I was being myself trolling as usual, but here’s a bond fund (BIL):
One day, one day. Or better yet, JEPI!
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Doesn’t look very exact to me… 
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Sorry, I think we all have more money than time. That’s why I stop analyzing a company that only grows buying other companies, because everybody can do that.
Price is always important. For us happily living in Switzerland, price appreciation is from heaven because it is tax free.
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BTI down >8% pre-market. Ouch.
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Yes. Not sure if i should trim my tobacco exposure
My gut reaction was to add to BTI, but I already have a full position.
2nd reaction was to sell a cash secured put, but the premiums are (IMO) meagre despite today’s drop.
I’m waiting for it to go down further.
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I don’t own BTI because I am lazy and comparing USD to GBP is work. But for fun I checked my dividend strategy cash flow requirements and they are all fulfilled. As they are at my actual tobacco holding, MO. Both pay nice dividends and have the cash flow to maintain it. No excessive debts.
I always try to hold as long as possible and I hope I still can hold for a very long time. Dividends >7% from those cash cows are nice.
The market chatter is best ignored.
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Actually this is the perfect stock for the lazy like you dual listing BATS in GBP and BTI in USD.
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No, I mean the company numbers. They are published in GBP. I don’t care for the market price, except for my “market dividend” concept.
It is actually quiet some work to compare numbers in different currencies over time.
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I’m not clear why that should impact things. So what if the numbers are in GBP?
Not a big problem, just more difficult to compare to my other holdings which are all in USD. And there is not that nice Edgar interface as for U.S. stocks, it’s all text. Many finance internet pages just fail to acknowledge the different currencies and therefore have wrong numbers.
I do invest in some non-U.S. companies, but it is usually more work. I find more than enough U.S. companies for my dividend portfolio and they usually do business in the whole world. However, my momentum strategy invests in all countries.
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Despite my tongue in cheek post above comparing BTI and BATS I actually agree with you: unless you have access to “professional” financial data, it’s harder to look at companies that don’t provide EDGAR filings.
The EDGAR filings are typically much more detailed, you – as a retail investor – can easily access information about the company’s business, the risks they see to their business, cash flow statements, debt (maturity schedules), etc etc.
There are professional data aggregators like Bloomberg or FactSet* that with armies of analysts will compile somewhat standardized data out of these non-EDGAR filing companies’ reports, but subscribing to Bloomberg or FactSet data is very expensive and typically done only by professional / institutional money managers.
FASTgraphs uses FactSet data at its base and thus readily displays (aggregated) financial data for companies even when there’s no EDGAR filings.
* By the way, FactSet is one of those companies on my eternal watchlist. Big moat as Bloomberg is privately held and other direct competitors like Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters) are inferior.
Alas, despite their exemplary earnings graph and dividend track record, they’re always a little too expensive for me.
Maybe interesting for a younger investor with a multi-decade time horizon? Unless A Oy upends the moat of analysts plowing through those company financial reports … (I doubt it, though, or at least I wouln’t trust AI’s analysis for the foreseeable years to come).
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Had couple of years ago roughly 28 stocks but switched then to VTI and co. Simply had not the time anymore to analyze - more or less - the various companies. Moreover, VT(I) is easy to handle and it‘s a no-brainer.
After warching from the sideline, how RHM skyrocked, I finally bough today a small batch 
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That was a massive miss for me. I wanted to buy Rheinmetall before the Russian invasion but didn’t buy for the most stupid reason: I didn’t find the right ticker when I was searching for it! I don’t even know why I couldn’t find it because when I search now there is no problem at all. A 10x opportunity down the drain!
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There is still time for the Ukraine War recovery play:
Edit: given Trump’s position on Europe “they should fend for themselves”, there is still ample opportunity to stock up on Europe defense stock.
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I’m at a loss for what to invest in and looking for inspiration.
If you had to invest in something today, what would be your top picks?
Not easy to answer without context of the underlying strategy.
Per today I have the following stocks on “buy” in my momentum strategy (I own all of them):
ehth
ibex
kd
mcs
rngr
snfca
tpc
I took partial profit from SMCI today after crossing 1000% gain (again, with a double position) and soon will have to invest that money. If I don’t find a new company I will have to double down on one of the above mentioned. I already doubled on KD, a triple position would be a newbie, but my strategy allows (mandates even) for that when having to invest.
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What do you guys think of RXRX?
It looks to have a lot of potential, and the price at the moment is fairly small. NVDIA seems to have a large investment with them.