anyone own GOOG today?

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Good day for Google stock. Up $90 per share. (approx)
 
Most. Of us are poor pilots,who can't afford the buy in price. Good luck for anyone who does own the stock.
 
Between GOOG and NFLX this week - just wow!
 
Casino... The bubble of 2007 is being repeated. Be careful.
 
I've had a few shares of GOOG for several years. Since it doesn't split or pay dividends, it's been one of my disappointments. It's been as high as or 7 or 800 I believe.
 
rbridges said:
I've had a few shares of GOOG for several years. Since it doesn't split or pay dividends, it's been one of my disappointments. It's been as high as or 7 or 800 I believe.
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It had been up as high as 600, today its about 700, after 15% gain today. Its sitting at a 75% gain since 2013, disappointing? Maybe you didn't buy enough.
 
jimbilly said:
It had been up as high as 600, today its about 700, after 15% gain today. Its sitting at a 75% gain since 2013, disappointing? Maybe you didn't buy enough.
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I was thinking it had been higher in the past. It has been a little disappointing in my portfolio. I bought in several years ago, but it was a little on the late side. I guess I do wish I had bought earlier and had been able to get more for the same investment.
 
I have 2 stocks that both went up $.05 today WHOOOP!
 
I own just a bit.

Been beddy beddy good to me!

I sometimes just buy stocks of things I use a lot. Netflix, Amazon, Walmart - stuff like that. Not foolproof but could do worse!
 
Great googly woogly!

We have an investment banker who listens to me then does what he damn well pleases.

I'm sure he tells his golf buddies "yeah, that hillbilly called me today and wanted to buy 'X' so I blew smoke up his ass and bought 'Y'. :rolleyes2:
 
I'd rather own stock that pays dividends, at least that's actually worth something while you have it. The only way non-dividend paying stocks are worth anything is when you actually sell them. Everything I have now pays me at least quarterly.
 
EdFred said:
I'd rather own stock that pays dividends, at least that's actually worth something while you have it.
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Valid strategy.

A decent portion of my portfolio is in dividend paying stocks or mutual funds, largely utilities.

But it's hard to sneeze at the gains to be had in stock price appreciation in non-dividend paying stocks. I'm in Google at about a split-adjusted $52/share. Apple at $4.50*. Following Peter Lynch's advice, some of my stocks are 10-, 20- or even 30+ "baggers". To leave gains like those on the table to earn a measly but reliable 3, 4 or 5% seems shortsighted at best.

But whatever lets you sleep at night!


*Which is now also a dividend paying stock as well.
 
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My son bought 1 share of Google a few weeks. We're using Google as a learning lesson. He picked the stock, and bought with his savings. He's 12.
 
jimbilly said:
It had been up as high as 600, today its about 700, after 15% gain today. Its sitting at a 75% gain since 2013, disappointing? Maybe you didn't buy enough.
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If it pays no dividend, then it pays nothing. Until you sell it, you are out.
 
jimbilly said:
anyone have AMZN today?
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My wife was employee #172 at Amazon, back when they gave you lotsa stock options in lieu of higher pay. Our biggest problem is a desire to diversify; but when you actually execute the options, Capital Gains tax eats you alive.

Back near when she quit Amazon, one of her newer co-workers found out about her early-employee status. "Gee, you must own an airplane and everything!"

She acknowledged that we did. Didn't mention it was a wood-and-canvas open-cockpit single-seater.....

Ron "Where's that Gulfstream catalog" Wanttaja
 
FastEddieB said:
Long term capital gains are currently pegged at 15%, are they not?

Paying taxes is never fun, but 15% hardly seems to be comparable to being eaten alive!
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It ain't the percentage, it's the magnitude. For a guy who has eaten peanut-butter sandwiches for lunch at work every day for the past 35 years, writing tax checks with that many zeros gets to you.

As the politician said, "A million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking about REAL money."

Ron Wanttaja
 
wanttaja said:
It ain't the percentage, it's the magnitude. For a guy who has eaten peanut-butter sandwiches for lunch at work every day for the past 35 years, writing tax checks with that many zeros gets to you.

As the politician said, "A million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking about REAL money."

Ron Wanttaja
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If you don't want to write a check for less than 1/6th of what you pulled in, I will gladly take all of it and do so.
 
FastEddieB said:
Long term capital gains are currently pegged at 15%, are they not?

Paying taxes is never fun, but 15% hardly seems to be comparable to being eaten alive!
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When you exercise employee options like that, the difference between the option strike price and stock's fair market price is immediately income to you. So it's taxed at your normal income tax rates. Your date to start the capital gains clock is the day you exercise, not the date the options are granted/vested, because that's when you actually own the stock.

There are epic stories of dot-commers exercising insanely valued options, holding the shares, not selling any to pay the taxes, buying cars and houses, then watched as the stock price the stock price cratered and ended up losing it all and owing a big tax bill.
 
So.... How come nobody brags about the stocks that took a dump? Everybody on this thread is a genius! :D
 
rpadula said:
So.... How come nobody brags about the stocks that took a dump? Everybody on this thread is a genius! :D
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Not bragging, but...

Pan Am
Enron
Excelsior Henderson

The key is on the downside the most you can lose is the amount invested. With discipline one can use stop loss orders to avoid total losses.

But the upside can run virtually without limit.

For example, I bought Exelsior Henderson at the same time I bought Polaris. Both were about to compete with Harley Davidson, and I thought one or both might succeed. Only one did. But my gains in Polaris far, far exceed the drubbing I took on Exelsior Henderson.
 
goog Up 35 after hours on restructuring news

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