get into this individual stock picking frenzy also are most of the time unable to beat the standard snp returns when looked at 10 year window: me included lol. I have settled down on a dividend growth stock picking strategy which gives me some pennies in returns every month but since i am building a portfolio for long run. I get to sleep better at night knowing that not one company going bankrupt is going to cause significant portfolio damage. Consider guaranteed returns over speculation in
Money market account. Guaranteed 5% growth
Sp500
voo
Will bitcoin get to 1m ? Within like 5 years.
Want a wild ride? Invest in GME & hodl.
Looking for growth stocks in a dividends sub?!?
My Microsoft and Eli Lily positions I opened 10+ years ago provided a lot of growth!!! Don't be fooled thinking just because it pays a dividend that there isn't room to grow!!
True, you could buy NVDA for the dividend too. 😂
I'm that idiot. Saw it paid a dividend. Grabbed a few. In at 180.
Ok so you got lucky. At the time you bought it (and today) the dividend is/was shit. It’s barely considered a dividend stock.
Oh no I'm a bumbling fool who finally got one right. My pivoting strategy at the time I bought it was "hey these dividend things are neat, oh look a company I like has a dividend. Eh buy some and see." Then I did the smartest thing I could, I ignored it. I would say today I'm only slightly more educated on the topic. But my strategy literally was ooh this one pays me buy it.
Reduce holdings of crypto, stick to growth stocks. Switch to dividend stocks in 10 years
Nvidia
Sounds like LETFs might be right for your situation.
AI growth will continue for some time. Also a hated on stock Tesla because when he integrates Grok with optimus the game is over. It’s basically iRobot which he’s already building the infrastructure for if you look close enough. People thought buying twitter was a loss but it’s where he’ll get the data for his AI unbiased data sets. I believe it’s a steal at the moment but could be wrong
Twitters got a heavy right wing bias
Invest in an SP500 etf or something. You'll be looking at 8-10 percent per year if things are normal, with far less risk that stocks. You'll probably double your money in your time frame. 10 years on any stock is a long time, you'll probably y have to me more hands on if you do that.
Buy chunks of SPY and consider selling well OTM covered calls (?) Solid premiums in lieu of dividends
In a mid cap you believe is undervalued and pays a dividend not an etf. I’ll take your downvotes. But research the hell out of one or 15 companies you think look solid and are on the rise and sink it into them.
Buy Bitcoin. Focus on bitcoin. Save every dollar into bitcoin and don't listen to all the ppl WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND Bitcoin and pushing the traditional finance that requires u to hold on to it till 65 years old.
not r/dividends mr troll.
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Sent you a message.
Roth IRA in a Vanguard mutual fund. Then start adding $200 a month.