[Anhil8tor]

Say I have 2,500 to invest.


Which stocks should I look at?


Edit: Long term

[BIRD33]

Buy gold.

[leeman]

Buy Ford.

[quint]

long term
bristol-myers squibb
disney
wuxi

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

long term
bristol-myers squibb
disney
wuxi

you like disney long term? why?

[snarg]

citibank

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

Say I have 2,500 to invest.


Which stocks should I look at?


Edit: Long term

That's a pretty tough question with me not knowing any more about you than you are a dumb fuck coonass.

If you don't have any mutual funds, I would suggest you put it into a good mutual fund. Which one? Depends on what kind of investment you like. If you want to play the indexes, go with Vanguard's SP500 Index fund. If you want just a general mutual fund run by a good manager, get the Bruce Fund.

As for stocks (long term) that is a tougher call right now. Long term you would think that the banks, airlines and automakers will return. I would also think that petroleum companies would be good. But, can you suffer through the near future with those? That depends on you.

Most everything I buy I do it for long term. I've got Home Depot, Southwest Airlines, Intel, Walmart, Sketchers, TXI, several bank stocks, Texaco/Shell, Exxon, Oracle, Disney........

BUT, having said all of that, if you have $2500 to invest and it is just burning a hole in your pocket, then I've got something that I would recommend. Not long term, but at least you get some good tips from some smart guys.

Sometime in December or late November, Forbes Magazine will have a short article in it titled "If you could buy just one". The title may change slightly. But they have a contest each year. They invite 10 analysts to pick ONE stock for the year. The ones that do the best, they invite them back for another year. The ones that do shitty get kicked out and replaced.

From them you will get a list of 10 companies with their reasons of why they like them. Then you have to decide which horse to bet on.

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

Be careful picking from their list though, I think I bought Countrywide from that list either last year or the year before.

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

You know that Lowes or Home Depot might not be a bad idea right now. I have stock in Home Depot, but actually prefer Lowes.

With all of the forclosures, there are tons of people renovating old houses and flipping properties. I'm sure that Lowes and HD both are benefiting from that.

[cLaY]

Wal-Mart is never a bad buy.

[quint]

i like the diversity they have between the different brands (espn,disney,abc,theme parks...)
also, the stock is in the high teens to low 20's (the lowest it has been since 2004.) it should be around 33-35.

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

i like the diversity they have between the different brands (espn,disney,abc,theme parks...)
also, the stock is in the high teens to low 20's (the lowest it has been since 2004.) it should be around 33-35.

I've been buying $100 a month in Disney for 13 years now. And I've never seen that stock make any kind of moves. It gets into the low 30's and just stalls out.

[Anhil8tor]

I have plenty of mutual funds, a roth IRA and a traditional IRA along with a 401K. As far as stocks go I currently own BAC, DIS, EXH, and some henderson global.

[Jimmy]

Otis Elevator. Sooner or later they are bound to go up.