You can only buy one stock. What is it?

[dualstow]

Another good stock would be Aqua America (WTR).

Not exactly the same, but one of my best holdings is AWR, American Water Resources.
Yours has a better ticker. :-)

[dualstow]

I should add, it sounds rather like a slaughterhouse or fish de-boning facility.

Wow, that's a disturbing article, PointedStick.

[rhymenocerous]

In the future it seems like the majority of people will buy things over the internet, so I'm going to say FedEx.

[dualstow]

I even buy my internet over the internet.

I wonder if Greg's answer to the thread's question is Tesla. 

[clacy]

I guess it would depend on the time frame.  If it's "the rest of my life", I would say Berkshire as it's widely diversified.  If it is for the next decade or maybe two, I would definitely say XOM. 

[dualstow]

Ha! That's hilarious! And clever.

[dualstow]

Do we need a separate thread about the terrible beauty that is Amazon dot com?
Bezos just bought the Washington Post.

[MediumTex]

Do we need a separate thread about the terrible beauty that is Amazon dot com?
Bezos just bought the Washington Post.

The horror...the horror.

I wish I knew what he was thinking with that one.  That makes no sense to me at all.

[Pointedstick]

The horror...the horror.

I wish I knew what he was thinking with that one.  That makes no sense to me at all.

Here's my theory:

He wants original journalism content he can push in digital form as value-added for Kindle owners and Prime subscribers. But he wants it officially off Amazon's books in case the whole venture flops. It's sort of a way of dipping Amazon's toes into the "original content" market that Netflix has been getting into.

[Ad Orientem]

The more I think about it the more I think that if I were somehow limited to a single stock, I'd just skip it. I'd stick with bonds and or cash and gold. A single stock is just way too dangerous.

But find me a time machine and I will reconsider it.

[blackomen]

Walmart

[Thomas Hoog]

Horrid question

V.O.C.
http://www.lodewijkpetram.nl/proefschrift.html
in its modern variant: GE

[Reub]

...
Amazon.

I'm a gambling man, so I'm gonna pick Amazon for my one stock. 
...

As a consumer, I love Amazon for too many reasons to list here.
Also, they're evil enough to some to be given serious consideration in this thread.
Even so, don't they usually lose money? If so, you really are a gambling man.

Time will tell if it's actually "losing" money or investing money.  I think Bezos understands the nature of a public company and is a visionary in the sense that he is positioning Amazon now for future domination.  My conjecture is that one day Wall Street will wake up and realize that Amazon affects every aspect of our lives. 

As an internet marketer, I'm in a position to see that Amazon's programs are run 1000X more efficiently than Google.  But at the end of the day... it's still a gamble.

Google had a five minute outage on August 16th.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-575989 ... l-traffic/

"As it turns out though, Google's downtime did appear to have global, measurable repercussions, according to analytics firm GoSquared, which estimates that it caused a 40 percent drop in global traffic during a five-minute window"

Google's ability to influence so much of the world economy is why I am sticking with them as my choice. Coffee, as you mentioned earlier in another thread, they have many other internet companies by the balls. 

And they can influence elections and uproot dictators in their spare time.

[frommi]

I am wondering why nobody picked CL, PG or KO. I can`t imagine a world without products of these companies .

[dualstow]

I am wondering why nobody picked CL, PG or KO. I can`t imagine a world without products of these companies .

Did you mean CLX? Or something else?

CL (Colgate-Palmolive) is at least as good as CLX (Clorox).

[Reub]

Google earnings blowout:

http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/10/google ... -earnings/

I also heard today that they are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a division known as Calico, where they will be working on cures for aging, disease, and death. To me, this is the type of innovation that separates Google from just ordinary companies:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/03/tech/inno ... index.html

[Mountaineer]

DuPont    DD

http://www.dupont.com

Been around over 200 years and somehow, keeps reinventing itself.  Not many companies in that league.

[Reub]

Google is now creating a class of robot animals. They are really a very scary company!

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 07562.html

[Lowe]

To me, Intel seems the best bet.  Their product grows more essential over time, and barring some technological upset, processors will continue to increase in complexity, making it harder to compete with them.

[dualstow]

Google is now creating a class of robot animals. They are really a very scary company!

I love google and the robot firms they bought up. But, Google is scary because they don't follow their "Don't be evil" motto. I learned that when I read the 'Atlantic' piece on Internet fraudster Jesse Willms.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... et/355726/

To me, Intel seems the best bet.  Their product grows more essential over time, and barring some technological upset, processors will continue to increase in complexity, making it harder to compete with them.

Do they have a large market share of mobile phones and tablets? I'm guessing they do, but I don't know.

[Reub]

How about CBIS, Cannibus Science, or HEMP?

[dualstow]

How about CBIS, Cannibus Science, or HEMP?

#1 Beware of scammers and thinly traded stocks that get pumped and dumped.
#2 You know, Hemp, Inc is not exactly in the marijuana business. They sell hemp-related products.

See here: http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/whos ... rush.html/

[Reub]

I was actually making a social commentary. My bad!

[Lowe]

To me, Intel seems the best bet.  Their product grows more essential over time, and barring some technological upset, processors will continue to increase in complexity, making it harder to compete with them.

Do they have a large market share of mobile phones and tablets? I'm guessing they do, but I don't know.

Embedded processors have been mostly ARM chips for a while.  However, Intel is getting into that space with Atom processors.  Here is Forbes article from last year, with some figures.

The [Atom] processors are now increasingly being considered for other devices such as smartphones and tablets. We estimate Intel to currently account for 7% of the total available market, which includes netbooks, smartphones, tablets, car infotainment systems, smart TVs, etc.

The writer also mentions that Intel has 70, 80, and 90 percent of the desktop, laptop, and servers markets.  Also I am sure that Intel has more than 7% market share in general embedded applications (cars, coffee makers, etc).


EDIT : Forgot link.

[dualstow]

Thanks, Lowe. Interesting!
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For Reub: Up in Smoke: Marijuana Stocks Fly High as Colorado Law Takes Effect

Shares of thinly-traded and volatile marijuana stocks like Medbox (MDBX) enjoyed a big bounce on Thursday following the dawn of legalized recreational pot use in Colorado this week.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/20 ... es-effect/

I just checked yahoo finance, though, and it appears to be down 11% today. (shrug)