so in this video I'm going to be talking
about the five stocks I currently own
and what I want to do in this video is
give you guys my number one reason for
why each of these stocks are in my
personal investment portfolio now before
I get into the video I just wanted to
mention that I know this is probably a
because a lot of people are curious in
what stocks I own and I also expect it
to get a lot of hate comments people
saying why do you own these stocks and
what I want to tell you guys is that
these are the stocks I personally see
value in and these are the companies
that I want to own it doesn't mean that
you need to buy these companies and it
shouldn't mean that you need to buy
these companies because everybody out
there who's investing in the stock
market needs to be making their own
decisions and doing their own research
and not simply being a piggyback
investor this is one of the reasons why
I've been kind of hesitant to be sharing
the stocks that I own because I do worry
about people simply hearing oh this guy
owns this stock I better buy it that is
no way to invest and so I just wanted to
throw that out there to you guys if you
are investing in the stock market make
sure you are doing your own research
your own due diligence and you're not
simply piggybacking off of other people
but that being said I'm open to hearing
whatever you guys have to say about my
picks and let me know what you guys
think if you own these stocks if you are
planning on buying them if you wouldn't
touch it with a 10-foot Pole
I would love to hear what you guys think
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get into the video and talk about the
five stocks I currently own number one
is one a lot of people probably don't
know that I own unless you've been
watching this channel for a number of
years or at least a couple of months I
don't think I'm
about this in a long time but one of the
stocks I own is a company called
National Grid they trade under the
symbol ng G it is a uk-based utility
company and so those shares are
purchased through an ADR an American
Depositary receipt nothing that you guys
really need to know but it's kind of
interesting and the reason why I own
this company is because I got to buy it
super cheap when I was an employee there
so when I worked at National Grid I was
able to basically take a portion of my
paycheck and invest it into the company
stock and I was able to buy preferred
shares that were at a discount to the
market and when I was buying shares our
stock was trading at about $70 per share
and I was able to buy shares at around
58 to $59 now that's about what National
Grid stock trades at at this point in
time but they're also a very very good
dividend stock so I own shares of
National Grid the reason why I own this
company is because boring is good
sometimes I think it's a great dividend
pick I think they pay a very strong
dividend it's a very boring investment
it's a company that's experiencing
virtually no growth I mean what growth
are you're gonna see in the utility
industry but if you're a dividend
investor it might be a company you want
to look into and do some more research
but because I was able to get at a good
discount I bought a lot of shares in the
two years that I worked there and I have
that set up as a dividend reinvestment
so all of my dividends from that
particular stock go back into the
issuing stock I don't plan on ever
selling that or ever touching it I plan
on having that be a completely separate
money-making entity for me so it just
keeps on rolling that dividend back into
the issuing stock and allowing me to
earn compound interest so that is the
first stock that I own number two is
Alibaba trades under the symbol ba ba
and I'm also going to include number
three here Facebook because I own both
of these companies primarily for the
same reasons there's a lot of reasons to
own Alibaba and Facebook but the number
one reason in my opinion is the
fundamental strength of these companies
particularly looking at Facebook so
starting off with Alibaba if you take a
peek at the balance sheet of this
company this is a company with 32
billion dollars in cash
they have a hundred fourteen billion
dollars in assets and just fifty six
billion dollars of total liabilities
giving them a debt to asset ratio of two
to one which is a very strong number in
my opinion there's a lot of companies
out there including ones I'm invested in
that have a sizable debt load and
especially when you're seeing you know
slowing of the economy if that were to
happen you want to be investing in
companies that have a good cash pile and
also have a low debt load because that's
what's going to allow them to make it
through that time period it's not having
all this debt to pay back and so I like
Alibaba because they basically have two
dollars in assets for every one dollar
they have in liabilities on Facebook
primarily the same exact reason it's a
company that has a large cash pile but
their debt to asset ratio is bananas
I mean eighty five billion dollars in
assets compared to ten billion dollars
in liabilities with zero zero dollars in
long-term debt there's not a lot of
companies out there that have no
long-term debt but Facebook is one of
them which means that for every dollar
that Facebook owes they have $8.50 in
assets to back that so they have immense
financial strength and you might be
wondering why does Facebook have such an
attractive balance sheet it's because
their business model is amazing you know
they don't have any inventory they're
literally just offering web services
kind of like Google is and they're able
to run ads and generate massive amounts
of cash from that platform so very very
lean business model and very very strong
company in terms of the fundamentals so
that is why the most the number one
reason why I own both Alibaba and
Facebook stock number four is the one
that I get a lot of over it's
definitely deserved because I started
buying this stock way too early it has
definitely been a learning experience
for myself and that is General Electric
trading under the symbol GE and the
reason why I'm buying this stock and why
I own this stock is that in my opinion
this company is simply too big to fail
and they are a time-tested company this
company has been through it all they've
been through the Great Depression
they've been through all of the stock
market crashes they made it through the
2008 crash when GE Capital was basically
sinking the entire company and they
unable to weather every single storm now
I've done a couple of videos on GE since
so if you guys want more information on
why I own this stock go ahead and jump
over to one of my other videos I'm not
gonna go into that detail here but I
believe that it is too big to fail it's
time tested and I see this company is
having some very strong companies some
very strong franchises primarily
aviation and healthcare I think those
are the two strongest units for them and
what General Electric needs to do from
here is pay down some of their debts
simplify the business portfolio and
focus on the core businesses that have
worked for them in the past they just
became too scattered and went too heavy
into one business the power business but
again that's going to be a conversation
for another video I'd be happy to make
you know video after video about General
Electric talking about this company and
then number 5 v stock that I own is JD
comm they trade under the symbol JD and
this gives me in my opinion diversified
exposure to the largest e-commerce
market which is the Chinese market yes I
am heavily involved in growth technology
and e-commerce with this portfolio but
it's a tolerance or it's a risk that I
am tolerant of and ok with you have to
stomach a very large amount of risk to
be so heavily involved in technology
companies and e-commerce but it's
something I'm personally completely fine
with and the main reason for that is
because the way that I am set up or the
way that my business is set up I
generate a lot of cash from my business
and I'm able to funnel a lot of money
into these stocks and so my number one
concern is not buying these stocks at
the perfect time or the perfect price I
believe in these five companies because
of these reasons I outlined here and so
I'm regularly contributing more money
into this portfolio usually three to
five thousand dollars per month going
into these stocks now beyond that I also
have three other items in my portfolio
and those are my index fund investments
and so basically my goal here with my
stock market portfolio is to eventually
have half of my money in my individual
stock selections and half of my money in
index funds with the dividends and
distributions reinvested because I know
that odds are that I will not beat the
market and if I don't then half of my
money is invest
in owning the market so it's kind of a
hedge against you know not beating the
market with my individual stock picks
but again I'm a long-term investor and
these are stocks I plan on holding in
most cases for three to five years if
not more beyond that so we're really
gonna see how these picks do over the
next couple of years in the short term I
look like a complete moron I'm well
aware of that but in the long term I do
believe in these companies that I
personally see value in them and if
you're curious what my index fund picks
are it is VX US which is the Vanguard
total international market which does
not include the u.s. it is vbk which is
the Vanguard Small Cap Growth Fund and
then V V which is the Vanguard large cap
the reason why I do that is because
rather than holding Bo oh I like to have
more small cap exposure it's a more
aggressive investment but as a 23 year
old you know I can afford to be a little
bit more aggressive with my selection so
I like to be heavier involved in the
growth stocks rather than investing in
large cap stocks but those are the index
funds that I own within my portfolio but
anyways guys that's gonna wrap up this
video I've decided from this point
forward on my channel that I'm only
going to be talking about stocks I
actually own I know in the past with my
top 5 picks for 2018 with some of the
other stocks I've talked about I was
talking about stocks I didn't actually
own within my portfolio and I felt that
I wasn't offering much value by simply
talking about stocks and not actually
owning them or putting my money where my
mouth is and so I've decided that I'm
only now going to talk about stocks that
I actually own and so hopefully you guys
are okay with that hopefully you're
accepting of that and if I do add more
stocks to my portfolio I will let you
guys know and I'll also let you know as
I'm adding more cash and contributing to
my investment portfolio but I just
wanted to let you guys know in case you
were wondering about that anyways guys
that's gonna wrap up this video I hope
you enjoyed it like I said if you want
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watching let me know what you guys think
in the comment section below and I will
see you in the next video
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