While the market is doing well I thought I’d opportunistically review my stock picks from 2006. Here’s a breakdown of my picks: Stock$/share Jan 2006$/share Nov 2006% change Starbucks3136+16% Verizon3135+13% Apple7590+20% Whole Foods7749-36% Google442508+15% Ouch! What happened to Whole Foods? If you happened to invest in those stocks equally you would have returned %5.6. Good thing I don’t have [...]
I remember roughly 2 years ago, AMD brought the Opteron (and Athlon 64) to market. It was awesome! I still remember being amazed at the power and inexpensiveness of the Athlon 64 I used to use. It was and continues to be a great chip. Meanwhile, Intel was stuck in Pentium [...]
On Jan 4th, I recommended some stocks. Here are the stocks and their prices: Starbucks (SBUX ) was $31, now $35.5 Verizon (VZ) was $31, now $33.5 Apple (AAPL) was $75, now $67.72 Whole Food (WFMI) was $77, now $63.52 Google (GOOG) was $442, now $378 looks [...]
I’ve made my first addition to my portfolio in 2006 with the purchase of 26 shares of Starbucks(symbol SBUX). Trading at over 50 times earnings, SBUX is not cheap but investors are counting on growth outside of the U.S. to propel earnings. My short list of stocks to watch in 2006 are:Verizon (VZ [...]