We made a change in the Income/Stability portfolio. Shares of Meta spiked in the wake of a particularly strong quarter. The shares rose by 10% on a simply horrible day for enterprise software stocks and almost anything related to software. That took the shares to a relatively strong valuation-of course that depends on whether last quarter’s growth…
We added 40 additional shares of AppLovin to the high growth portfolio this morning at a price of $537.01. That is all the shares we were able to buy at that price. The cost of the purchase was $21,390. This brings the margin balance to $787,627. This brings our APP holding to 140 shares with…
We sold the remaining 400 shares we had of GitLab this morning. We sold the shares at $41.09 and this raised $16, 435. In the course of researching the article I am writing about Nebius, I came across a company called Cursor. While not an exact competitor, Cursor has increased its ARR by 10X to $1 billion…
The last couple of weeks have been painful for investors in high growth IT shares-brutal really. With a crescendo of bubble articles and headlines talking about stretched valuation, good news got interpreted negatively and indifferent news resulted in significant share price compression. Basically, as the year end approaches, some investors, with significant gains have moved…
We made some changes in the high growth portfolio this morning. The reasons are detailed in the commentary which will be sent shortly. We sold 100 shares of Snowflake at $270.99. We now have 300 shares with a weight of 3.38%. The sale raised $27,090. We reentered a position in AppLovin. This is a starter…
The market continues to trade in a consolidation mode, and we took some actions today. Although objectively the inflation news was reasonably positive, and initially stocks rose, selling resumed shortly after the opening. The consolidation trade may last until earnings season gets underway. Or it may last until the next Fed policy meeting. My ability…
Sale of AppLovin; Purchases of Monday, Atlassian, SentinelOne and Samsara in the High Growth portfolio Sale of NetApp and Cognizant and purchases of Dell and Google in the Income/Stability portfolio We made some portfolio changes today. We do not intend to make changes every day, but when opportunities arise, we take them. High Growth We…
Shares of AppLovin have continued to rise. We sold another 25 shares this morning leaving 150. AppLovin is a decidedly “risk-on” investment at this point. The shares have appreciated by 25% since their inclusion in the S&P. Their relative valuation has reached a noticeable premium. So, we have continued to sell into strength. Our latest…
I made some portfolio changes on an opportunistic basis. There were no news event that motivated these transactions; simply a desire to take advantage of some share price anomalies. This has so far been a “Tuesday against the trend” day. It is also the day before the Fed’s decision on short term rates. At this…
We made some portfolio adjustments in the high growth portfolio this morning. We sold parts of positions in Pure Storage and AppLovin. Very tactical. Pure is now up more than 45% in the last month. Deserved-probably. A bit extended. I thought so. We now have 2400 shares of Pure and that has a weight of 9.48% in…