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Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by ibaikov on Friday December 27, 2019 @09:22AM (#21891448)
Writing this for myself to check in few years:

Energy breakthrough making it cheaper - everything needs energy to function, that's probably an obvious pick.

Internet in rural places - access to internet is needed for everything: new jobs, entertainment, services, goods etc. If there'll be a way to access internet in rural places all over the world - it'll probably be one of the best companies (thinking starlink or something similar, since preferably you'll need low latency).

Content production or content delivery - people will always want entertainment, ie games, movies or streams. It is very far from ideal both in production and delivery. Solving it will give insane reach and insane amounts of money.

Reimagination of hiring and changing professions.

Probably another social network - people are not satisfied, someone has to try.

Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by rahulchhabra07 on Saturday December 28, 2019 @06:42PM (#21902648)
> Probably another social network - people are not satisfied, someone has to try.

What do you expect out of the new social network?

Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by psv1 on Friday December 27, 2019 @05:59AM (#21890573)
> What will the best performing S&P500 stock of the 2020s?

If you had asked the same question 10 years ago, no one would have guessed Netflix... because it wasn't in the S&P500 at the time.

Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by robjan on Friday December 27, 2019 @06:48AM (#21890786)
If we knew then it wouldn't return 4k%. Anything that's already known is priced in.
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by xtracto on Friday December 27, 2019 @10:41AM (#21891900)
My take is on health tech related companies. Similar to frequency therapeutics and their fx322. I think this decade we will see the commoditisation of health improvements.
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by tomhoward on Friday December 27, 2019 @05:09AM (#21890349)
This probably isn't the right audience for a discussion involving speculation about speculation :)
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by chvid on Friday December 27, 2019 @06:33AM (#21890729)
It is a once a decade question so I am hoping it is alright ...
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by derision on Friday December 27, 2019 @09:28AM (#21891468)
AMD and many other semiconductors. I'm up 500% on my semiconductor portfolio and it's still early, there's a lot of emerging smaller companies getting involved now, from FPGAs to potential x86 competitors. The foundries and supply chain are doing great too
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by PascLeRasc on Friday December 27, 2019 @11:45AM (#21892326)
I'm putting together a spreadsheet of semiconductor and other hardware manufacturing stocks and weighting them by Glassdoor rankings of company culture, those will be my long-term picks. So far Analog Devices and Cirrus Logic are looking very strong. And Apple of course.
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by derision on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:02PM (#21892937)
I've been building a position in Lattice since $6, it's $19 today. Jim Anderson left AMD to be CEO there. I bought on the chance there's a future merge/acquisition but they're doing great work regardless
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by PascLeRasc on Friday December 27, 2019 @03:14PM (#21894171)
Wow, you might be right, but I've never seen a P/E ratio that high (125). Do you think it might be due for a correction?
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by stuwon on Friday December 27, 2019 @02:37PM (#21893807)
What are your thoughts on the near Canyon Bridge acquisition and Trump block?
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by purplezooey on Friday December 27, 2019 @03:48PM (#21894500)
Except much of this is fake and suffers from selection bias.
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by PascLeRasc on Friday December 27, 2019 @09:01PM (#21896540)
Welcome to speculation.
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by kangnkodos on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:00PM (#21917060)
MCD - McDonalds will manage to eke out a small gain over the decade, and be the winner of the 2020's.

Following a recession, all new investors will panic and withdraw all their money and keep it out for years. They didn't know the market could be down two years in a row. Boomers reach a phase in their lives where they are only taking money out of the stock market, and spending it on Chinese goods. Inflation picks up, and smart money moves from stocks to gold and then bonds. This combination will lead to one of the worst decades for stocks since the great depression. 2028 and 2029 sees money starting to go back into the market. But the decade as a whole sees low gains.

But even in a recession, people still treat themselves by eating out at McDonalds and their new $5 Keto menu.

Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by p1esk on Friday December 27, 2019 @06:20AM (#21890671)
Some AI startup.
Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by psv1 on Friday December 27, 2019 @07:25AM (#21890939)
Very unlikely.

1. The probability of some paradigm changing breakthrough in AI over the next 10 years - the kind that can potentially give you the massive market returns - is extremely low.

2. The breakthroughs that will happen will most likely come from the big companies with massive budgets and talented research teams.

AI startup are fighting a losing battle.

Re:Ask HN: What will be the stock of the 2020s? by p1esk on Friday December 27, 2019 @04:41PM (#21894944)
What you said has always been true, in every field.

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook - all of them competed with big companies when they started and none of them relied on any single paradigm changing breakthrough, yet they managed to change paradigms.