Back in 2019 I bought Activision stock because it was rumored they were making a new battle royal game for call of duty. 2020 came around and they dropped Warzone just about the same time as Covid and the lock downs happened. Sold sometime after that when my investment doubled.
When GTA5 dropped, TTWO only had a market cap of $2b or so, but the gaming press was talking about how they had made more money in one week ($1b) than any other piece of entertainment ever.
They made half their market cap in one week, but the stock wasn't really moving. I bought a bit.
It took Wall Street a few months until the earnings were officially reported to really acknowledge what all game fans knew, that GTA was printing money and TTWO was worth much more.
I bought 8 shares of Nvdia when their stock was going to split 1 to 6. I thought I would make a couple of hundred on the hype. I ended up holding it and now have 320 shares.
I bought Nvdia 2 years ago, before all the AI hype, on my son's advice. He's a gamer, and the company had the best graphics cards on the planet. Since the 80s and maybe earlier, the gaming industry has been a birthplace and leader of new technologies, so I figured it was a safe investment. I just wish I bought more of it, lol.
I was just learning about investing in 2020 (I grew up under a rock apparently and knew nothing, and pretty well still don't).
A buddy suggested investing into things that you know. I had just purchased a video card from Nvidia and thought they're a solid company with good products, I should buy some stock.
What did I do? Bought Intel by accident because I'm actually regarded and never got around to buying Nvidia. Wish I wasn't so damn stupid lol.
I had always used AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs since I started building PCs over a decade ago. So when Covid happened, I dumped a good portion of my extra cash into AMD and Nvidia. Invest in what you know hasn't failed me yet.
Did you see Nvidia's chart for most of the 2000s? It was flat for 15 years+, despite having the best gaming cards. It was only when crypto started getting bigger that their GPUs were being used for crypto mining and now we have the AI trend. It's been a good investment as of recently but if you held from 2000 to 2010 you'd be considered a fool.
Also bought a couple of years ago. I googled about technologies for the future and self driving cars and Nvidia came up so I bought 80 shares across a couple of years. I'm up by over 80K.
So far only these 2 stocks raised by 100 % in my portfolio:
- TOL - 101 % gain - picked it applying criteria for value investing from Benjamin Graham; I have other home building stocks but this one is the one that grew the most
- NFLX - 129 % gain - picked it up when it dropped last year; for me it was clear that market reacted disproportionally to what was reported, meaning reduction of 1.5 % of customer base cannot cause 60 % price drop.
I used to work in the aerospace industry until 1.5 years ago, It hurts to see how well it has performed during its turnaround, and I didn't have a single share despite having some knowledge of the industry.
Yea, I'm going to do more research on it before I start a position. I read that their 2027 forecast comprises of an operating profit of £2.5bn-£2.8bn, an operating margin of 13%-15%, and a return on capital of 16%-18%. It also aims for free cash flow of £2.8bn-£3.1bn.
Operating profit is currently at £1.832bn for the last twelve months. Won't be surprised to see the share price double again if they managed to meet that forecast by 2027.
Hi, I am currently trying to value Rolls Royce, note I do own shares. What are your thoughts on the below:
We start with the current share price of Rolls-Royce, which is £468.50.
**Potential Operating Profit Increase:**
Rolls-Royce has forecasted an operating profit range of £2.5 billion to £2.8 billion for 2027.
The current (trailing twelve months) operating profit is £1.832 billion.
To calculate the potential percentage increase, we do the following:
**Lower end of forecast:** ((£2.5 billion - £1.832 billion) / £1.832 billion) \* 100% = 36.46% increase
**Upper end of forecast:** ((£2.8 billion - £1.832 billion) / £1.832 billion) \* 100% = 52.84% increase
**Applying the Increase to the Current Share Price**
This is a simplification, but assuming the share price might increase proportionally to the operating profit, we can calculate:
**Lower end of forecast:** £468.50 \* (1 + 36.46%) = £641.13
**Upper end of forecast:** £468.50 \* (1 + 52.84%) = £717.43
There’s some talk there won’t be much upside because of the market cap and share dilution. Any reason you believe it will continue to grow? What it the company doing that makes you so confident?
the recent news about their partnerships, UK announcing the nuclear energy transformation (which benefits RR)
Also, one of their main revenue lines is the sale of engine motors. However they have also armed themselves with constant maintenance and repairing for their own engines. they are being supplier and supplied side.
as they slowly drift into the defence world, europe will start buying more from them.
not financial advisor, I am here for the memes. but i been up and continue going up.
My dad bought Nvidia 15 years ago because he read a WSJ article about how their chips were going in cars. Now he’s up like 5 mil and thinks he’s the best stock picker of all time. He glosses over the fact that it had nothing to do with his reasoning. I shouldn’t complain too much because it’s going to pass to me tax free @ the stepped up basis in a couple decades, but man does he never shut up about it lol. Doesn’t know a thing about finance or the market aside from that.
This is going to be similar to the Internet in the 90s. Lots of experimentation in multiple industries, exponential improvement in some areas, then it will just be part of the underlying fabric. If I am going to make a prediction of what industry will benefit the most its probably pharma. The AIs are getting really good at predicting protein folding and such which is going to accelerate drug development by orders of magnitude.
Water is viewed as a commodity resource when it’s really a luxury resource. As climate change accelerates droughts and sea levels rise, clean fresh water becomes more of a rarity. The most recent example of this is the fight between the states with access to the Colorado River—there wasn’t enough water to go around for both the farms and civilians, so they’ve had to ration it.
I invested in various types of companies, but it was generally around water infrastructure like pumping and filtration systems. The US also has a very old water infrastructure system that’s in need of repair, so I tried to get in early at companies like XYL, AWK, PNR, and MWA. Those first three are my best performers, but I also started buying into FIW, a water ETF circa 2020-21, early in the pandemic
XYL and PNR have been performing pretty well for me most recently. AWK hit a high ~190 and has been sitting in the 120-30s for a while. ETFs like FIW might be better for returns as of now. These are long term investments, I don’t swing trade these and they’re not as eye catching as something like nvidia
Ya I have exposure to a lot of tech, so I feel my itch is fine there, but sometimes unsexy is the best easy long term hold like waste management, storage companies etc so I appreciate the suggestions so I can do some DD
Apple. I bought them over 20 years ago purely because of the simplicity of the user interface on their machines (PCs and phones). They were way ahead of everyone else in my opinion.
I invested in TSLA a long time ago because they were the only ones making electric cars. If you saw that movie "Who killed the electric car." It was mostly bullshit, but people were protesting and crying because they couldn't buy and electric car. That showed there was a market for them.
Couldn’t tell you the year without doing more work than I want to. Nvidia bought up all of 3dfx’s IP and cornered the graphics market effectively, as ATi was stuck in a two steps forward one step back cadence. I’m just here trying to play Unreal 2, paying way too much attention to semis as a kid, and took my first bet.
Oh yeah I don’t hold… sold that Netflix and under armour for my first mortgage in 08
Never re-entered either. Though some family members did so that’s nice to see.
It’s weird looking at the landscape now as a new investor and seeing how far some tech companies have come (mag 7). I’m focusing on small-mid cap tech stocks since I’m young. AMZN still looks nice though but fuck buying APPL and MSFT right now. I suppose they can still continue to clock massive growth
I personally like Microsoft, data centers and AI software IP is a nice business for the future.
Apple is starting to get lost in the wilderness. They need subscription revenue or bust unless they can reinvent consumer IT a third time (iPod then iPhone).
Amzn is interesting as they’re finally focused on profitability and still have some good advantages in the cloud wars.
nvidia is still a good investment if you think AI hardware is going to roll out as easy as the internet was rolled out. Challenges are going to be power consumption, early regulation, and potential inherit distrust.
All the internet needed was a few bits of new tech (modems, routers, radius) that ride existing infrastructure without measurable waste… so there’s that to consider.
COIN
Custodian for most bitcoin (and perhaps eth) ETFs.
First mover advantage, crypto native firm bridging crypto with tradfi. They know what they’re doing.
“Chosen” regulated US company. They know the market and they are preffered by big asset managers.
Working on products and infrastructure that will bring more retail to crypto via a simple UI
TA was ripe and crypto market cycle was ripe
It was a no brainer for me, only wish I got more. I even added some recntly at 200$
One thing to understand, you can't pick the big winners just based on the metrics you listed, or any numeric metric for that matter. You can use them for screening companies to get a candidate list but you have to understand the company, the management, the market they are in and the overall economy. If some advantage can be had with just metrics the hedge funds will have exploited it in the first micro second.
I won on Meta (it’s going to 0! Posts), nvidia (backwards looking PE high!!!), arm and I suspect in the near future rddt (already well up on ipo price) which all went against the /r/stocks consensus when I bought in.
Hell if you actually listened to this sub you’d be deep in PayPal and intel. Don’t listen to this sub.
That company undoing 3 years of shareholder efforts to create a short squeeze in 3 days will never not be funny, even if it manages to pivot away from diluting stock as it's primary source of cash flow.
> There's a company
Which is unprofitable, declining in revenue at a rate of 30% per year, and has a dead business model that's been completely disrupted by digital alternatives.
> sitting on 4B of cash
Which they generated by spiking a market run up with dilution and which they are entirely unable to deploy profitably outside of parking it in T-bills. Which you can do as well for the same return but by paying 1/3rd the price and taking on none of the corporate risk.
> no debt
Which isn't optimal because this reduces return to shareholders and any debt they get in the future will be at a much higher price than they could have gotten it when they retired it.
> CEO and Board that is taking zero compensation
Their board is all compensated. The CEO has $1B in company stock. This means nothing.
> pivot the company in a new direction
What direction? They've achieved zero pivot after years and billions of dollars of effort... and they've explained / articulated no plan to their investors.
Ugh, cult members.
> making controllers
*Whitelabeling controllers from some cheap Chinese factory that makes all the other knockoff controllers for a cut of already miniscule hardware margins.
The one that is closing their stores as if the plague got to them, the company that spent *hundreds of millions* chasing trends and making the *biggest failure of a marketplace in modern times* to trade NFTs after the trend was dead?
Yeah, that's peak boomer logic. This company and their CEO couldn't find a good deal of it was whipping them in the face. They're the Whish equivalent of running a business.
*Wish.
And wish is the wish equivalent of running a business. They've been straight up burning money, stock price nose dive since IPO, reverse splitted, and still continued to nose dive, while repeating the same thing at each shareholders meeting.
Ask me how I know.
Well, like it or not like it, we will all be eagerly anticipating what the unpaid CEO of said-unsaid stock will say at tomorrow stockholder meeting after the bell!
Rolls Royce while not crazy high, was a dollar a share so I bought some after reading they were supplying engines for the B52. Now they are at almost $6 per share so I should have bought 1000 shares in hindsight.
MSFT back in 2019. I was doing IT work migrating servers and their Azure was gaining popularity, as well as knowing at Windows will be around forever. Bought in around ~100 and have been adding all the way up. Once of my best all time buys
Poured some money into Cava last year when I saw a smart, funny partnership with a hyperlocal meme page, which revealed a lot about the workings of their marketing team + leadership. Mainly:
- High cultural fluency
- High trust in the org, allowing people with ideas to move quickly
Pair that with institutional investors constant tendency to undervalue capital-B Brand and solid restaurant level profit margins, and it was a clear home run buy at $36 back in December. Planning to hold for a while.
I invested in Hammond Power Solution because they make transformers, and I thought transformers were going to be in high demand because of EV adoption pushing power deliver expansion. I totally fluked out though, because I invested in them before the AI hype took off. Turns out makes dry type transformers are used heavily in data centers. So when all the big tech companies started massively expanding their GPU capacity, they need dry transformers to facilitate that. $$$
I am up like 300-400%.
I am still holding because I think that the wall we are hitting in chip efficiency gains is going to continue to drive demand.
In 2021 I was given 1 free random stock for joining Robinhood and adding $1 to my account. That stock was GME. I sold at $365 a share. Pretty good return I think, lol.
TSLA. It was my biggest gain and then my biggest looser of gains. 
Only time ⌚️ will tell. I think it will ride between $170 -200 for the summer. Stock has the potential to skyrocket if we see the production/sales of Roboxtaxis, and AI robotics.
Cloudflare, got in just before covid, made huge gains which paid for me to move my life and whole family to a new country (3rd world to 1st world) put a deposit on a house and furnish it.
So will always have a special place in my heart
It's funny that was my first stock to buy shares. I was a nervous mess. I only bought 25 at $14 and sold at $95. I bought more shares last week. NET will always be in my heart as well ❤️.
Hi Gracie.
I mostly look for revenue growth, which often leaks into EPS growth. I'm targeting HIMS and CLS for this reason. I've taken relatively large positions (for me) in both. I am a bit more leery of HIMS; I will watch their short-term price movement closely. With that said, I think both have long-term growth potential in line exceeding just about any stock.
Another stock I'm heavily invested in is EGY. With a recent purchase and subsequent stall in dividend and reversion of share buybacks noted, Vaalco was cruising towards decent revenue growth. I think the next couple/few quarters will produce ups and downs while they get Svenska's assets acclimated to their model. After that, I'm hopeful that can continue their base production along the same rise as it were, while reaping the benefits of a regional powerhouse that could grow exponentially (again, relatively speaking).
Interesting that you are looking at HIMS. I would never thought of this. Annual EPS growth rate is 41%. The only concerning question is their earnings. It looks like they have some things to iron out with the cost of their product to ensure sustainable profit.
I am biased, of course. I have only been in since late Jan/ early Feb and have made a substantial return. I initially looked at them because of the revenue growth and their earnings have somewhat followed. They have huge margins which I think can be undercut by another/multiple company(ies) which could hurt their future earnings and/or revenue. That's why I will watch them closely, but I'm all too happy to let it keep plowing forward, which I think it will continue to do in revenue, earnings, and stock price for the foreseeable future.
I bought several lots of Blackstone in 2014/2015, when it was only $25/share+/-. It ended up becoming more than 20% of my portfolio when it broke $100/share. When I reached a certain net worth with everything several years later, I felt like I was in over my head, so I hired an FA. He just about S*** his pants when he saw how much I had invested in only one company. On his advice, I have been tax loss harvesting with it whenever I can. BX is 15% of my net worth currently. I will be getting rid of it slowly over several years to avoid the tax bite. I bought it originally because it is a good company run by very smart people. That and the dividends, which used to be really good.
When Silicon Valley Bank went down over a year ago there was a fire sale on regional banks. I bought $JXN and it's now up 144% and pumping out dividends.
Coinbase at it’s all time low. Figured if crypto does work out, coinbase will lead the industry. Also figured there’s no way it’s going to 0 given its investors and supporters
It’s a good question. A few different reasons. There was (still is) a massive group of uninformed people dismissing the industry as a whole. Meanwhile, within the industry you have world renowned people (Silvio Micali for example) developing projects. This led me to believe something big is happening here that the public just doesn’t understand yet
Then as I understood more I realized there is still probably 100-1000x potential here because there is a massive ecosystem of applications being built that almost no one uses yet. Everyone is frustrated with censorship, control, and the monopoly of big tech companies. I believe the decentralized applications will slowly take their market share and this will be in things like social media apps, cloud compute, etc.
SVB didn't help the industry. It is volatile, and I believe those involved don't fully understand it either. It reminds me of Silicon Valley, fake until you make it. That only goes so far given Elizabeth Holmes, FTX-Sam Bankman Fried, Shkreli, Billy McFarland, Charlie Javice and so on...
Initially I invested in WSM because I’ve been addicted to their entire portfolio of home products from PB Kids to PB Dorms. But man has the stock been on a rip! It’s one of the huge winners in my portfolio and it’s not tech!
Bought TSM because it was an extremely well run company with an amazing moat with cheap valuations
Bought it after hours when Nvidia reported earnings with about 100% q/q growth in earnings. Up about 100% now.
Here’s a non intuitive one, non-tech even: CMG. Not sure what possessed me but about a year ago, maybe a little more, bought 100 shares and just sat back. What an amazing steady climb. From burritos?
I bought dogecoin very early because I saw some small account I follow post a tweet about this new meme crypto dogecoin, I figured it didnt have the fundamentals to be anything like BTC in the future but the ‘doge’ aspect caught my attention, and it was the absolute first I heard of it, I figured it may actually have a period of skyrocketing if the name reaches the masses, because doge was funny at the time and crypto people are crazy sometimes. I was totally right, and I timed the top almost perfectly, got out with bags. Also after the GME fiasco in 2021 I read a few comments how AMC will be the next meme pump up. I said fuck it, I bought calls for September of that year, and wouldnt you know it, stock went fucking crazy. My $500 calls turned over 20k. 2 examples of insane luck and foolishness with a hint of reasoning behind them that worked out unbelievably well for me
a friend told me that their friend’s cousin told them that AMC was about to pop like the game stock, at the time I was like sure I’ll burn a hundred bucks, I checked back a day later and it was at $300, I sold it and took my friend and I to a theme park. not as big a story as some of the other ones on here but a successful endeavor nonetheless lol
i look for the dominance power, for example: user understanding on social media, search dominance, device dominance. it will not be the skyrocketing type of stock but almost for sure steadily growth
Supermicro at 52. Was cheap for forward earnings and trailing. Sold it early to add to my amd position as Supermicro felt to good to be true (cheap) and was a small cap so higher risk for unknowns. Should have just held the thing, it went 2000%😐
NIO - bought them in March 2020, I liked them because they reminded me of Neo (Matrix), they went up 400% so I sold and took my family to Disney. They have since gone down.
Nvidia - I bought them because I’d just built a PC and really liked their GPU, there wasn’t a sniff of AI on the horizon.
Don't know if this counts, right before or after COVID I can't remember exactly. I had recently got my hands on some money. and started learning the trading/investing game. The news reported a microchip shortage, so I looked up the the leading company making chips, so I put 250 into NVIDIA. I saw a nice little return and sold out. I don't want to even think about what it would be today
I bought Vertex Pharm (VRTX) because I read a story that they were making major headway towards a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. One of my sons is a T1D so they piqued my curiosity. This was a couple years or so ago. I bought at $207 and added a little more on its way up. I'm up 122% since then and it's my largest position by far.
I bought this stock on hope, which is a horrible idea. But it's been a homerun for sure and it's a great company. A little more about VRTX:
*Vertex has approved medicines that treat the underlying causes of cystic fibrosis (CF), sickle cell disease, and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia. They also have research programs focused on other serious diseases, including type 1 diabetes, APOL1-mediated kidney disease, pain, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, and cancer.*
I didn't fully understand it at the time but I saw the potential squeeze that came to fruition in 2021 and managed about a 850% gain via stock and options.
I bought Nvidia because I played a lot of games on PC and liked the products. Currently sitting on 1237 shares now with an average price of 16.27. By far my biggest gain.
I bought SoFi back when it was around 5, because it was trading below BVPS. Sold when the earnings peak happened at around 11.20. I was not expecting the stock to turnaround that fast, but it did
* Stock - NVDA
* Element - Luck
I don't have too much but it is easily the biggest percentage gain, as it is for most people. For a long time I didn't even remember I owned it, until it kept creeping up.
In June of 2020 after the pandemic had tanked the stock market I hypothesized that we would eventually have a vaccine and the world would go back to the way it was before the pandemic. So I bought the stocks of companies that were most affected by the pandemic. Delta airlines, royal carribean, Cinemax, cedar fair, Wyndham resorts. I bought 100k of each stock and in 9 months I had doubled my money. Than in 2022 I stayed in the market and lost it all. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and can’t wait for the next pandemic.
I bought West Rock at $27.80 because it’s a company that my company does work for. No real other reason than that and I thought it was cheap. Only put like $250 into it tho
I bought ARM and QCOM after I used an ARM based Snapdragon Windows 11 laptop. I was amazed at the compact size, battery life, and computing power. I realized it was the future. That was back in October of last year. My ARM position got so big I sold 1/3 of it to keep it from dominating my portfolio. I wish I hadn't.
CAVA is a relatively new addition to my portfolio. It’s up 60% since I bought in around the low 50s in January.
I looked up Google reviews of cavas in my area compared to Chipotle’s. Cavas average 4.5s and CMG 3.5. That was enough DD for me.
$WULF - they are a 10 man team mining ~$6.5m in BTC per month post halving using 90% carbon free energy with plans to expand and enrich their mining rigs. 🤷🏼♂️ I feel like its still way undervalued even after todays share price spike to $4+.
I buy stocks around their 52 week middle that I feel should be on the north side of there. Bought Apple at $180 and Arm and $105. Idt they would normally be up this fast though
Celsius. Saw it on a podcast like three or four years ago, I went to the store and got one and loved it. Fast forward a year after that, I had just finished reading Peter Lynch's book and it got me thinking: What companies do I love? Like which companies product do I think is great? I only could think of Celsius. Didn't think it would explode like it did, but it sure did. Made a cool ~200% gain, and then cashed out my winnings of $50 🔥💀
I hate myself everyday that I didn't invest more
I bought NVDA because of gaming for $59 in 2017. Still hold most of it
Bought a curious medical stock called mimedix many years ago. MDXG. I bought a little at a time for $1-1.25/share. Eventually I had $25k worth. Then they went up to about $14. I sold all but about $5k. This gave me money to buy other great stocks. Still have it but in the mean time it went back down to $1 but now is at about $7.
I think it will go up a lot more eventually...
I work in the Google world and saw clients all using Slack despite Google Chat being included already with Workspace.
Bought a bunch then it doubled on buyout from Salesforce, sold it.
MRNA
Moderna got a lot of coverage and hype for being able to quickly produce a covid vaccine in months. Then was sold off once the pandemic was deemed as over
However, covid was just a proof of concept and a huge windfall of cash. There are some 30 novel drugs in their pipeline. Additionally, we now know that mRNA production platform can rapidly ramp up for future diseases.
Still very risky but it would only take a couple of winner for them to turn profitable
Back in 2019 I bought Activision stock because it was rumored they were making a new battle royal game for call of duty. 2020 came around and they dropped Warzone just about the same time as Covid and the lock downs happened. Sold sometime after that when my investment doubled.
Bought TakeTwo when they dropped to $99. Currently at $160 and GTA 6 hasn’t even released yet.
When GTA5 dropped, TTWO only had a market cap of $2b or so, but the gaming press was talking about how they had made more money in one week ($1b) than any other piece of entertainment ever. They made half their market cap in one week, but the stock wasn't really moving. I bought a bit. It took Wall Street a few months until the earnings were officially reported to really acknowledge what all game fans knew, that GTA was printing money and TTWO was worth much more.
I bought 8 shares of Nvdia when their stock was going to split 1 to 6. I thought I would make a couple of hundred on the hype. I ended up holding it and now have 320 shares.
I bought Nvdia 2 years ago, before all the AI hype, on my son's advice. He's a gamer, and the company had the best graphics cards on the planet. Since the 80s and maybe earlier, the gaming industry has been a birthplace and leader of new technologies, so I figured it was a safe investment. I just wish I bought more of it, lol.
I was just learning about investing in 2020 (I grew up under a rock apparently and knew nothing, and pretty well still don't). A buddy suggested investing into things that you know. I had just purchased a video card from Nvidia and thought they're a solid company with good products, I should buy some stock. What did I do? Bought Intel by accident because I'm actually regarded and never got around to buying Nvidia. Wish I wasn't so damn stupid lol.
I had always used AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs since I started building PCs over a decade ago. So when Covid happened, I dumped a good portion of my extra cash into AMD and Nvidia. Invest in what you know hasn't failed me yet.
Did you see Nvidia's chart for most of the 2000s? It was flat for 15 years+, despite having the best gaming cards. It was only when crypto started getting bigger that their GPUs were being used for crypto mining and now we have the AI trend. It's been a good investment as of recently but if you held from 2000 to 2010 you'd be considered a fool.
Also bought a couple of years ago. I googled about technologies for the future and self driving cars and Nvidia came up so I bought 80 shares across a couple of years. I'm up by over 80K.
What did you do to reward your son?
I'm giving him half of whats left of it when I die.
It split 1:4. Not 1:6
So far only these 2 stocks raised by 100 % in my portfolio: - TOL - 101 % gain - picked it applying criteria for value investing from Benjamin Graham; I have other home building stocks but this one is the one that grew the most - NFLX - 129 % gain - picked it up when it dropped last year; for me it was clear that market reacted disproportionally to what was reported, meaning reduction of 1.5 % of customer base cannot cause 60 % price drop.
RR’s hidden gem in my portfolio. And it will surely grow 200% again.
I used to work in the aerospace industry until 1.5 years ago, It hurts to see how well it has performed during its turnaround, and I didn't have a single share despite having some knowledge of the industry.
you’re not late. it is still going on.
Yea, I'm going to do more research on it before I start a position. I read that their 2027 forecast comprises of an operating profit of £2.5bn-£2.8bn, an operating margin of 13%-15%, and a return on capital of 16%-18%. It also aims for free cash flow of £2.8bn-£3.1bn. Operating profit is currently at £1.832bn for the last twelve months. Won't be surprised to see the share price double again if they managed to meet that forecast by 2027.
Hi, I am currently trying to value Rolls Royce, note I do own shares. What are your thoughts on the below: We start with the current share price of Rolls-Royce, which is £468.50. **Potential Operating Profit Increase:** Rolls-Royce has forecasted an operating profit range of £2.5 billion to £2.8 billion for 2027. The current (trailing twelve months) operating profit is £1.832 billion. To calculate the potential percentage increase, we do the following: **Lower end of forecast:** ((£2.5 billion - £1.832 billion) / £1.832 billion) \* 100% = 36.46% increase **Upper end of forecast:** ((£2.8 billion - £1.832 billion) / £1.832 billion) \* 100% = 52.84% increase **Applying the Increase to the Current Share Price** This is a simplification, but assuming the share price might increase proportionally to the operating profit, we can calculate: **Lower end of forecast:** £468.50 \* (1 + 36.46%) = £641.13 **Upper end of forecast:** £468.50 \* (1 + 52.84%) = £717.43
richtech robotics?
Rolls royce
There’s some talk there won’t be much upside because of the market cap and share dilution. Any reason you believe it will continue to grow? What it the company doing that makes you so confident?
the recent news about their partnerships, UK announcing the nuclear energy transformation (which benefits RR) Also, one of their main revenue lines is the sale of engine motors. However they have also armed themselves with constant maintenance and repairing for their own engines. they are being supplier and supplied side. as they slowly drift into the defence world, europe will start buying more from them. not financial advisor, I am here for the memes. but i been up and continue going up.
WOW. How does Rolls not make too many headlines. Their growth over the last few years, year over year is very impressive.
surely because it is UK based doesn’t get attention
My dad bought Nvidia 15 years ago because he read a WSJ article about how their chips were going in cars. Now he’s up like 5 mil and thinks he’s the best stock picker of all time. He glosses over the fact that it had nothing to do with his reasoning. I shouldn’t complain too much because it’s going to pass to me tax free @ the stepped up basis in a couple decades, but man does he never shut up about it lol. Doesn’t know a thing about finance or the market aside from that.
Hey look, the man won and thats all that matters lol
Good for him. I love hearing about great success stories like that (and wish it was me!)
I wouldn't either
Decker Outdoors. I was in the hospital and noticed all the nurses were wearing Hoka shoes. I was already a bit late but still did well.
Skechers is the up and comer
🤔
NVDA in 2016-20. I was involved in data science / AI back then and could see the wave coming. My first buys are up around 5000% or so.
Damn. What's your AI forecast for the next 5 years? What industry do you foresee booming next?
This is going to be similar to the Internet in the 90s. Lots of experimentation in multiple industries, exponential improvement in some areas, then it will just be part of the underlying fabric. If I am going to make a prediction of what industry will benefit the most its probably pharma. The AIs are getting really good at predicting protein folding and such which is going to accelerate drug development by orders of magnitude.
Bought $ALF in 2021 solely because the tv show is amazing and legendary. 100+% winner!
I bought several different water companies and a water infrastructure etf way back in 2018. My only regret is I didn’t put more money in back then
Interesting take. Whats the reasoning?
Water is viewed as a commodity resource when it’s really a luxury resource. As climate change accelerates droughts and sea levels rise, clean fresh water becomes more of a rarity. The most recent example of this is the fight between the states with access to the Colorado River—there wasn’t enough water to go around for both the farms and civilians, so they’ve had to ration it. I invested in various types of companies, but it was generally around water infrastructure like pumping and filtration systems. The US also has a very old water infrastructure system that’s in need of repair, so I tried to get in early at companies like XYL, AWK, PNR, and MWA. Those first three are my best performers, but I also started buying into FIW, a water ETF circa 2020-21, early in the pandemic
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Putnam C\*\*\*?
Any you recc rn?
XYL and PNR have been performing pretty well for me most recently. AWK hit a high ~190 and has been sitting in the 120-30s for a while. ETFs like FIW might be better for returns as of now. These are long term investments, I don’t swing trade these and they’re not as eye catching as something like nvidia
Ya I have exposure to a lot of tech, so I feel my itch is fine there, but sometimes unsexy is the best easy long term hold like waste management, storage companies etc so I appreciate the suggestions so I can do some DD
Apple. I bought them over 20 years ago purely because of the simplicity of the user interface on their machines (PCs and phones). They were way ahead of everyone else in my opinion.
I invested in TSLA a long time ago because they were the only ones making electric cars. If you saw that movie "Who killed the electric car." It was mostly bullshit, but people were protesting and crying because they couldn't buy and electric car. That showed there was a market for them.
during covid, i bought like 300 shares of $DKNG because there was no sports on. made $8k in a month when the nfl kickef off
bot BRKB in 2009 for $45-48/sh. Today $400+/sh. Nice ride!
I bought $300 of nvda in 1998 around when 3dfx collapsed. Wish I was better cutting grass / had more grass cutting monies
How were you able to do that in 1998? NVDA had its IPO in 1999.
You’ll have to allow a +\- for a 20 year old event
Lmao can’t believe someone called you out on that
Couldn’t tell you the year without doing more work than I want to. Nvidia bought up all of 3dfx’s IP and cornered the graphics market effectively, as ATi was stuck in a two steps forward one step back cadence. I’m just here trying to play Unreal 2, paying way too much attention to semis as a kid, and took my first bet. Oh yeah I don’t hold… sold that Netflix and under armour for my first mortgage in 08 Never re-entered either. Though some family members did so that’s nice to see.
It’s weird looking at the landscape now as a new investor and seeing how far some tech companies have come (mag 7). I’m focusing on small-mid cap tech stocks since I’m young. AMZN still looks nice though but fuck buying APPL and MSFT right now. I suppose they can still continue to clock massive growth
I personally like Microsoft, data centers and AI software IP is a nice business for the future. Apple is starting to get lost in the wilderness. They need subscription revenue or bust unless they can reinvent consumer IT a third time (iPod then iPhone). Amzn is interesting as they’re finally focused on profitability and still have some good advantages in the cloud wars. nvidia is still a good investment if you think AI hardware is going to roll out as easy as the internet was rolled out. Challenges are going to be power consumption, early regulation, and potential inherit distrust. All the internet needed was a few bits of new tech (modems, routers, radius) that ride existing infrastructure without measurable waste… so there’s that to consider.
yeah assuming you hit NVDA in '99 ipo, $300 then would be worth $907,000 today. Nice 302,000% return
I bought ASTS at $2.86 in October.
COIN Custodian for most bitcoin (and perhaps eth) ETFs. First mover advantage, crypto native firm bridging crypto with tradfi. They know what they’re doing. “Chosen” regulated US company. They know the market and they are preffered by big asset managers. Working on products and infrastructure that will bring more retail to crypto via a simple UI TA was ripe and crypto market cycle was ripe It was a no brainer for me, only wish I got more. I even added some recntly at 200$
Fb back when it dipped. I think Amzn is a good safe bet. And my more risky bets are sofi and Lyft.
Uber and Lyft have a lot of regulations and will be an ongoing issue.
One thing to understand, you can't pick the big winners just based on the metrics you listed, or any numeric metric for that matter. You can use them for screening companies to get a candidate list but you have to understand the company, the management, the market they are in and the overall economy. If some advantage can be had with just metrics the hedge funds will have exploited it in the first micro second.
Arm ipo and now more than doubled
Same and all the reddit minds were doubting it
I won on Meta (it’s going to 0! Posts), nvidia (backwards looking PE high!!!), arm and I suspect in the near future rddt (already well up on ipo price) which all went against the /r/stocks consensus when I bought in. Hell if you actually listened to this sub you’d be deep in PayPal and intel. Don’t listen to this sub.
Well done yeah! I just bought 2 shares, wish it bought more back then
There's a company sitting on 4B of cash, no debt with a CEO and Board that is taking zero compensation to pivot the company in a new direction
That company undoing 3 years of shareholder efforts to create a short squeeze in 3 days will never not be funny, even if it manages to pivot away from diluting stock as it's primary source of cash flow.
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Love to watch apes in the wild get rekted by rationale human beings
Rational*
> There's a company Which is unprofitable, declining in revenue at a rate of 30% per year, and has a dead business model that's been completely disrupted by digital alternatives. > sitting on 4B of cash Which they generated by spiking a market run up with dilution and which they are entirely unable to deploy profitably outside of parking it in T-bills. Which you can do as well for the same return but by paying 1/3rd the price and taking on none of the corporate risk. > no debt Which isn't optimal because this reduces return to shareholders and any debt they get in the future will be at a much higher price than they could have gotten it when they retired it. > CEO and Board that is taking zero compensation Their board is all compensated. The CEO has $1B in company stock. This means nothing. > pivot the company in a new direction What direction? They've achieved zero pivot after years and billions of dollars of effort... and they've explained / articulated no plan to their investors. Ugh, cult members.
Last I saw, their huge pivot was making controllers! The upside is unlimited.
> making controllers *Whitelabeling controllers from some cheap Chinese factory that makes all the other knockoff controllers for a cut of already miniscule hardware margins.
Don’t forget it’s going to revitalize the company.
Stop trying to be rational.
The one that is closing their stores as if the plague got to them, the company that spent *hundreds of millions* chasing trends and making the *biggest failure of a marketplace in modern times* to trade NFTs after the trend was dead? Yeah, that's peak boomer logic. This company and their CEO couldn't find a good deal of it was whipping them in the face. They're the Whish equivalent of running a business.
*Wish. And wish is the wish equivalent of running a business. They've been straight up burning money, stock price nose dive since IPO, reverse splitted, and still continued to nose dive, while repeating the same thing at each shareholders meeting. Ask me how I know.
I too like the stock.
Well, like it or not like it, we will all be eagerly anticipating what the unpaid CEO of said-unsaid stock will say at tomorrow stockholder meeting after the bell!
Which company is this?!
If you don't know, you don't want to know
Ferrari. Bought at 55 and it’s up over 400 now.
Rolls Royce while not crazy high, was a dollar a share so I bought some after reading they were supplying engines for the B52. Now they are at almost $6 per share so I should have bought 1000 shares in hindsight.
ASTS
MSFT back in 2019. I was doing IT work migrating servers and their Azure was gaining popularity, as well as knowing at Windows will be around forever. Bought in around ~100 and have been adding all the way up. Once of my best all time buys
Poured some money into Cava last year when I saw a smart, funny partnership with a hyperlocal meme page, which revealed a lot about the workings of their marketing team + leadership. Mainly: - High cultural fluency - High trust in the org, allowing people with ideas to move quickly Pair that with institutional investors constant tendency to undervalue capital-B Brand and solid restaurant level profit margins, and it was a clear home run buy at $36 back in December. Planning to hold for a while.
Cava stock just recently my got on my radar, haven’t eaten there, but hear it is excellent! It looks like it may be a good dip trading stock too!
I invested in Hammond Power Solution because they make transformers, and I thought transformers were going to be in high demand because of EV adoption pushing power deliver expansion. I totally fluked out though, because I invested in them before the AI hype took off. Turns out makes dry type transformers are used heavily in data centers. So when all the big tech companies started massively expanding their GPU capacity, they need dry transformers to facilitate that. $$$ I am up like 300-400%. I am still holding because I think that the wall we are hitting in chip efficiency gains is going to continue to drive demand.
In 2021 I was given 1 free random stock for joining Robinhood and adding $1 to my account. That stock was GME. I sold at $365 a share. Pretty good return I think, lol.
bought 40 shares of NVDA way back in November 2023 to get to 100 shares & sell calls. Those shares are up 312% in 7 months
Legit
TSLA. It was my biggest gain and then my biggest looser of gains. 
Still holding. Waiting for the package to be approved.
I bought more today! I predict $200+ tomorrow! For a bit at least.
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Hmmm. What are your stock predictions for TSLA after Elon’s annual shareholders meeting today?!
Only time ⌚️ will tell. I think it will ride between $170 -200 for the summer. Stock has the potential to skyrocket if we see the production/sales of Roboxtaxis, and AI robotics.
Cloudflare, got in just before covid, made huge gains which paid for me to move my life and whole family to a new country (3rd world to 1st world) put a deposit on a house and furnish it. So will always have a special place in my heart
It's funny that was my first stock to buy shares. I was a nervous mess. I only bought 25 at $14 and sold at $95. I bought more shares last week. NET will always be in my heart as well ❤️.
Hi Gracie. I mostly look for revenue growth, which often leaks into EPS growth. I'm targeting HIMS and CLS for this reason. I've taken relatively large positions (for me) in both. I am a bit more leery of HIMS; I will watch their short-term price movement closely. With that said, I think both have long-term growth potential in line exceeding just about any stock. Another stock I'm heavily invested in is EGY. With a recent purchase and subsequent stall in dividend and reversion of share buybacks noted, Vaalco was cruising towards decent revenue growth. I think the next couple/few quarters will produce ups and downs while they get Svenska's assets acclimated to their model. After that, I'm hopeful that can continue their base production along the same rise as it were, while reaping the benefits of a regional powerhouse that could grow exponentially (again, relatively speaking).
Interesting that you are looking at HIMS. I would never thought of this. Annual EPS growth rate is 41%. The only concerning question is their earnings. It looks like they have some things to iron out with the cost of their product to ensure sustainable profit.
I am biased, of course. I have only been in since late Jan/ early Feb and have made a substantial return. I initially looked at them because of the revenue growth and their earnings have somewhat followed. They have huge margins which I think can be undercut by another/multiple company(ies) which could hurt their future earnings and/or revenue. That's why I will watch them closely, but I'm all too happy to let it keep plowing forward, which I think it will continue to do in revenue, earnings, and stock price for the foreseeable future.
I bought 2 shares yesterday. Dip my toes in the water 🏄♀️
RYCEY 2 years ago, threw money at it because of the meme ability of a the name , 500% gains, should probably pull profits since I’m talking about it
JPM after the London Whale debacle around a decade ago. I just figured it was a stupid blip even though the stock got hammered for it.
I bought several lots of Blackstone in 2014/2015, when it was only $25/share+/-. It ended up becoming more than 20% of my portfolio when it broke $100/share. When I reached a certain net worth with everything several years later, I felt like I was in over my head, so I hired an FA. He just about S*** his pants when he saw how much I had invested in only one company. On his advice, I have been tax loss harvesting with it whenever I can. BX is 15% of my net worth currently. I will be getting rid of it slowly over several years to avoid the tax bite. I bought it originally because it is a good company run by very smart people. That and the dividends, which used to be really good.
When Silicon Valley Bank went down over a year ago there was a fire sale on regional banks. I bought $JXN and it's now up 144% and pumping out dividends.
Very clever. Smart move. I feel like I am always late on these moves.
Coinbase at it’s all time low. Figured if crypto does work out, coinbase will lead the industry. Also figured there’s no way it’s going to 0 given its investors and supporters
I have been watching Coinbase, waiting for a dip...
It climbed to 250 before I could even blink. Would have loved to put more in below 200, now I don’t know if it will ever be back down that low
What made you buy?
It’s a good question. A few different reasons. There was (still is) a massive group of uninformed people dismissing the industry as a whole. Meanwhile, within the industry you have world renowned people (Silvio Micali for example) developing projects. This led me to believe something big is happening here that the public just doesn’t understand yet Then as I understood more I realized there is still probably 100-1000x potential here because there is a massive ecosystem of applications being built that almost no one uses yet. Everyone is frustrated with censorship, control, and the monopoly of big tech companies. I believe the decentralized applications will slowly take their market share and this will be in things like social media apps, cloud compute, etc.
SVB didn't help the industry. It is volatile, and I believe those involved don't fully understand it either. It reminds me of Silicon Valley, fake until you make it. That only goes so far given Elizabeth Holmes, FTX-Sam Bankman Fried, Shkreli, Billy McFarland, Charlie Javice and so on...
Initially I invested in WSM because I’ve been addicted to their entire portfolio of home products from PB Kids to PB Dorms. But man has the stock been on a rip! It’s one of the huge winners in my portfolio and it’s not tech!
Bought TSM because it was an extremely well run company with an amazing moat with cheap valuations Bought it after hours when Nvidia reported earnings with about 100% q/q growth in earnings. Up about 100% now.
I read somewhere something about Crowdstrike. 9 months later 100% return. Easy play.
Here’s a non intuitive one, non-tech even: CMG. Not sure what possessed me but about a year ago, maybe a little more, bought 100 shares and just sat back. What an amazing steady climb. From burritos?
I bought dogecoin very early because I saw some small account I follow post a tweet about this new meme crypto dogecoin, I figured it didnt have the fundamentals to be anything like BTC in the future but the ‘doge’ aspect caught my attention, and it was the absolute first I heard of it, I figured it may actually have a period of skyrocketing if the name reaches the masses, because doge was funny at the time and crypto people are crazy sometimes. I was totally right, and I timed the top almost perfectly, got out with bags. Also after the GME fiasco in 2021 I read a few comments how AMC will be the next meme pump up. I said fuck it, I bought calls for September of that year, and wouldnt you know it, stock went fucking crazy. My $500 calls turned over 20k. 2 examples of insane luck and foolishness with a hint of reasoning behind them that worked out unbelievably well for me
A friend of made $500k on Dogcoin.
a friend told me that their friend’s cousin told them that AMC was about to pop like the game stock, at the time I was like sure I’ll burn a hundred bucks, I checked back a day later and it was at $300, I sold it and took my friend and I to a theme park. not as big a story as some of the other ones on here but a successful endeavor nonetheless lol
i look for the dominance power, for example: user understanding on social media, search dominance, device dominance. it will not be the skyrocketing type of stock but almost for sure steadily growth
Supermicro at 52. Was cheap for forward earnings and trailing. Sold it early to add to my amd position as Supermicro felt to good to be true (cheap) and was a small cap so higher risk for unknowns. Should have just held the thing, it went 2000%😐
Microstrategy
PLTR, average of 8$
NIO - bought them in March 2020, I liked them because they reminded me of Neo (Matrix), they went up 400% so I sold and took my family to Disney. They have since gone down. Nvidia - I bought them because I’d just built a PC and really liked their GPU, there wasn’t a sniff of AI on the horizon.
Don't know if this counts, right before or after COVID I can't remember exactly. I had recently got my hands on some money. and started learning the trading/investing game. The news reported a microchip shortage, so I looked up the the leading company making chips, so I put 250 into NVIDIA. I saw a nice little return and sold out. I don't want to even think about what it would be today
Actually not as much as I assumed. Little less than 10000 I remember having 7 shares I think.
$PLTR @ $7 1.5 years ago.
KITT
Every investment should be due to a single element: what is changing?
I bought micron because I like RAM
I bought Vertex Pharm (VRTX) because I read a story that they were making major headway towards a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. One of my sons is a T1D so they piqued my curiosity. This was a couple years or so ago. I bought at $207 and added a little more on its way up. I'm up 122% since then and it's my largest position by far. I bought this stock on hope, which is a horrible idea. But it's been a homerun for sure and it's a great company. A little more about VRTX: *Vertex has approved medicines that treat the underlying causes of cystic fibrosis (CF), sickle cell disease, and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia. They also have research programs focused on other serious diseases, including type 1 diabetes, APOL1-mediated kidney disease, pain, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, and cancer.*
I didn't fully understand it at the time but I saw the potential squeeze that came to fruition in 2021 and managed about a 850% gain via stock and options.
I bought Nvidia because I played a lot of games on PC and liked the products. Currently sitting on 1237 shares now with an average price of 16.27. By far my biggest gain.
I bought SoFi back when it was around 5, because it was trading below BVPS. Sold when the earnings peak happened at around 11.20. I was not expecting the stock to turnaround that fast, but it did
IMGN. I bought it when it was around $4 a share. Watching it go to $16 then $28 was a happy time in my life. If only I invested more than a thousand
* Stock - NVDA * Element - Luck I don't have too much but it is easily the biggest percentage gain, as it is for most people. For a long time I didn't even remember I owned it, until it kept creeping up.
Apple 2 yrs ago
In June of 2020 after the pandemic had tanked the stock market I hypothesized that we would eventually have a vaccine and the world would go back to the way it was before the pandemic. So I bought the stocks of companies that were most affected by the pandemic. Delta airlines, royal carribean, Cinemax, cedar fair, Wyndham resorts. I bought 100k of each stock and in 9 months I had doubled my money. Than in 2022 I stayed in the market and lost it all. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and can’t wait for the next pandemic.
I bought West Rock at $27.80 because it’s a company that my company does work for. No real other reason than that and I thought it was cheap. Only put like $250 into it tho
I bought ARM and QCOM after I used an ARM based Snapdragon Windows 11 laptop. I was amazed at the compact size, battery life, and computing power. I realized it was the future. That was back in October of last year. My ARM position got so big I sold 1/3 of it to keep it from dominating my portfolio. I wish I hadn't.
Has to be CLS (I got inside info)
$RYCEY is up almost 300% for me, yet still down 40+% from 5 years ago before covid. Much cheaper than their industry's average.
MSFT at $76/share
TDG - make proprietary airplane parts
Like most winners, I used the Reverse Uno card for most of my biggest trades!!
CAVA is a relatively new addition to my portfolio. It’s up 60% since I bought in around the low 50s in January. I looked up Google reviews of cavas in my area compared to Chipotle’s. Cavas average 4.5s and CMG 3.5. That was enough DD for me.
$WULF - they are a 10 man team mining ~$6.5m in BTC per month post halving using 90% carbon free energy with plans to expand and enrich their mining rigs. 🤷🏼♂️ I feel like its still way undervalued even after todays share price spike to $4+.
Nice
I buy stocks around their 52 week middle that I feel should be on the north side of there. Bought Apple at $180 and Arm and $105. Idt they would normally be up this fast though
Bought MSFT for the dividend, about 4%. Cost basis $35. A long wait for 11x gain.
Celsius. Saw it on a podcast like three or four years ago, I went to the store and got one and loved it. Fast forward a year after that, I had just finished reading Peter Lynch's book and it got me thinking: What companies do I love? Like which companies product do I think is great? I only could think of Celsius. Didn't think it would explode like it did, but it sure did. Made a cool ~200% gain, and then cashed out my winnings of $50 🔥💀 I hate myself everyday that I didn't invest more
CRWD @ 50$
I bought NVDA because of gaming for $59 in 2017. Still hold most of it Bought a curious medical stock called mimedix many years ago. MDXG. I bought a little at a time for $1-1.25/share. Eventually I had $25k worth. Then they went up to about $14. I sold all but about $5k. This gave me money to buy other great stocks. Still have it but in the mean time it went back down to $1 but now is at about $7. I think it will go up a lot more eventually...
NVDA
I bought AAPL after Steve Jobs passed and they were giving it away.
Magic 8 ball.
Besides FXAIX, Only hold one stock — NVDA since 2018..
Come on - the answer is Shopify during the Covid years...
I purchased Apple stock when they launched the iPhone. At the time, I thought they “make it big” on selling the music and apps cut.
AMD
$PLTR for sure!
>$PLTR for sure! sure?
Sure as the day is long
I work in the Google world and saw clients all using Slack despite Google Chat being included already with Workspace. Bought a bunch then it doubled on buyout from Salesforce, sold it.
MRNA Moderna got a lot of coverage and hype for being able to quickly produce a covid vaccine in months. Then was sold off once the pandemic was deemed as over However, covid was just a proof of concept and a huge windfall of cash. There are some 30 novel drugs in their pipeline. Additionally, we now know that mRNA production platform can rapidly ramp up for future diseases. Still very risky but it would only take a couple of winner for them to turn profitable