Markets. Dow is up 181, 30,150, all three of the averages setting record highs today. Shannon, you have made some very interesting moves in your portfolio, both what you have trimmed and what you have added to first to what you have trimmed apple and microsoft. T tell me why. So really two different stories here, scott. First of all, ill start with microsoft. As i talked about on the show, this is our Largest Holding and remains a very high convince for us we still have a lot of confidence in azure and the endtoend software it offers but from a portfolio perspective, it was time to trim apple, weve seen a significant runup, 75 in the last year and we really feel like a lot of that has come on multiple expansion. Weve gone from about 15 times to about 27 times. Although we do believe in the services storyand the mo monetization, we think there are better opportunities we trimmed back from a market weight to an underweight were going to continue to hold the stock and maybe look for oppor
Leventhal. We are basically at the highs of the day, call it a 500point gain, the s p 500 good for 1. 5 . Nasdaq which was negative very early today is back above 12,000, thats a gain of 1 . The small caps have had a tremendous run of their own. The russell 2000 is up by better than 2 . Josh brown, if i told up that the dow on march 23rd hit a low of 18,213 and we have had a 12,000point rally since then, you would say what i would say this is why people who are not only invested for long term by continually adding to their investments, 401 k s or automated advisers, et cetera, have done themselves a huge favor people on the other side of that debate who think their job is to wake up every morning and make in our out decisions have not done themselves a favor. Im 43 years old im pretty sure ill see dow 100,000 someday. Is he you have to orient your mentality in order to get to days like today. If your mentality is oriented toward trying to outsmart everybody all the time, you dont get t
Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quarter. They continue to buy back a lot of stock i do wonder even at the margins, ty any, if this is in any way a statement tha
Lets begin with a check on stocks lets welcome in brian belski. Thank for having me ambitious call. How do we get there . This will be a transition that takes several months if not into the year you, well into 2022 the unprecedented price moves in 2020 are going to turn into, we think, unprecedented earnings move in 2021 we think financials, Consumer Discretionary will lead the way. Were maintaining our stance of being neutral on technology and Communication Services over the next three to five years theyre by far our favorite sector in terms of growth we think this is going to be a turn around in terms of Earnings Growth theres no doubt that the vaccine is helpful, no doubt stimulus will be helpful, but theres also no doubt we are going to have more stayathome orders in the United States and therefore the stayathome stocks will do very well the bull market continues, we continue to believe that march 23rd, we dcontinue to believe that march 23rd was the controlaltdelete were bullish w
Territory, albeit slightly steve weiss, virus cases are exploding, 145,000, hospitalization new record, stayathome stocks are up, reopen stocks are down im wondering in the Bigger Picture but bringing it down to the sort of ground floor level, you just bought Delta Airlines the other day. We just talked about it. And im wondering if now youre reassessing that kind of move and whether other people should, too. Well, deltawas a position position and my portfolio is not very well balanced, its all in growth so i took a shot im not going to buy anymore here these airlines and Brad Gerstner pointed it out, theyre going to be diluted on an ongoing basis this year, next year as they seek to replace their bonds, their debt, with equity. Cramer this morning was right and ignore these covid cases at your own peril next couple of months, probably next three months are going to be very rocky from an economic standpoint as theres no appetite on the part of this administration to take any kind of st