Dogs of the Dow

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Welcome to something more with Chris Boyd.

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Chris Boyd is a certified financial planner, practitioner,

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Here's your host, Jay Christopher Boyd.

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Welcome everybody to another episode of something more

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with Chris Boyd.

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I'm Chris Boyd.

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I'm here with members of our team from

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the AMR team at wealth enhancement group.

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Uh, Russ Ball is in the studio with

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me.

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Jeff Perry is in Florida and Brian Regan

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is in Boston.

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So thank you all for being here.

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Uh, our topic today is to discuss the

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dogs of the Dow.

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I've run across this a couple of times

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recently after not having, uh, had exposure to

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the dogs of the Dow for, I don't

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know, it's been, it's been a long time

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since this came across my, my radar, but,

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uh, recently I've had a client who had

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this position as part of their portfolio and,

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um, I've, I've come across an article and

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a couple of things where people were talking

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about the dogs of the Dow.

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So now, uh, typically the, what maybe Brian,

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you want to explain for our listeners, what

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the dogs of the Dow is before we,

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uh, I want to dive into some of

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the, uh, the impact of a defined portfolio,

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but, uh, in a unit investment trust, but

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tell us a little bit about what is

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the dogs of the Dow?

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Sure.

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Uh, thanks for having me today, guys.

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It's been a while.

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It's always fun to do this.

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Um, so the dogs of the Dow is

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you take the, the 10 highest yielding stocks

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in the Dow Jones industrial average, which has

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30 stocks in it, um, and that you

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make that your portfolio for the year.

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Uh, that's, that's essentially what it is.

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The idea is if it has a high

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yield, if it's in a blue chip index,

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like the Dow Jones, um, then, uh, you

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know, that it might be a good indication

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of value.

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Um, so that's, that's the idea.

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Yeah.

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So they're presumably, these are quality companies generally,

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by virtue of being in the Dow Jones

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industrial average.

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And then, um, you're taking the 10 best

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income.

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So people who might be looking for a

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good yield, we can, we're going to talk

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about that.

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Let me come back to this.

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Uh, uh, some of the virtues and merits

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or, or not of this as an investment

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strategy, let's talk about how this is often

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acquired.

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Uh, oftentimes the way people obtain this, it's

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sold to them by a financial advisor who,

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uh, is selling a unit investment trust, a

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unit investment trust is a, uh, a bundle,

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a portfolio that you can buy now it,

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uh, it's an investment product, uh, oftentimes it's

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sold by commission, uh, though not always, but

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generally, um, and.

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Essentially, uh, it doesn't have to be as

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limited as 10 stocks.

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It can be something else, some other theme

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that drives the selection, but it is a

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portfolio that is retained for a specific period

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of time.

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Off, as you mentioned, the dogs of the

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Dow, the theory is often for 12 months.

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Um, the, a unit investment trust often will

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last for about 15 months, sometimes even longer,

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more like around three years.

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So depending on the product you might select,

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um, I generally think there are other products

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in today's world that I would utilize as

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a way to invest.

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Uh, by and large, um, uh, defined portfolio

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is something I'm going to buy in January,

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but there's no, um, Shane, excuse me.

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There's no change in the portfolio in any

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way over the course of the year.

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So there's no window, there's no opportunity for

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assessment or revision.

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Uh, it's either you own the bundle or

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you don't, that's essentially what a defined portfolio

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Um, you could argue, well, isn't that true

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with an ETF or, um, uh, mutual fund.

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And in some instances that may be true,

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but oftentimes there is active management and we

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can come back and talk about that, uh,

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the, the benefits and drawbacks of that.

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But in any case, a defined portfolio, a

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unit investment trust is usually how people acquire

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the dogs of the Dow.

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You could certainly do it yourself with the

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purchase.

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Uh, the question then becomes, are they held

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in equal weight?

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Are they held in cap weight?

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Uh, what's, what's the weighting mechanism you use?

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Is it somehow arranged by yield?

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So these are things you might not know.

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And, um, that's why people would typically acquire

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it and the form of a, a packaged

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product.

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Um, I generally am not a fan of

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unit investment trusts or defined portfolios.

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Anybody else want to weigh in on that

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question right out of the gate?

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Jeff, Brian, what do you think?

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Well, I don't really understand the point of

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a defined portfolio period ever, um, because things

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change.

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I mean, if we just look at the

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dogs of the Dow in 2024, for example,

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uh, Walgreens Boots Alliance was in, uh, was

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in the Dow Jones at the beginning of

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the year and it fell out during the

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year.

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So, you know, just from that mechanism, you

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know, you're not even holding true to your

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investment strategy is, is, is, you know, uh,

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not great as investment strategy, I think this

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is.

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We're not even holding true to it.

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Um, just because we're in a, you know,

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a defined position from, from the very beginning.

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Uh, I believe that you, we should, uh,

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research, research our stocks, but also, uh, before

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we buy them, but also monitor them for,

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for changes in business model, changes in price,

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um, et cetera, et cetera.

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There's lots of things that could, uh, change

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the value proposition of a, of an individual

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stock.

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Well said I I'm in complete agreement.

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Jeff, did you want to add to that

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in any way?

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No, I'm not, I'm not a proponent of

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it.

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It's, uh, the history of the dogs of

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the Dow and that's when you would buy

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those 10 stocks on the first trading day

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of the year with the highest yield and

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keep them, right?

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You don't, you don't take them out.

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If they fall out of the highest 10

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dividends, you keep them.

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So the old, that's right.

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The, the, in this issue though, if, if

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you're having the dogs of the Dow and

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one, the position falls out of the Dow,

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what do you do?

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It's a, uh, is it now you, you

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replace that position or, yeah.

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I mean, I guess you keep it, right.

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I mean, the idea is that you keep

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it the time in the market and that's

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somehow reflecting.

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I mean, it could, it could go out

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of the top 10 dividend payers and stay

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in the Dow because as a price appreciation,

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right, or a dividend decrease, I mean, if

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I'm going to, if I'm going to try

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to find a benefit of it, I like

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things that are, uh, have a little turnover.

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I don't want, I have, I have more

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selling stocks because when you sell a stock,

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it's, uh, you know, it can mean one

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of a few things.

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It could mean that the company has gone

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South.

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Uh, you know, the business model is no

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longer intact.

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The reason why you bought it is no

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longer there.

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Uh, or, you know, maybe it, uh, the

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price appreciated a whole lot and, uh, you're

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selling a company that you really like just

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because it's gotten too expensive.

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Um, you know, there's usually not a lot

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of great reasons to be selling a stock.

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You usually want to be holding it for,

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for a really, really long time and get

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those compounded returns.

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So from that aspect of it, it might

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hold people to a strategy who might otherwise

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have trouble with that.

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I like that idea.

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I don't necessarily love the execution through, uh,

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the strategy of the dogs of the DAO.

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I would argue that, um, the, the place

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for, uh, defined portfolios, unit investment trust is,

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is largely a by-product of a gone

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by era.

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Uh, this is a product that's, you know,

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designed to be, uh, uh, maybe a stockbroker

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sold.

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Uh, you know, it's a product sale, uh,

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where a commission is earned.

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Uh, I just think of that as something

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that, you know, today we want to design

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a portfolio.

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We want to have some ongoing, uh, control

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of that.

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And, uh, we're not just pushing a product

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that, you know, that this would, I think

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is more of that, uh, experience that, um,

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that era of, uh, experience.

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Chris for, uh, for our listeners.

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Can I take a second and just tell

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the listeners who they are right now or

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who they are for 25?

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Sure.

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Good idea.

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Might be helpful.

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So the 10 stocks with the highest dividend

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rate in the Dow are Verizon, Chevron, Amgen,

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Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Coca-Cola, IBM, Cisco,

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McDonald's and Procter and Gamble.

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So, I mean, a lot of names people

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know.

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Um, let's, let's talk about just the, uh,

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the concept of one of the things that

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the dogs of the Dow implies is the,

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uh, investment approach of investing for dividend.

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And, uh, is that meritorious or not?

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Um, it's very common.

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It's very common.

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And there's some attractive features for people who

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particularly who are in maybe own, uh, names,

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stocks, or a fund that they could just

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retain and draw cashflow from.

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And that sounds appealing.

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Uh, but that's not really always the way

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we encourage investors to think.

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I'm going to let Brian tackle this, uh,

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the idea of income investing versus total return

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investing.

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It's not the first time we've talked about

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it, but I think it's worth, uh, revisiting

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as a topic.

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Before I go on my normal speech here

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that you guys are all familiar with.

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I Chris, I thought you said something interesting

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that relates to this.

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He said, commission products are, uh, you know,

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time of a bygone era.

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Uh, but so is dividend investing.

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You know, there was a time probably, probably

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prior to 1950 where the dividend, uh, on

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an index like Dow Jones would almost always

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be higher than a treasury rate, for example.

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stocks are, um, uh, more risky than, than,

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than fixed, uh, you know, uh, treasury treasury

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bond, you know, so they should require a

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higher rate of return.

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Um, and in those days, you know, a

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lot of the industry was based on, uh,

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returning share returning cash to shareholders through, uh,

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dividends.

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Today we do a lot of that through

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share buyback and there's a lot more emphasis

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on, uh, research and development and capital expenditures,

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um, than there might've been prior to that

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time.

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So now the emphasis is on and the

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type of businesses that.

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Comprised the economy.

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There's been some evolution of that as well.

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And that may be part of why, right?

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I mean, to say the least, right.

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Uh, before 1995, we were bricks and mortar

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economy, and now we're a much more of

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a bites and bits economy.

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Uh, and that has, uh, reshaped, uh, a

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lot of the ways that we should be

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thinking about investing.

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Uh, if you look at, uh, margins on

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the S and P 500, for example, from

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that time, we went from 6% in

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1995 to almost 13% today, uh, that

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is indicative of, uh, of software eating the

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world.

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Um, you know, margins on software are much

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greater than, uh, you know, you'll get, um,

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from, from selling, uh, items through, through Walmart

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at a discount.

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So, uh, you know, that's just one example

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of, of how, how the economies change and,

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and how we need to think about that.

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But in addition to that, the reason why

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we don't, you know, we, we buybacks were

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far less common than they are now.

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Uh, buybacks are a way of returning, uh,

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uh, capital to shareholders.

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Uh, that's more tax efficient than dividends.

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And it often gets overlooked, especially when people

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are concentrating on dividend yield.

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I, it doesn't say anything about the buyback

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yield here.

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Uh, part of that is good reason.

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Um, the buyback is, uh, often temporary, um,

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where the dividend is often more consistent, uh,

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but not all the time.

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And that's important, especially when you're looking at,

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uh, some of these very, very high dividend

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paying stocks.

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Uh, sometimes there have very, very high dividend

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yields because the, the dividends going to be

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cut.

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Um, so that, that, you know, that kind

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of leads me into the four things that

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you can do with a company can do

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with its earnings, right?

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Uh, it could pay down debt.

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It can buy back shares.

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It can reinvest in the business or it

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can pay a dividend.

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Uh, and for each, uh, different type of

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business, uh, uh, different part of the maturity

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cycle, uh, different options might be appropriate, right?

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If they have, uh, if it's a new

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growing company, it might be better for them

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to reinvest in the business and get a

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high return on, on capital.

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If it's a more mature business, uh, you

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know, like say Coca-Cola, which is here

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on the, in the dogs of the Dow,

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it might make sense to pay a, pay

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a larger dividend.

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Um, but that's, uh, you know, company specific

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and it doesn't necessarily mean that one is,

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one is better than the other.

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If you have a really highly indebted company,

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uh, that is trading at a very, very

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low valuation because of its prospects of possible

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bankruptcy or lack of funding, and then it

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gets a lot of funding, even if it's

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through the equity market, you might see that

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stock go up because the reason why the

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valuation was depressed was because of the heavy

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debt load.

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So, um, a lot of how we evaluate

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stocks, you know, it's too simple to look

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at the dividend yield and say it's a

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good value.

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Uh, you need to look at the cash

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flows, the growth and what they're doing with

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those cash flows and whether that business model

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is going to continue well into the future

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or if it's, you know, a flash in

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the pan.

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So I think, you know, we, we have

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said over and over again to our listeners

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that as much as sometimes it can be

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attractive to think in terms of buying, uh,

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on the basis of dividends, very often we

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might be taking on risk.

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We don't recognize, um, the quality of the

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company, uh, that has a very high dividend,

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maybe at risk, right?

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There may be added risk there.

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And there may be some concern of the

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future earning capabilities, Brian, and you've talked about

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in many instances with clients, uh, examples of

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a high paying dividend, uh, company, but it's

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funding their dividend through a dilution of share

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value.

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Uh, there can be other considerations that can

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be problematic, right?

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So we often see instances where, uh, yield

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is as much as it can appear to

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be attractive to the investor.

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They actually be a warning sign.

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Sometimes it may not be as appealing as

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it might seem.

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Um, and that can be true with bonds

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as well as stocks that can be more

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risk when it comes to higher yield, um,

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comments.

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Yeah.

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I mean, as you guys know, sometimes I

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struggle with being diplomatic with my speech, uh,

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and I've often called those types of stocks.

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I've often called those types of stocks that

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Chris has mentioned as Ponzi schemes, which may

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or may not be fair, but, um, you

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know, you'll see that they'll issue shares and

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then increase their dividend at the same time,

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which, uh, you know, you're basically, um, you

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know, robbing Peter to pay Paul, uh, which

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doesn't make a whole lot of sense to

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me.

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It's not, it's not very common, uh, but

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it certainly happens.

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Uh, and I, you know, I, if anybody

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wants to contest me on that, I have

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a couple of stocks in mind that I

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don't necessarily, um, you know, aim right now.

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Yeah.

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But even, uh, less nefariously, right?

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Like Verizon is the highest yielding stock on

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this list at 6.82%. Right.

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Uh, we all are well aware of Verizon.

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We're well aware of the brand.

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I'm sure, I'm sure most of us, if

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not all of us pay a bill to

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Verizon.

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Um, so, you know, it's, it's very commonly

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thought of as, um, you know, a, a

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relatively low risk staple, which, you know, I

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think it is.

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If you, if you look at the financial

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statements, you know, the, there's no growth whatsoever.

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Uh, there's not a whole lot of decline

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either.

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Uh, there's, there's marginal decline and there's marginal

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risk, but on the whole, I would say

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it's, um, you know, the revenue growth is

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flat.

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So the revenue growth is flat and we

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get a yield of 6.82%. What's your

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reasonable guess on what your return is going

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to be on this, on this stock, all

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things equal.

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My guess would be 6.82%, right?

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You're not, the company's not growing.

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Um, and you know, you, you, you're getting

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6.82% in the dividend.

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You know, you're only going to get the

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income.

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You're not going to get much price appreciation.

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Now, um, yields could fall and that could

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lead to price appreciation.

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Um, you know, they, they could restructure their

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debt, which they have a whole lot of,

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which is part of the reason why it's

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the press stock.

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Um, they are buying, uh, a competitor, uh,

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that could go well, but it probably won't.

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Um, and I'm not saying that that is

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disparagingly to Verizon.

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Statistically, most of these large acquisitions do not

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work.

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So we have a highly indebted company that's

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getting more into debt by a competitor that's

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already not growing very much.

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Um, you know, to, you're, you're taking a

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good amount of risk to get that 6

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.82%. Now take, um, you know, the S

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&P 500, for example, that's average 14 to

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15% over the last decade, uh, that

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doesn't match up very nicely.

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Uh, and if you think that's an unfair

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comparison, because you might recognize that, you know,

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the S&P 500 might have, uh, things

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in it that aren't necessarily staples, then you

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can look at the high yield bond market,

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which you could probably get close to a

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7% yield in today, maybe, maybe, you

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know, six and a half, something like that

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on average.

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Um, so I can actually go down in

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the capital structure, take less risk, diversify my

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bond portfolio and get a similar yield.

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Um, that is a better prospect to me.

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And that's why, you know, I don't think,

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uh, Verizon, despite its high yield shows, you

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know, significant amounts of quote unquote value, uh,

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which I think a lot of people would,

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would, uh, bucket this as a quote unquote

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value stock.

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Brian, are there any other names in the,

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uh, the dogs of the Dow list that

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you would, um, want to talk about that

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you'd look at and say, oh, well, you

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know, there's things out there.

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Yeah.

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Well, I love consistency and growth as you

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guys know.

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Right.

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So if you look down this list and

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I'll repeat it for everybody, Verizon, Chevron, Amjon,

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Johnson and Johnson, Mark, Coca-Cola, IBM, Cisco,

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McDonald's, and Procter and Gamble.

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Um, that's the 2025 list.

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Do any of those scream to you that

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they're going to have any growth in the

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future?

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To me, they don't.

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Yeah.

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I mean, not a single one.

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Um, you know, Merck's biggest drug is Keytruda.

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Uh, it's one of the best selling drugs

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of all time.

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It's a cancer and, uh, it's a cancer

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therapy.

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Uh, but my understanding is part of the

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reason why Merck is trading down is that

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the patent is coming up relatively soon, which

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means that you will get, uh, and I

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also think it's part of the, on the

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Medicare list and the negotiated prices.

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Um, so, you know, for those two reasons,

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the, the optimism around that drug might not

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be where you might imagine it to be

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for one of the best selling drugs of

533
00:19:33,210 --> 00:19:33,730
all time.

534
00:19:34,610 --> 00:19:36,950
Uh, Chevron is an oil and gas major.

535
00:19:37,130 --> 00:19:38,810
It's very, very highly cyclical.

536
00:19:38,950 --> 00:19:40,410
It might grow for a little bit, but

537
00:19:40,410 --> 00:19:42,030
we are, we know that cyclical is not

538
00:19:42,030 --> 00:19:42,450
consistent.

539
00:19:42,970 --> 00:19:44,290
Um, so it's not going to get up,

540
00:19:44,350 --> 00:19:47,130
you know, a nice valuation for that reason.

541
00:19:47,130 --> 00:19:50,930
Um, you know, McDonald's is, it's interesting.

542
00:19:51,230 --> 00:19:52,910
Uh, there's been times when I've thought about

543
00:19:52,910 --> 00:19:53,750
pulling the trigger there.

544
00:19:53,870 --> 00:19:55,730
Uh, there's certainly, it's certainly consistent.

545
00:19:56,750 --> 00:20:00,850
Um, you know, they've had some interesting history

546
00:20:00,850 --> 00:20:03,370
with their CEOs, uh, too much turnover for,

547
00:20:03,470 --> 00:20:05,710
for my, for my taste, uh, which is

548
00:20:05,710 --> 00:20:06,890
part of the reason why we stayed away.

549
00:20:07,510 --> 00:20:10,090
Procter and Gamble, again, very consistent, but you're

550
00:20:10,090 --> 00:20:11,970
probably only looking at three, 4% growth

551
00:20:11,970 --> 00:20:13,810
trades at over 30 times earnings.

552
00:20:13,890 --> 00:20:16,390
The last time I checked, I'm not, through

553
00:20:16,390 --> 00:20:22,250
some, uh, uh, revisions and, uh, they've had

554
00:20:22,250 --> 00:20:22,950
some iterations.

555
00:20:22,970 --> 00:20:25,030
Anything, anything interesting happening there?

556
00:20:25,410 --> 00:20:27,090
I mean, it's been a while since I

557
00:20:27,090 --> 00:20:29,830
did a deep dive on IBM, but to

558
00:20:29,830 --> 00:20:32,270
me, they should be, they should be able

559
00:20:32,270 --> 00:20:33,790
to come up with something, you know, that,

560
00:20:33,790 --> 00:20:36,010
that could be interesting because if you think

561
00:20:36,010 --> 00:20:38,490
about we're in the age of artificial intelligence

562
00:20:38,490 --> 00:20:39,110
here, right.

563
00:20:39,210 --> 00:20:40,410
And who came up with Watson?

564
00:20:40,590 --> 00:20:42,510
Does anybody ever watch Watson on?

565
00:20:42,510 --> 00:20:42,790
Yeah.

566
00:20:43,810 --> 00:20:46,190
Um, I, I was always amazed at how

567
00:20:46,190 --> 00:20:48,750
that kind of disappeared into, you know, nothingness

568
00:20:48,750 --> 00:20:51,270
and never really found any, um, pretty common

569
00:20:51,270 --> 00:20:53,990
in the business, in the business cycle, development

570
00:20:53,990 --> 00:20:54,570
cycle, right?

571
00:20:54,590 --> 00:20:56,650
The first to have the idea isn't usually

572
00:20:56,650 --> 00:20:58,030
the one who makes all the money.

573
00:20:58,410 --> 00:20:58,830
Right.

574
00:20:58,910 --> 00:21:00,490
You know, it's like that Gartner hype cycle

575
00:21:00,490 --> 00:21:00,770
thing.

576
00:21:00,850 --> 00:21:01,990
Have you ever seen that chart?

577
00:21:02,090 --> 00:21:04,250
So it's pretty interesting, interesting chart.

578
00:21:04,310 --> 00:21:06,070
I like to lay it over the.com

579
00:21:06,070 --> 00:21:06,330
boom.

580
00:21:06,430 --> 00:21:07,930
I think that's, you know, fascinating.

581
00:21:08,330 --> 00:21:10,170
I don't get much activity on my MySpace

582
00:21:10,170 --> 00:21:11,050
account anymore.

583
00:21:11,190 --> 00:21:11,590
I don't know.

584
00:21:12,930 --> 00:21:13,350
Right.

585
00:21:14,170 --> 00:21:15,310
I mean, there's a lot of things like

586
00:21:15,310 --> 00:21:15,530
that.

587
00:21:17,170 --> 00:21:19,250
And now, you know, Cisco, one of the

588
00:21:19,250 --> 00:21:20,850
interesting things about this, and I was actually

589
00:21:20,850 --> 00:21:24,050
talking about this, um, over this past weekend

590
00:21:24,050 --> 00:21:27,170
with somebody, uh, you know, I was basically

591
00:21:27,170 --> 00:21:28,630
asked, like, can a stock go down because

592
00:21:28,630 --> 00:21:29,510
it's priced too high?

593
00:21:29,510 --> 00:21:30,970
And I go, do you know that Cisco

594
00:21:30,970 --> 00:21:33,230
has never made its 2000 high again in

595
00:21:33,230 --> 00:21:35,130
the last 25 years, despite it's, you know,

596
00:21:35,130 --> 00:21:37,390
continue to grow, uh, and be a viable

597
00:21:37,390 --> 00:21:38,150
organization.

598
00:21:39,190 --> 00:21:41,670
So, um, there's nothing here that I'm excited

599
00:21:41,670 --> 00:21:41,990
about.

600
00:21:41,990 --> 00:21:43,870
Uh, there's nothing here that I own anymore,

601
00:21:43,990 --> 00:21:44,910
you know, for disclosure.

602
00:21:45,350 --> 00:21:47,890
Um, so, you know, take that for what

603
00:21:47,890 --> 00:21:49,810
it is, but you know, the dogs of

604
00:21:49,810 --> 00:21:53,590
the Dow, uh, in 2024, if I'm looking

605
00:21:53,590 --> 00:21:56,250
at this article from, uh, investing.com only

606
00:21:56,250 --> 00:21:58,750
did 2.5, 3% in 2024.

607
00:21:59,950 --> 00:22:01,870
Um, I don't know, that's not too impressive

608
00:22:01,870 --> 00:22:03,210
in a, in a year with the S

609
00:22:03,210 --> 00:22:04,730
&P 500 to 25%.

610
00:22:04,730 --> 00:22:07,330
So, um, you know, that's kind of my

611
00:22:07,330 --> 00:22:08,530
take on, on these stocks.

612
00:22:08,570 --> 00:22:10,930
They're, they're kind of old, they're mature.

613
00:22:10,930 --> 00:22:14,290
Um, they might, uh, they're, they're cyclical.

614
00:22:14,710 --> 00:22:18,090
Um, you know, they might surprise you, but,

615
00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:21,270
uh, I, I wouldn't, they don't, they don't

616
00:22:21,270 --> 00:22:23,170
check my boxes of consistency and growth.

617
00:22:23,690 --> 00:22:26,150
I don't disagree with anything Brian's saying.

618
00:22:26,410 --> 00:22:28,890
Um, but I do, I, I do have

619
00:22:28,890 --> 00:22:31,050
a question for Chris and Brian here.

620
00:22:31,050 --> 00:22:32,910
So I think one of the reasons that,

621
00:22:32,970 --> 00:22:35,510
uh, the dogs of the Dow maybe less

622
00:22:35,510 --> 00:22:37,210
than used to be, but is attractive to

623
00:22:37,210 --> 00:22:40,050
people because they want to own a significant

624
00:22:40,050 --> 00:22:43,750
number of investors, savers want to own individual

625
00:22:43,750 --> 00:22:44,150
stocks.

626
00:22:44,150 --> 00:22:46,170
They'd like owning individual stocks.

627
00:22:46,710 --> 00:22:49,350
Um, and how can they do that?

628
00:22:49,410 --> 00:22:51,910
Are they just going to randomly pick companies

629
00:22:51,910 --> 00:22:53,290
that they know and do a little research

630
00:22:53,290 --> 00:22:54,170
and buy them individually?

631
00:22:54,350 --> 00:22:56,030
This is a strategy that at least has

632
00:22:56,030 --> 00:22:57,170
a theory behind it.

633
00:22:57,410 --> 00:23:01,470
It's in companies that are, you know, known

634
00:23:01,470 --> 00:23:03,790
and there's information available about it, I think

635
00:23:03,790 --> 00:23:06,190
that's the attractiveness to some people to maybe

636
00:23:06,190 --> 00:23:09,230
employee, uh, dogs of the Dow strategy.

637
00:23:09,230 --> 00:23:11,830
And they, because they want to own individual

638
00:23:11,830 --> 00:23:13,330
stocks and they really don't know how to

639
00:23:13,330 --> 00:23:13,950
approach it.

640
00:23:14,450 --> 00:23:17,030
Um, if you have a client framework, if

641
00:23:17,030 --> 00:23:18,410
you have a client that comes in and

642
00:23:18,410 --> 00:23:20,810
says, I'd love, maybe they have a portfolio

643
00:23:20,810 --> 00:23:23,610
that they're bringing in and it's individual stocks

644
00:23:23,610 --> 00:23:25,490
and they want to own them, what's, what's

645
00:23:25,490 --> 00:23:28,290
the best advice for people who, you know,

646
00:23:28,310 --> 00:23:30,030
maybe have the assets that they can afford

647
00:23:30,030 --> 00:23:31,930
the risk of owning some individual stocks.

648
00:23:31,990 --> 00:23:33,410
How, how should they approach that?

649
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:37,140
Do you want to take that Chris?

650
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,000
You want me to run with it?

651
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:38,820
Yeah, go for it.

652
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:39,540
I'm going to let you.

653
00:23:41,460 --> 00:23:43,900
Oh, well, you know, I, I, uh, we

654
00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:45,240
have a portfolio of stocks.

655
00:23:45,340 --> 00:23:47,620
It's, it's between, uh, you know, 30 and

656
00:23:47,620 --> 00:23:48,320
40 stocks.

657
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,080
It rarely ever gets as high as 40

658
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:51,980
stocks because we like to keep it concentrated.

659
00:23:52,220 --> 00:23:53,080
Uh, why do we like to keep it

660
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:53,440
concentrated?

661
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,320
There's not a ton of stocks that, uh,

662
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:55,740
we love.

663
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,920
Um, and we want to have good allocations

664
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,100
to, to the stocks that, uh, we really

665
00:24:01,100 --> 00:24:01,400
like.

666
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,380
So, you know, I think my, my first

667
00:24:04,380 --> 00:24:07,020
thought on this, uh, you know, find somebody

668
00:24:07,020 --> 00:24:10,000
that you trust, uh, to, uh, invest, uh,

669
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,140
logically in a, in a more concentrated portfolio,

670
00:24:12,140 --> 00:24:13,820
because if you're not going to do a

671
00:24:13,820 --> 00:24:15,640
more concentrated portfolio, you might as well, why

672
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,180
do we diversify through it, through an ETF?

673
00:24:17,340 --> 00:24:18,260
That's, that's my position.

674
00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:19,420
You're probably not going to perform.

675
00:24:19,780 --> 00:24:21,080
Uh, one of the things about the dogs

676
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,680
and the Dow is it's concentrated, right?

677
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,000
It's only, it's only 10 stocks.

678
00:24:24,060 --> 00:24:25,320
I mean, it's not that it's not the

679
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,600
10 stocks that I would pick, but I

680
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,240
would say it checks those boxes.

681
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,080
Um, the second thing that you need to

682
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,140
do when you're looking at, uh, individual stocks

683
00:24:33,140 --> 00:24:34,480
is make sure you're diversified.

684
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,300
I could argue that the dogs, the Dow

685
00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:38,900
isn't extremely widely diversified.

686
00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:40,460
It's diversified enough.

687
00:24:40,660 --> 00:24:42,420
You know, there's drug stocks, there's some tech

688
00:24:42,420 --> 00:24:44,560
stocks, but they're kind of old, old tech

689
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:44,880
stocks.

690
00:24:45,420 --> 00:24:47,240
Uh, there's a material stock.

691
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:48,940
Um, you know, it's, it's fine.

692
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,480
Kind of a enough, enough, uh, there's consumer

693
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:52,840
staples.

694
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,300
There's kind of enough, uh, diversification.

695
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,940
Um, what, what the dogs, the Dow is

696
00:24:58,940 --> 00:25:00,280
missing is growth, right?

697
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,100
We, we want to find, if I'm going

698
00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:04,700
to pick on one thing that I really

699
00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:06,340
think we want to find business models that

700
00:25:06,340 --> 00:25:08,240
are going to continue to grow well into

701
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:08,700
the future.

702
00:25:09,060 --> 00:25:13,180
Um, and that's hard to find.

703
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,100
It's really easy to find companies that have

704
00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:15,700
grown recently.

705
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,260
Uh, they get a lot of play on

706
00:25:17,260 --> 00:25:17,620
CNBC.

707
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,840
Usually their stock market, uh, stock prices are

708
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:20,740
doing really, really well.

709
00:25:21,260 --> 00:25:23,440
Um, and there can be very tempting to

710
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:23,740
buy.

711
00:25:24,020 --> 00:25:26,400
Uh, it's really hard to find stocks that,

712
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,820
uh, are going to grow consistently for, for

713
00:25:28,820 --> 00:25:29,340
a long time.

714
00:25:29,340 --> 00:25:31,000
And sometimes, and this is a good thing.

715
00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:33,140
Sometimes they're in very boring sectors.

716
00:25:33,460 --> 00:25:35,060
Sometimes they're in exciting sectors.

717
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:36,680
And the good thing about this is that's

718
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,140
a great way that we can get diversification.

719
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,100
I will take a boring sector.

720
00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:41,560
That's getting some good growth.

721
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:42,640
I'll give you an example.

722
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,320
I know consumer staples that are growing at,

723
00:25:45,340 --> 00:25:46,700
uh, 8% a year.

724
00:25:47,380 --> 00:25:50,320
Um, they're expensive, but, uh, you know, that's,

725
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,300
that's not bad growth for a consumer staple,

726
00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:52,600
right?

727
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,160
It's not a hundred percent growth.

728
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:55,380
It's not 50% growth.

729
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,700
Um, but it's, it's, it's fairly good.

730
00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:01,400
Uh, you know, there are banks are reporting

731
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:01,900
this week.

732
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:03,840
They had blowout earnings.

733
00:26:04,220 --> 00:26:06,760
They don't always have blowout earnings, but some

734
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:07,720
of the best banks do.

735
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,020
I typically do do very well.

736
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,480
And what do I look for there to

737
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:12,140
get consistency?

738
00:26:12,660 --> 00:26:14,980
Uh, I look for a diversified bank with

739
00:26:14,980 --> 00:26:15,600
a good manager.

740
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,240
So what do I mean by diversified?

741
00:26:17,340 --> 00:26:19,260
Usually they have custody, they have investment management,

742
00:26:19,340 --> 00:26:20,320
they have investment banking.

743
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,940
Um, and they have, uh, you know, investment

744
00:26:22,940 --> 00:26:24,840
banking can have sales and trading and can

745
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,000
have, um, you know, uh, uh, advisory businesses,

746
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,740
investment manager, and then it has conventional banking

747
00:26:30,740 --> 00:26:31,120
as well.

748
00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:33,320
So, um, those are the four things I'm

749
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:33,940
looking for.

750
00:26:34,180 --> 00:26:35,800
Uh, not, not every bank has that.

751
00:26:35,860 --> 00:26:38,140
For example, Goldman Sachs is very heavily indexed

752
00:26:38,140 --> 00:26:39,280
towards investment banking.

753
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,760
So, so they can be more cyclical.

754
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,660
Uh, JP Morgan has, you know, all four,

755
00:26:43,940 --> 00:26:45,580
all four categories that I'm looking for.

756
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,340
Um, but they're also growing.

757
00:26:48,420 --> 00:26:50,380
I mean, their, their, their growth, their earnings

758
00:26:50,380 --> 00:26:51,960
increased 50% year over year.

759
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,440
They've had the same CEO for quite a

760
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:54,900
long time.

761
00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:58,120
Um, you know, that's consistency, consistency with growth.

762
00:26:58,260 --> 00:27:00,240
You might find it in a place like

763
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,260
the utility sector, which, you know, typically is

764
00:27:03,260 --> 00:27:04,800
the head one to 2% growth, but

765
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,320
now is expected to have seven to 8

766
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,400
% annualized growth for the foreseeable future.

767
00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:10,600
You know, seven to 8% growth.

768
00:27:10,740 --> 00:27:13,520
Again, it's not, it's not mind boggling growth,

769
00:27:13,580 --> 00:27:15,280
but it's 4% higher than GDP.

770
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,460
Um, it's 3% higher than nominal GDP.

771
00:27:18,860 --> 00:27:20,200
Uh, so it's not bad.

772
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,820
And if you can get those at a

773
00:27:21,820 --> 00:27:24,560
decent price, uh, plus, you know, a decent

774
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,580
dividend yields, you, you, you could reasonably expect,

775
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,040
you know, 10% on that, on a

776
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:30,780
company like that.

777
00:27:31,340 --> 00:27:33,520
Um, then there can be like staples, like

778
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,840
a Costco or, um, which again, unexciting, but

779
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,480
they can raise prices on their membership fees,

780
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,320
uh, which is cashflow to the bottom line.

781
00:27:42,780 --> 00:27:45,380
Um, and you know, they have over a

782
00:27:45,380 --> 00:27:46,780
90% retention rate.

783
00:27:46,860 --> 00:27:49,160
So there's things like that, that are consistent,

784
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,940
that have steady growth, that are in a

785
00:27:51,940 --> 00:27:54,080
wide variety of sectors that have proven business

786
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,440
models, um, that you can have a fair

787
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,240
amount of confidence that are, is going to

788
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,120
be, um, consistent for, uh, the foreseeable future.

789
00:28:02,060 --> 00:28:04,100
One of the things I wanted to include

790
00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:07,620
in this conversation, um, is something that I

791
00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:10,000
know it's not the way, uh, Brian thinks

792
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:16,000
about, uh, investing, but it we'd talk about,

793
00:28:16,020 --> 00:28:19,560
uh, uh, investing, we'd talk about, uh, style

794
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:24,360
boxes and, uh, growth and value and this

795
00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:29,480
notion of, um, uh, historically, you know, you'd

796
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,600
have this battle between growth and value and,

797
00:28:32,740 --> 00:28:35,320
you know, alternate between the two.

798
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,880
And we've had this long run where growth

799
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,120
companies generally have done better.

800
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,940
Um, but you know, the dogs, the Dow

801
00:28:42,940 --> 00:28:45,180
represents more of that value end of the

802
00:28:45,180 --> 00:28:45,580
spectrum.

803
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,460
Um, but, uh, you know, I, I sometimes,

804
00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:51,240
uh, you know, I know the way people

805
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,860
think about value today is different.

806
00:28:53,860 --> 00:28:55,760
It's not necessarily the way we used to

807
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:56,760
talk about it in the past.

808
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,860
When you think about utilities and, um, you'd

809
00:28:59,860 --> 00:29:03,420
think about, uh, dividend payers and, and things

810
00:29:03,420 --> 00:29:03,960
like that.

811
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,440
Um, and the way we talk about growth

812
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,600
is not necessarily the same, you know, I

813
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,720
perhaps it's more granular, it's more nuanced.

814
00:29:12,140 --> 00:29:17,680
It's, uh, it's not necessarily industry oriented, uh,

815
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,340
you know, as much, uh, as it is

816
00:29:19,340 --> 00:29:23,040
company, uh, specific, but, um, Brian, uh, you

817
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,080
know, I, I'll give you a chance to,

818
00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:26,840
to talk about that, but I, I do

819
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,460
think that, you know, investors still sometimes think

820
00:29:29,460 --> 00:29:31,340
about the notion of, you know, will there

821
00:29:31,340 --> 00:29:34,880
be a, a cyclical, you know, element of

822
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,180
the way the economy moves and whether industries

823
00:29:38,180 --> 00:29:41,200
will be benefited by different, you know, industry

824
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,040
impact in the, in the economic cycle and,

825
00:29:44,180 --> 00:29:47,520
um, growth and value kind of feeds into

826
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,340
that mindset, um, somewhat.

827
00:29:51,060 --> 00:29:53,340
Uh, do you want to talk at all

828
00:29:53,340 --> 00:29:56,880
about that, uh, notion of, uh, how investors

829
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:01,860
might, uh, maybe either correctly or incorrectly think

830
00:30:01,860 --> 00:30:03,580
about growth and value and how it should

831
00:30:03,580 --> 00:30:05,780
be represented in their portfolio?

832
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,480
Yeah, I think, um, I think it's a

833
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:12,820
big mistake to spend a lot of time

834
00:30:12,820 --> 00:30:15,140
thinking about the, the, the style boxes and

835
00:30:15,140 --> 00:30:17,480
what, especially when you're buying individual stocks, maybe

836
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,120
not necessarily on an ETF mutual funds, um,

837
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,440
allocation, it might help you get diversified, uh,

838
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:22,980
in a way.

839
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,740
Um, you know, if you're doing it from

840
00:30:24,740 --> 00:30:27,320
that perspective, but if you're looking for individual

841
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:28,980
stocks, as far as I can tell, and

842
00:30:28,980 --> 00:30:30,600
you correct me if I'm wrong, but the

843
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,020
biggest methodology used to determine whether a stock

844
00:30:33,020 --> 00:30:36,240
is growth or value is the price to

845
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:36,840
earnings ratio.

846
00:30:38,460 --> 00:30:40,140
Um, would you agree with that?

847
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:41,060
I think that's true.

848
00:30:41,660 --> 00:30:43,000
I think that's true for the most part.

849
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,660
Um, and I don't like the price earnings

850
00:30:45,660 --> 00:30:46,000
ratio.

851
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,880
Uh, so here's, here's why I don't like

852
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:49,680
the price earnings ratio.

853
00:30:49,740 --> 00:30:52,240
It only takes into account one year of,

854
00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:52,880
of earnings.

855
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,100
Uh, and it only takes into account the

856
00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:55,560
current price.

857
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,900
So, uh, if you have a trailing PE

858
00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:00,120
ratio, it says, you know, what's the price

859
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:01,840
today versus the earnings that they made in

860
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,860
the prior 12 months, if you're looking at

861
00:31:03,860 --> 00:31:05,620
the forward earnings ratio, you're saying what's the

862
00:31:05,620 --> 00:31:08,560
price today, uh, versus the earnings, um, that

863
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,120
are expected over the next 12 months.

864
00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:14,300
So there's, there's some obvious problems with this,

865
00:31:14,380 --> 00:31:14,540
right?

866
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,100
We can, a company might've had a great

867
00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:22,080
2024, uh, and they, they would have a

868
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,220
very, you know, relatively low PE ratio because

869
00:31:25,220 --> 00:31:26,180
they had a great 2024.

870
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,480
I mean, the market might be saying, Hey,

871
00:31:28,540 --> 00:31:30,240
it was a one-time thing, right?

872
00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:31,900
That it was a commodity cycle.

873
00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:33,680
For example, you see this sometimes with like

874
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:34,260
steel companies.

875
00:31:34,420 --> 00:31:35,880
One time I remember I saw us steel

876
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,240
had a PE ratio of one.

877
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,340
Um, why did that have a PE ratio

878
00:31:39,340 --> 00:31:39,640
of one?

879
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,120
Because it was expected to lose money for

880
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,020
the foreseeable future.

881
00:31:42,620 --> 00:31:45,120
Um, that's not, that's not value to me.

882
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,420
Uh, that's a, that's a dying organization.

883
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,100
Um, and that would be bucketed as, as

884
00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:50,540
value.

885
00:31:50,540 --> 00:31:53,060
Uh, and to me, value is what you

886
00:31:53,060 --> 00:31:54,880
get and price is what you pay.

887
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,360
Um, that'll, that'll adage and, you know, growth

888
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,100
needs to be considered in that formula.

889
00:32:00,340 --> 00:32:03,580
So, um, you know, one of the recent

890
00:32:03,580 --> 00:32:06,180
changes that we made in our discretionary portfolios

891
00:32:06,180 --> 00:32:08,320
is we sold Verizon, which is on the,

892
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:09,280
in the dogs of the Dow.

893
00:32:09,940 --> 00:32:11,360
Uh, and we bought Uber.

894
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,520
Uh, and if we're going to look at

895
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,340
expected return, um, we already talked about how

896
00:32:18,340 --> 00:32:19,400
Verizon is expected.

897
00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:20,300
Let's call it 7%.

898
00:32:20,300 --> 00:32:21,140
Let's just round up.

899
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:22,740
They're expected to have 7% growth.

900
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,760
Uh, you know, Uber is growing, you know,

901
00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:31,800
historically the last couple quarters between the 15

902
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,020
and 20% range on, on revenue, uh,

903
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,040
and they're, they're just became profitable and they're,

904
00:32:39,060 --> 00:32:42,300
they're, you know, clocking some, some serious revenue

905
00:32:42,300 --> 00:32:42,680
growth.

906
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,640
The numbers are in the thousands, so it's

907
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:45,480
not even worth quoting.

908
00:32:45,980 --> 00:32:48,460
Um, and the PE ratio is around 30.

909
00:32:49,940 --> 00:32:52,240
So that you have a question of, okay.

910
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,000
On the face of it, it, you know,

911
00:32:55,140 --> 00:32:56,140
Uber doesn't pay a dividend.

912
00:32:56,540 --> 00:32:59,240
Uh, they did, they did start a buyback.

913
00:32:59,340 --> 00:33:00,160
So if you're just going to look at

914
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,880
that metric, you're going to say Uber is

915
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,640
not very, um, it's not a good value

916
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,780
versus Verizon, but it basically, if you look

917
00:33:06,780 --> 00:33:09,580
at any other metric, um, including growth, including,

918
00:33:09,660 --> 00:33:12,480
you know, uh, expected future cash flows, uh,

919
00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:14,760
it's, it's a much better value, um, than

920
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:15,040
Verizon.

921
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,940
At least in my opinion, I would expect

922
00:33:16,940 --> 00:33:20,220
a company growing at, uh, you know, close

923
00:33:20,220 --> 00:33:21,860
to a PEG ratio of one, let's call

924
00:33:21,860 --> 00:33:24,680
it, or, or some metrics, you know, PEG

925
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,320
ratio well below one, um, would, uh, would

926
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,180
have an expected return much greater than, uh,

927
00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:33,220
you know, the dividend yield of Verizon.

928
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,200
And, you know, that's, that's what we're hoping

929
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:36,500
for.

930
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,840
And ultimately I think that stocks do reach

931
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:40,280
their value.

932
00:33:40,340 --> 00:33:43,060
I think the price comes to, um, close

933
00:33:43,060 --> 00:33:44,820
to what you get in the long term,

934
00:33:44,860 --> 00:33:46,400
not necessarily in the short term, but in

935
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:47,480
the long term, I think that's true.

936
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:49,820
So, you know, that's a good example of

937
00:33:49,820 --> 00:33:51,580
how I think Uber is a better value,

938
00:33:51,740 --> 00:33:53,660
even though it's a quote unquote growth stock

939
00:33:53,660 --> 00:33:57,640
than maybe the conventional company Verizon, which is

940
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,320
probably bucketed as a, as a value stock.

941
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:01,760
Thanks.

942
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,660
I want to take a moment to just

943
00:34:04,660 --> 00:34:08,659
mention for compliance, uh, mention of specific stocks

944
00:34:08,659 --> 00:34:10,920
is not a recommendation or offer.

945
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,080
Individual investors should do their own due diligence

946
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:18,719
to determine opportunities for, for their own circumstances

947
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,400
and, uh, always consult your advisor, or if

948
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,179
you need help with that, you can certainly

949
00:34:24,179 --> 00:34:25,020
reach out to us.

950
00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:28,219
So, uh, this was a good conversation.

951
00:34:28,219 --> 00:34:29,060
Thank you guys.

952
00:34:29,139 --> 00:34:29,900
I appreciate it.

953
00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:32,300
And, uh, anything to add, anybody want to

954
00:34:32,300 --> 00:34:34,900
add any additional thoughts before we wind down?

955
00:34:36,620 --> 00:34:37,760
No, thank you, Brian.

956
00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:38,040
Great.

957
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,219
I just wanted to tag on at the

958
00:34:40,219 --> 00:34:40,480
end.

959
00:34:41,460 --> 00:34:43,139
Um, you know, I, I did a brief

960
00:34:43,139 --> 00:34:45,820
synopsis on, uh, on Uber and Verizon in

961
00:34:45,820 --> 00:34:47,620
there, but one of the things I think

962
00:34:47,620 --> 00:34:50,880
is important is the longevity of these companies,

963
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:51,120
right?

964
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:52,880
We, we want consistency with that growth.

965
00:34:52,980 --> 00:34:55,159
We've established that Uber has significantly more growth,

966
00:34:55,260 --> 00:34:56,860
but do I think it's going to last

967
00:34:56,860 --> 00:34:57,780
longer than Verizon?

968
00:34:57,860 --> 00:35:00,080
And this is why Uber is trading so

969
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:00,820
inexpensively.

970
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,740
There is a big debate, uh, about what

971
00:35:03,740 --> 00:35:05,880
is going to happen when automated cars come

972
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:06,040
in.

973
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,340
I, I think it's a very fair and

974
00:35:08,340 --> 00:35:08,860
healthy debate.

975
00:35:09,180 --> 00:35:11,720
Um, what, what I, what my position is

976
00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:12,720
probably going to be is they're going to

977
00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:14,680
make a lot of, uh, continued agreements with

978
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,320
companies that they've made with Waymo, with Waymo.

979
00:35:17,420 --> 00:35:18,980
They basically said, you can have access to

980
00:35:18,980 --> 00:35:19,520
our platform.

981
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:20,780
If we can have access to your cars,

982
00:35:20,980 --> 00:35:22,160
they have a partnership.

983
00:35:22,340 --> 00:35:24,040
I think that's going to continue with most

984
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,820
autonomous driving, um, which I think is an

985
00:35:25,820 --> 00:35:26,620
exciting opportunity.

986
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:27,040
Why?

987
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:28,180
Cause they have the network effects.

988
00:35:28,220 --> 00:35:29,380
They have the people who are already on

989
00:35:29,380 --> 00:35:29,700
the app.

990
00:35:30,180 --> 00:35:34,040
Why try to recreate that, um, community when

991
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:35,320
it's already there, when you can just go

992
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,400
into a partnership with Uber.

993
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:37,840
So that's my position, right?

994
00:35:37,860 --> 00:35:39,080
So that's why you have to think about

995
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,700
the business model in the longterm.

996
00:35:41,140 --> 00:35:43,960
Now, Verizon, it might seem like, you know,

997
00:35:43,980 --> 00:35:46,040
they have very few competitors, but they have

998
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,180
two very big competitors in AT&T and

999
00:35:48,180 --> 00:35:51,920
T-Mobile, um, along with some, some smaller

1000
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:52,400
competitors.

1001
00:35:52,980 --> 00:35:55,780
Um, in addition to that, you know, goodbye

1002
00:35:55,780 --> 00:35:57,520
to, uh, linear TV.

1003
00:35:57,620 --> 00:35:59,380
That's not even a business that they're in

1004
00:35:59,380 --> 00:35:59,700
anymore.

1005
00:36:00,140 --> 00:36:02,920
Um, and, uh, hello to Starlink.

1006
00:36:03,260 --> 00:36:05,100
Uh, you know, I don't think that gets

1007
00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:08,080
a lot of, uh, talk yet.

1008
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,540
Uh, but you know, reasonably this is providing

1009
00:36:11,540 --> 00:36:13,320
internet access to places that don't have internet

1010
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:13,780
access.

1011
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,560
Um, you know, satellite internet hasn't been reliable

1012
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,140
that reliable in the past.

1013
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:24,660
Uh, but I, I, I have reason to

1014
00:36:24,660 --> 00:36:26,100
believe that that could change.

1015
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,780
I mean, just like everything, things tend to

1016
00:36:27,780 --> 00:36:29,020
get better with time.

1017
00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:32,060
So, um, you know, we get those two

1018
00:36:32,060 --> 00:36:34,040
big competitors and they obviously have, they have

1019
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:34,580
more competitors.

1020
00:36:34,580 --> 00:36:36,780
They have some businesses that are dying.

1021
00:36:36,980 --> 00:36:38,240
Um, they have a lot of debt.

1022
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:39,840
Uh, you know, these are, these are all

1023
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,580
things to consider about the longevity of, of

1024
00:36:41,580 --> 00:36:42,340
that business model.

1025
00:36:42,540 --> 00:36:44,080
And I'm not saying that Verizon is going

1026
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:45,740
to go away anytime soon or anything like

1027
00:36:45,740 --> 00:36:45,980
that.

1028
00:36:45,980 --> 00:36:48,040
I'm just saying if you're going to compare,

1029
00:36:48,260 --> 00:36:50,620
you know, the upstart versus the incumbent, um,

1030
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,060
which in this case we kind of are,

1031
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,140
I think it's a, it's a fair conversation

1032
00:36:54,140 --> 00:36:56,500
or fair, uh, thought experiment to have.

1033
00:36:57,700 --> 00:36:58,080
Good stuff.

1034
00:36:58,740 --> 00:37:00,160
Brian, it's been fun having you on.

1035
00:37:00,260 --> 00:37:01,540
Thanks for joining us today.

1036
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:02,900
Thanks for having me guys.

1037
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,180
I really, I really enjoy it.

1038
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,760
Before we wrap up, I wanted to, uh,

1039
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,620
wish my mom a happy birthday and, uh,

1040
00:37:09,620 --> 00:37:11,400
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on a complete analysis of all facts and

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circumstances.

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The information given on this program is general

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financial comments and cannot be relied upon as

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pertaining to your specific situation.

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Wealth Enhancement Group cannot guarantee that using the

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information from this show will generate profits or

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ensure freedom from loss.

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Listeners should consult their own financial advisors or

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conduct their own due diligence before making any

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financial decisions.