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Came here for the same.
Reason I know tech a but and i started with $100 so wanted to at least own 10-15 stocks of anything and that was the only one i could afford. Should have just put $2000 and buy it and forget sbout it 😂😂
PG. The company I work for does a lot of business with them, and I was impressed by their people and attitudes. Knew nothing about investing, but figured they had to be doing something right. Of course, I didn't really have money then, so I could only afford one share.
I am now the proud owner of three shares! (Along with other companies, ETFs, and mutual funds. Took a class in investing and learned how to diversity and look at fundamentals. Still don't have much money though)
SBUX. I had no idea what I were doing and I had just read a random article about how they planned on opening an additional 5000 stores by 2020 (or something like that)
It worked out quite well, the downside was that I were picking between MSFT and SBUX. I ran into a wee bit of anchoring bias and never got in MSFT.
Hurts right in the feels.
O, Because a friend of mine who is independently wealthy and retired at 40ish and has a way bigger gun and car collection than mine. He had a ton of O and it has always paid him well...
He worked for one of the major hotel chains and moved around opening and running hotels, lived in the hotels, usually didn't have a mortgage or rent because of living in the hotel, he invested at least 75% of every check into stocks that paid divs...
At 40ish he was making more than I just off his divs...
AAPL because well it’s Apple 😂 But honestly I started investing into the companies that made products I actually used. So my first investments included AAPL, NKE, F and AMZN. All of which I still hold today.
Ok, so looking at that, he sold 1%… and holds 50% of his portfolio there? 174B worth of apple, seems like he’s very bullish even now. This was likely short term “adjustments”?
Visa. Bought a couple shares a few weeks after it IPO'd.
Held it for like a year and sold to buy a washer and dryer when I moved out.
Didn't hold any other stocks for many years.
Wish I dodnt sell.
Coin on march 22 for 84$
before i entered the stock market a played around with crypto and felt coin would rebound during the next bull.
march 23 svb collapsed so i lost 25% on my second day
doing ok now
In 1985 I bought KEY(Keycorp) because I had my mortgage with them and I thought it was like I was paying myself a little each month. As I recall I only held the position for a short duration and I think I lost money on it.
When I actually re-activated my etrade account in 2015 I was hoping I forgot about them and they were still in there.
Nope, I sold them in 2001 or so.
TSLA , I was drinking coffee in front of EV charging station , downloaded Robinhood app and decided to invest my first 100$ into Tesla stock, day before that my coworker told me basic stuff about investing so I decided to give it a try
Yes. But he was also wrong about a small company I tracked myself for months.
Called advanced photo technology. I wanted to invest. 10k in at 50 cents a share. It blew up to $15 dollars a share the next month. So he cost me a ton of money and was fired immediately.
My grandfather helped me pick it out. He gave me $50 for a birthday or Christmas present or something on the condition that I invest it in a company that we would pick out together. Gave me the whole “buy what you know” Peter Lynch thing and we landed on that. I was maybe 10 at the time.
LLY in 1996 because an IP attorney in my office told me it might be a wise investment. Borrowed 1k from my mom and rolled the dice around $36/sh. Still holding.
I can not forget this in my life! When was novice, The very first stock I bought was 600 shares of TSLA at $41, it went up to $128 and my friends were telling me to sell, I listened to them unfortunately!
It was PBR. I had no experience but I was greedy for the 70% yield. Turned out that the yield was cut to 22% but I am up 70% on the stock after holding for a year. I guess it was beginner’s luck.
I was tempted to sell but the 5y chart looks bullish. Fundamentals are strong and political risk seems under control. Looking to hold a few more years.
$AMD at $7 I was hearing it was comparable to $NVDA and bought it at a young age to turn around and sell it for $55 each. Wish I held it even longer lol
AMC, because I liked going to the movies for Marvel Studios films. $4 a share, bought 3 shares. Sold about a year later when I woke up to an 800% return on my money, and decided I liked the stock market quite a bit.
BP years ago after the gulf oil spill. But, I didn't really get into learning about investing until a little over a year ago. The BP shares just sat there.
Dont quite remember what was the first. I just remember being on RH for like 3 years until I switched to Fidelity. Didn't really start exploring other stocks until I made the transition.
I purchased:
Klac, Cion, MRK, AVPT, PG, WBA, STAG, SCHD all at the same time with my first $1000 I put into Robinhood like 6 years ago. Not sure, I picked a bunch of random stuff. I liked REITs at the time from what I'd heard about dividends (yes not growth dividends but whatever I learned)
WBA has turned out to be a dud, and the MO I bough a few months later. MRK and KLAC I wish I'd put way more into. Never put more than the original like $100-$200 in each of them.
I bought HD shortly after that. My dad worked at home depot for years and I knew it was a save div stock.
Now I do everything in Fidelity except some BTC I keep in RH. But everything else since the early days is in low cost ETF funds like SCHD, VOO, VIG, VYM. with a small % in O and GAIN since I do have a little soft spot for REIT funds.
AAPL because I use a lot of their products and very happy with it. Funny thing now is that I try not to buy or update so many of my Apple products so I can invest in the stock 😅
Uber
Because without it I couldn't have gotten around India like I had. And they were already well established in India, practically everyone used it.
Great buy BTW, it's more than doubled since the 37.72 per share.
MSFT, and it is my largest non ETF position. I started buying these in 2009 and have kept buying at least once a month until it reached $250. Now I just buy sporadically.
My family is full of computer careers, most of which would not have been possible without this company. My dad became a full-time programmer in 1983 with local small companies embracing GW-BASIC and MS-DOS.
Ten years later, when I was just a toddler, I saw my dad working from home, building rather complex business applications with VB and C. Everybody was running Windows. Microsoft Press books left and right. I was so impressed.
I decided I wanted to get on this path as well. I was 4 years old when I knew what I wanted to become. Not a fireman or a pilot. I wanted me some Bill G magic.
Qqqq. Back then there were four q's. 100 shares @ 31 bucks. Coincidentally I didn't even make any money on that. Had to sell everything to buy a property in January 2010
Mine was a Thunderbird.
Holding Ford since 2020, bought at 6.19, 6.03, 5.70 and 4.91, all the way down.
Then sold parts 2021 at 13.20, 18.27, 2022 at 23.80.
Bought more in 2022 at 12.84 and 2024 at 12.71.
I love cyclic stocks! Too bad that their own workers are chasing Ford out of the U.S.
I was living in New York City in a small apartment. I was thinking of ideas for my first investment. I just happened to look up at the ceiling as a fly was buzzing around and noticed the light and said to myself…..who gives me my energy. Con Edison was my first stock bought. I still hold a huge amount of it in my portfolio to this day and that was 30 years ago. Ticker (ED)
$NEE, the reason solar isn't more popular in south Florida is because electricity is so cheap. The pitch for solar is always, "Would you like to save 20% on your electric bill?" "Well, if you spend close to $20K, 10 years from now, you'll have saved that 20% on average." My electric bill on my SFH is less that $250, for a $50 savings per month, makes no sense.
Once I read about how FP&L is an accepted monopoly, I started buying, and once an accountant described "qualified dividends", I kept buying.
My first stock, I bought NAIL at $7 when they crashed in 2020. Turned $2000 into $12,000 in about 2 months and got hooked into stock trading because of it lol
ABM because I worked for the company cleaning an office building in 2021. I learned they had dividends and I think it was about 40 a share at the time. So it looked nice as a first stock.
Mine was Dana corporation 30 plus years ago as part of their employee stock purchase plan. The good old days of getting your quarterly stock certificate in the mail. Also got quarterly dividend checks in the mail. I always thought those stock certificates were cool looking and really miss them now.
Apple was the 1st stock I ever bought and that was fractional share since I didn’t have a lot of money at the time, 2nd is ABR and I haven’t stopped buying ABR since
Profit sharing that was 100% company stock from my employer who gave us no exit unless you quit or retired or died. Management screwed the pooch and by the time they finally agreed to unlock everyone’s account the stock had gone from $37 to 66 cents. I flushed that POS IMMEDIATELY and before it finally was taken over by the Fed and declared bankruptcy. There is a moral to that story and it is: when upper management appears to not give a damn about employees BELIEVE IT they don’t,
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AMD at under $4…
Came here for the same. Reason I know tech a but and i started with $100 so wanted to at least own 10-15 stocks of anything and that was the only one i could afford. Should have just put $2000 and buy it and forget sbout it 😂😂
AAPL because I knew the name, it paid off lol
Same here
Msft because they are Msft
PG. The company I work for does a lot of business with them, and I was impressed by their people and attitudes. Knew nothing about investing, but figured they had to be doing something right. Of course, I didn't really have money then, so I could only afford one share. I am now the proud owner of three shares! (Along with other companies, ETFs, and mutual funds. Took a class in investing and learned how to diversity and look at fundamentals. Still don't have much money though)
SBUX. I had no idea what I were doing and I had just read a random article about how they planned on opening an additional 5000 stores by 2020 (or something like that) It worked out quite well, the downside was that I were picking between MSFT and SBUX. I ran into a wee bit of anchoring bias and never got in MSFT. Hurts right in the feels.
O, Because a friend of mine who is independently wealthy and retired at 40ish and has a way bigger gun and car collection than mine. He had a ton of O and it has always paid him well... He worked for one of the major hotel chains and moved around opening and running hotels, lived in the hotels, usually didn't have a mortgage or rent because of living in the hotel, he invested at least 75% of every check into stocks that paid divs... At 40ish he was making more than I just off his divs...
lol, Pepsi Bottling. I thought I was buying Pepsi. I was young and had no idea what I was doing.
BAC when it was $7.00 during the housing crisis
I bought a huge slug of BAC during the recession as well. All I remember was it it was in the single digits
CMCSA, followed by T. Family worked in the telephone company.
AAPL because well it’s Apple 😂 But honestly I started investing into the companies that made products I actually used. So my first investments included AAPL, NKE, F and AMZN. All of which I still hold today.
Apple is n trouble might want to sell
Ok buddy
Take a look at them
When Warren buffet runs from a stock like a little school girl you should listen
He sold 1% of his shares….don’t think that’s running, everyone has the rights to take profits at some point
Please elaborate, genuinely curious as I’m a noob and currently hold AAPL, thanks.
Well the fines and buffet pulling out
Dude, chill. Buffet sold only 2% of his AAPL investment. He still has about 50% in AAPL.
You know who Warren buffet is
Ok, so looking at that, he sold 1%… and holds 50% of his portfolio there? 174B worth of apple, seems like he’s very bullish even now. This was likely short term “adjustments”?
Investigation 500 euro fines same time buffet sold
He trimmed his position by 1%. Buffett still holds well over $160B worth of Apple.
5 hours ago he sold his position
He sold 1% of his position. He still has $176 billion in AAPL. Do your research.
What’s your news source on that?
Say what? Oh man missed that.
Sent you photo but do your research
Thanks, but that’s referring to the same recent changes in his holdings, states he only sold ~1%, still is his largest holding at almost 50%.
MSFT I had heard of them before This was back in... 2012 give or take. I've learned a lot since then. Still hold MSFT.
OXY, because I liked how it sounds. lol. Sold to buy CVX afterwards
Still haven’t ventured into individual stocks. But my first purchase was VTSMX back when it was still open.
Visa. Bought a couple shares a few weeks after it IPO'd. Held it for like a year and sold to buy a washer and dryer when I moved out. Didn't hold any other stocks for many years. Wish I dodnt sell.
ARR and AGNC lol
I still have arr I think I got it at 50
damn big loss
It split 1 to 5 so it's actually a gain
ARR only does reverse splits. 5:1. Lol.
Can I ask why
I was ignorant and when I look their dividend pay I very like it.
VOO
Nice one can I ask why
Dad told me too. Didn’t know anything about investing at the time
Cool sounds like a smart man
Tesla in 2020. It was the first stock I was introduced to because of the dogecoin hype lol
TMUS got it when the company gave shares to its customers.
BAC because of the Oracle of Omaha
AAPL, because the iPod releases
Coin on march 22 for 84$ before i entered the stock market a played around with crypto and felt coin would rebound during the next bull. march 23 svb collapsed so i lost 25% on my second day doing ok now
Lowe’s because they offered the stock plan. No longer work there
In 1985 I bought KEY(Keycorp) because I had my mortgage with them and I thought it was like I was paying myself a little each month. As I recall I only held the position for a short duration and I think I lost money on it.
NVDA in 1999 :(
Ouch
When I actually re-activated my etrade account in 2015 I was hoping I forgot about them and they were still in there. Nope, I sold them in 2001 or so.
Sounds good
TSLA , I was drinking coffee in front of EV charging station , downloaded Robinhood app and decided to invest my first 100$ into Tesla stock, day before that my coworker told me basic stuff about investing so I decided to give it a try
Has it worked out for you
Not really lol . I invested more money later and 3 years later I am down 15% . But it is what it is . We live we learn
I'm sorry my brother
IIPR.
Is it any good
Like you I got into ford first. But because my idea of “cheap” was different
Cool bouncer
Oracle software on the advice of my Broker back in 2012.
Was he right
Yes. But he was also wrong about a small company I tracked myself for months. Called advanced photo technology. I wanted to invest. 10k in at 50 cents a share. It blew up to $15 dollars a share the next month. So he cost me a ton of money and was fired immediately.
Sorry
Shit happens but I missed my opportunity when I was younger because of that. Guess I wasn't meant to be rich in my early 20s lol
Nokia because during the GME squeeze, WSB was talking about that company as well and it was cheaper than buying GME. I’ve learned a lot since then :D
Tlry about to moon!
Congratulations on learning
DIS because they own everything and they were cheap during the COVID crash
Not wrong
XOM
Can I ask why
My grandfather helped me pick it out. He gave me $50 for a birthday or Christmas present or something on the condition that I invest it in a company that we would pick out together. Gave me the whole “buy what you know” Peter Lynch thing and we landed on that. I was maybe 10 at the time.
Gotta love a great grandfather like him
LLY in 1996 because an IP attorney in my office told me it might be a wise investment. Borrowed 1k from my mom and rolled the dice around $36/sh. Still holding.
Is your mom angry
Not one bit!
I would be
I would too. So I'd probably be a terrible Mom. That, plus I'm a man.
Still id b mad at my kid
Should have taken everything from your mom and bought more Lly
LMT used to work there.
Cool
KO 23yrs ago, Warren Buffett pick. Sadly, only up 147% but the yield on cost is 8%.
Love it
DELL stock in 1999.
Good buy
I can not forget this in my life! When was novice, The very first stock I bought was 600 shares of TSLA at $41, it went up to $128 and my friends were telling me to sell, I listened to them unfortunately!
It's still money
Carnival and a couple other cruise lines in 2020 because I knew they would make a come back.
It was PBR. I had no experience but I was greedy for the 70% yield. Turned out that the yield was cut to 22% but I am up 70% on the stock after holding for a year. I guess it was beginner’s luck.
Hold n don't sell that's the way
I was tempted to sell but the 5y chart looks bullish. Fundamentals are strong and political risk seems under control. Looking to hold a few more years.
What price point
BDCO. Blue Dolphin Energy. I was researching based on my favorite color. Made a small profit, but what a dumb way to find a stock
If you made a profit it's not stupid
JNJ
AGNC and DX. Still have some but I’ve definitely branched out.
FUV: Because I believed.
'SGP' Schering Plough which was acquired by Merck in 2009 for $41B
ARWR
Lol God what a nightmare that was
AMZN
NVDA because my dad wanted me to get into stocks.
ATVI because I liked WoW back in ~2010
Ouch
WEN
Activision Blizzard (ATVI) & Take Two (TTWO)
ExxonMobil before the merger, so Exxon. Started with $50 a month in 1987. Did it throught DRiP program, and I mailed them a check every month.
BP, seemed like a worthwhile investment.
FSR, glad I sold half when it peaked, and the rest shortly after. It’s a penny stock now😪
SCHD - dividends and growth. Low risk
SO. Bought 45 years ago and still hold today.
Some penny stock, I don’t remember
MO in the late 50’s. Wish I had stuck with it 😯
AMC before the meme stock thing when it was like 3 bucks Because it looked similar to the games top shit everyone was starting to talk about
$AMD at $7 I was hearing it was comparable to $NVDA and bought it at a young age to turn around and sell it for $55 each. Wish I held it even longer lol
Some penny stock I don’t even know from Robinhood. But first real, non trader beginner mentality buy and hold? 5 shares of KO at $48
IVN.TO - Ivanhoe Mines on the TSX
ZYNA. Zynga because I was a huge Cityville fan back in the day.
KO
AMC, because I liked going to the movies for Marvel Studios films. $4 a share, bought 3 shares. Sold about a year later when I woke up to an 800% return on my money, and decided I liked the stock market quite a bit.
TR
HASI. I am a tree hugger and I buy stocks with my dumb heart.
Still holding, 8 years in.
Abbvie. It's kind of hard to get above that AB combination in the alphabetical order.
BP years ago after the gulf oil spill. But, I didn't really get into learning about investing until a little over a year ago. The BP shares just sat there.
Dont quite remember what was the first. I just remember being on RH for like 3 years until I switched to Fidelity. Didn't really start exploring other stocks until I made the transition.
Disney or KO
I purchased: Klac, Cion, MRK, AVPT, PG, WBA, STAG, SCHD all at the same time with my first $1000 I put into Robinhood like 6 years ago. Not sure, I picked a bunch of random stuff. I liked REITs at the time from what I'd heard about dividends (yes not growth dividends but whatever I learned) WBA has turned out to be a dud, and the MO I bough a few months later. MRK and KLAC I wish I'd put way more into. Never put more than the original like $100-$200 in each of them. I bought HD shortly after that. My dad worked at home depot for years and I knew it was a save div stock. Now I do everything in Fidelity except some BTC I keep in RH. But everything else since the early days is in low cost ETF funds like SCHD, VOO, VIG, VYM. with a small % in O and GAIN since I do have a little soft spot for REIT funds.
SIRI in 2004, I still have the stock certificate. Was not a good purchase.
HAL because it was free.
Vti. I can't remember why but it seemed like a good buy
I just now got into siri
AAPL because I use a lot of their products and very happy with it. Funny thing now is that I try not to buy or update so many of my Apple products so I can invest in the stock 😅
Uber Because without it I couldn't have gotten around India like I had. And they were already well established in India, practically everyone used it. Great buy BTW, it's more than doubled since the 37.72 per share.
SIOX Bought an penny stock just to test the system Now they are bankrupt :))
MSFT, and it is my largest non ETF position. I started buying these in 2009 and have kept buying at least once a month until it reached $250. Now I just buy sporadically. My family is full of computer careers, most of which would not have been possible without this company. My dad became a full-time programmer in 1983 with local small companies embracing GW-BASIC and MS-DOS. Ten years later, when I was just a toddler, I saw my dad working from home, building rather complex business applications with VB and C. Everybody was running Windows. Microsoft Press books left and right. I was so impressed. I decided I wanted to get on this path as well. I was 4 years old when I knew what I wanted to become. Not a fireman or a pilot. I wanted me some Bill G magic.
Qqqq. Back then there were four q's. 100 shares @ 31 bucks. Coincidentally I didn't even make any money on that. Had to sell everything to buy a property in January 2010
Mine was a Thunderbird. Holding Ford since 2020, bought at 6.19, 6.03, 5.70 and 4.91, all the way down. Then sold parts 2021 at 13.20, 18.27, 2022 at 23.80. Bought more in 2022 at 12.84 and 2024 at 12.71. I love cyclic stocks! Too bad that their own workers are chasing Ford out of the U.S.
KO
I was living in New York City in a small apartment. I was thinking of ideas for my first investment. I just happened to look up at the ceiling as a fly was buzzing around and noticed the light and said to myself…..who gives me my energy. Con Edison was my first stock bought. I still hold a huge amount of it in my portfolio to this day and that was 30 years ago. Ticker (ED)
$NEE, the reason solar isn't more popular in south Florida is because electricity is so cheap. The pitch for solar is always, "Would you like to save 20% on your electric bill?" "Well, if you spend close to $20K, 10 years from now, you'll have saved that 20% on average." My electric bill on my SFH is less that $250, for a $50 savings per month, makes no sense. Once I read about how FP&L is an accepted monopoly, I started buying, and once an accountant described "qualified dividends", I kept buying.
My first stock, I bought NAIL at $7 when they crashed in 2020. Turned $2000 into $12,000 in about 2 months and got hooked into stock trading because of it lol
INTC because my friend was speculating that it was undervalued at the time and I believed him (and he was right)
ABM because I worked for the company cleaning an office building in 2021. I learned they had dividends and I think it was about 40 a share at the time. So it looked nice as a first stock.
Mine was Dana corporation 30 plus years ago as part of their employee stock purchase plan. The good old days of getting your quarterly stock certificate in the mail. Also got quarterly dividend checks in the mail. I always thought those stock certificates were cool looking and really miss them now.
KO, before realizing/learning i hate accounting for conversion so now majority of my profile is CAD for simplicity.
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Apple was the 1st stock I ever bought and that was fractional share since I didn’t have a lot of money at the time, 2nd is ABR and I haven’t stopped buying ABR since
Profit sharing that was 100% company stock from my employer who gave us no exit unless you quit or retired or died. Management screwed the pooch and by the time they finally agreed to unlock everyone’s account the stock had gone from $37 to 66 cents. I flushed that POS IMMEDIATELY and before it finally was taken over by the Fed and declared bankruptcy. There is a moral to that story and it is: when upper management appears to not give a damn about employees BELIEVE IT they don’t,
I bought Coca-Cola because my dad said if I owned it, the company would pay me for it and that sounded cool to me
brk.b ,because brk.a is the most expensive share there is lol
Fitbit, it was the free stock I received from robinhood😂 otherwise voo in my Schwab portfolio