Favourite current stock ideas.

[Evan]

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NTDOY

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Just imagine how much smarter you would have been if you'd thought of it a month ago.

Link for those that will inevitably not get it.

[Uglyowl]

Favorite in portfolio: COP (Conoco Philips) Cash cow with huge earnings and recent $15B buyback (w/ low P/E) will be great for stock.

Going to buy: MET (Metlife). Limited downside due to book value of assets, strong earnings growth and aging population leading to large growth in retirement services

[Fishhead24]

Great pick with COP....................two thumbs up!

[Shoe]

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NTDOY

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Just imagine how much smarter you would have been if you'd thought of it a month ago.

Link for those that will inevitably not get it.

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I did buy it over a month ago with the little bit of money I had at the time. Just wasn't able to get more money there in time [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Would also like to add JNJ.

[cecil]

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if you include the $5/share dividend the profit is > 100%

[Rolon]

BBBB: Blackboard Inc. is a online learning platform that the uni. I attended and many others use. Kids hate but teachers love it. They just started moving into the high school sector and I expect teachers will love it just as much there. I have talked to teachers who rant and rave how much easier blackboard makes their lifes' and we all know how lazy teachers can be. Its a very peter lynch approach but its going up nearly 60% since I bought it 4 months ago. I'm thinking about buying a couple more shares pretty soon.

[DcifrThs]

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BBBB: Blackboard Inc. is a online learning platform that the uni. I attended and many others use. Kids hate but teachers love it. They just started moving into the high school sector and I expect teachers will love it just as much there. I have talked to teachers who rant and rave how much easier blackboard makes their lifes' and we all know how lazy teachers can be. Its a very peter lynch approach but its going up nearly 60% since I bought it 4 months ago. I'm thinking about buying a couple more shares pretty soon.

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i LOVED blackboard & i went to a top 25 MBA program in the midwest. we changed from our proprietary system after my first year. BB is way way way better & everybody loved it.

Barron

EDIT: just noticed "uni" so i take it you're from europe or likely went to uni there. even more reason to love this thing if true

[bills217]

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Can someone post some idea that isnt wildly speculative with 30+ p/e multiples? this is investing not pure gambooling

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I think 30 is a pretty low cutoff to start branding things as wild speculation.

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UA under armour

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What about 70? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Evan]

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Can someone post some idea that isnt wildly speculative with 30+ p/e multiples? this is investing not pure gambooling

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I think 30 is a pretty low cutoff to start branding things as wild speculation.

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UA under armour

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What about 70? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Sure, I don't know. I don't think there's anything really notable about a company with a 70 p/e. It doesn't fit into the model of investments that some people prefer, but some companies are growing quickly and deserve higher premiums to their earnings. I don't think that's good or bad, it's just the way it is. there's investments at all different risk levels. Someone that buys muni bonds might think buying an s&p index fund is crazy, to each his own.

[CrushinFelt]

I'm liking BBBB as well. However, I'm not a fan of negative earnings.

THe January '08 option with a strike of 45 is priced at $3.60. May use that as a low stakes gamble imstead of actually buying the stock (it's a speculative stock in a shakey market).