Stocks to consider

This is not financial advice. Do your own research. Here’s a reassonable portfolio of stocks to consider aiming for growth and dividends. With the “metaverse” upon us, some companies below such as Nvidia, Roblox and Unity are likely to go up, not to mention Apple and Google. Tech will carry on dominating in the future and I’m sure Beth Kindig would approve. The following list represents my current portfolio. I’m not very happy about Rolls Royce but maybe the stock will rise up. It’s involved in aviation, but feels more like a turkey.

Stocks can be classified by market, whether they pay dividends or not, sectors, indexes and many other ways. Here, I’m only interested in markets (countries the companies come from — this can instantly show you if you can trust them, countries with poor economic ratings will also have riskier companies) and whether they pay dividends or not. Most of my portfolio is in the tech sector. Tech sector companies can be divided into bodies and souls. Bodies mean hardware like laptops, phones, chips. Souls means software, data analytics and possibly, cloud computing. Many companies deal with bodies and souls — Apple is mainly a bodies company with lots of soul stuff too (like iCloud). Each company has an EPIC or search code under which it is listed (up to 6 characters). Hope you can find them if you’re interested and follow the details yourself. I’ve only given brief information on each company and why, for the moment, I’ve chosen them. You should not tend to buy more than 10 companies for a private portfolio. I started with over 14 companies for a…