Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value

Re:Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value by seanmcdirmid on Monday April 03, 2017 @04:33PM (#14026870)

Tesla is RISKY: it is a bigger gamble, higher volatility, higher upside if it works out, bigger chance of it going completely bust. Put Tesla in your portfolio if you want to add some risk to it. You want stability with a healthy dividend? Well, add some Ford to it.

Shorting is the way you capitalize on a stock that you think is overvalued. It is an advanced maneuver but can be done for the long term as well.

IBM...man, IBM is a tech company that got rid of most of its R&D to focus on consulting and accounting tricks. But ignoring that, IBM has a huge R&D division but has been unable to come up with any breakthroughs for quite some time now, it is the canonical mature tech company that isn't going to have rapid growth like a startup.

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Re:Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value by clock_tower on Monday April 03, 2017 @10:00PM (#14028955)

If you're looking for other stable tech-sector companies (mostly supplying corporate infrastructure), FICO and PEGA are good examples; so is Microsoft, for that matter. But why look for them? (They're S&P 500 components with solid dividends, so maybe that's answer enough.)

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Re:Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:50AM (#14032542)

I own Microsoft stock, it isn't exactly a growth one.

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