Which stocks would you hold for 30 years?

[eagle488]

Time Warner is too diluted and has products that are fastly becoming outdated. The only part in Time Warner I have confidence in right now is its broadband division.

I think the broadband division will eventually be defunct as well. There will be other inovations that will make wired or cable based broadband outdated.

Cable modems have reliability problems and so thats why I use DSL. When fiber optic phonelines become more prevalent, then I believe more people will switch their phone/cable/internet over to companies like Verizon. Verizon offers a better deal then Time-Warner and their broadband is far more reliable.

I had Cablevision internet for nearly 2 years. It was very fast when it worked, but there were ongoing problems. Sometimes the connection would become very slow and I found myself cycling the cable modem just about every few days.

Since I got Verizon DSL, I have had no problems and the only time I notice a difference in the speed is when I am downloading a superlarge file.

 

[Chuck Krug]

I like Unilever (UN) for the longerterm

they operate in a lot of countries (diversified currency risks)
their portfolio consists of a lot of different brands
they pay a good dividend (0.83/ share)

HPQ and INTC look good too imo

Why not some ETFs as well: DIA, SPY, QQQQ, VTI

Chuck

 

[aPismoClam]

Which stocks would you hold for 30 years?

none.

 

[brownsfan019]

Quote from Chuck Krug:

I like Unilever (UN) for the longerterm

they operate in a lot of countries (diversified currency risks)
their portfolio consists of a lot of different brands
they pay a good dividend (0.83/ share)

HPQ and INTC look good too imo

Why not some ETFs as well: DIA, SPY, QQQQ, VTI

Chuck

ETF's are a great idea as well - if you ETF's are acceptable I would lean towards those.

 

[GTS]

VZ - they are just starting their fiber deployment (FIOS) that should repeat benefits for many years to come and the initial results look encouraging.

(Also agree with ETF's)

 

[Bitstream]

ya, i got a boatload of autostrade and enel shares since the ipo and i ain't gonna get rid of those certificates for at leats 20yrs. and autostrade is beta stuff, doubled already, enel has gone more or less nowhere but safe and good dividend. plannin' to add another ipo or a consumer stock to my eternal portfolio.

Quote from eagle488:

There is a reasoning behind my post.

I have a 401k and a Roth IRA. However, even maxing these instruments out, I dont believe that it will be enough. So I am figuring to buy shares of different companies at the rate of $1000 per month from computershares.com as a supplement. Take physical delivery of the shares and put them away in a safe deposit box. When they are finally sold, I will pay 15% on the capital gains IF there is a still a capital gains at that time. The reason why I would take physical delivery is so that it wont be easy to cash the shares out. Let them sit and act as either a method for retirement or an emergency cash fund should something go wrong with my other exploits.

I have the Mergent's Dividend Achievers list that I am working off of. I figure that large companies that pay a dividend will perform the best in the long run. My picks so far are the following:

Briggs & Stratton
Becton Dickinson
Automatic Data Processing
Anheuser-Busch
American International Group
All-State
AFLAC
3M
Abbott Laboratories
Chubb
Caterpillar
Clorox
AT&T
HP
Bank of America
Citigroup
ConEd
Washington Mutual
Fidelity
Colgate-Palmolive
Exxon
GE
GD
Exxon
Home Depot
IBM
Johnson and Johnson
Legg Mason
Lilly & Company
Lowes
M&T Bank
McDonalds
McCormick
T Rowe
TD Bank
P&G
Sherwin Williams
Walmart
Wrigley
State Street


Ok, I know thats more then five. My strategy would be to buy $1000 in shares from each of the companies on the above list each month for the next 5-10 years. The purpose of buying from a huge list is that one of the above companies will probably through some pains in a 30 year time frame. I look at big companies like Ford and Delta as shining examples.

I dont plan on repeat buying with any of the companies until I have run through the entire list.

 

[man]

Quote from eagle488:

Lets assume that you had to choose stocks to buy in the next two years. Once you purchase the stocks, then the stock certificates would be put in a safe deposit box. The safe deposit box would then be opened in 30 years and the securities sold.

You will have up to two years from today to buy the stocks. The reason why you have two years is so you can pick a suitable entry point. For example, P&G seems a little bit overbought at the current time. So you will be able to wait a few months to buy it.

Which 5 stocks would you pick based upon the above scenario?

just a thought. merely five stocks have to outperform heavily to
compensate for additional idiosyncratic risk compared to buying
an etf or an index. so they have to be aggressive stocks. but
that probably means as well, that the current highflyers like
Google are as much excluded as Goldman. i would increase the
list to at least a dozen.

and i would ask myself what i want out of that. really in %-terms.
if you wanted to make 20% on avg per year this is a very
different story than 8%. and think cross border. an indian
financial stock might be a good alternative to goldman.

i just realise that i am beating around the bush without answering
the question. i personally still wait for a meditation related stock.
that is my personal pick for this century ...

 

[jan168]

good morning,

--just found this Elite site two days ago and still learning this site.

I just heard the CNBC announced the HET- Harris will going to privite.

what will happen to stock holder when a company goes to privite?

thanks,

Jan

 

[man]

Quote from jan168:

good morning,

--just found this Elite site two days ago and still learning this site.

I just heard the CNBC announced the HET- Harris will going to privite.

what will happen to stock holder when a company goes to privite?

thanks,

Jan

dear jan,
first of all: welcome to ET.
second, these threads have names and their content is somehow
related to these names. maybe you start a thread on your own
or find a place where the question fits, which is, i am afraid, not
here ...

 

[m4a1]

you get paid the acquisition price.

Quote from jan168:

good morning,

--just found this Elite site two days ago and still learning this site.

I just heard the CNBC announced the HET- Harris will going to privite.

what will happen to stock holder when a company goes to privite?

thanks,

Jan