What’s the $6 Stock Pitched by Jeff Brown for the “#1 Tech Pick of the Decade: The ‘C-V2X’ Revolution?”
by Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe | December 17, 2018 2:39 pm
Is this a new idea, or just a rehash of the "Invisible Fiber" stocks teased months ago by The Near Future Report?
I haven’t written about this particular ad, but I have seen it circulating over the past couple months… and the questions keep rolling in, so I guess the ad’s still in pretty heavy rotation and it’s time to get some answers for you.
The pitch is for Jeff Brown[1]’s The Near Future Report[2] ($99/yr “on sale” from $199)… and the headline term that seems to be getting everyone’s attention is the “C-V2X Revolution” and the impact it will have on new cars (and, of course, on investors). Here’s the intro to the pitch:
“Silicon Valley Insider Jeff Brown Just Named His #1 Tech Pick of the Decade:
“The “C-V2X” Revolution
“This key technology could be ‘built-in’ to nearly every new car by 2023…
“And one $6 stock is ready to capture this $12.3 trillion dollar market.”
Being greedy little cusses, all we really wanna know is “what’s that $6 stock?!”
But we’ll be patient. Don’t worry, we’ll get to the answer in a minute. Here’s a little bit from the email pitch that introduced the ad (well, re-introduced, we’ve seen it before) over the weekend:
“At the center of this new trend is a technological development known as C-V2X.
“As Jeff Brown stated in this exclusive presentation… ‘Building a brand-new network is vital if the United States is to continue to lead in the world economic growth…’
“Many early-stage investors have already seen rises of 8,900%… 17,000%… 62,000%… in some of the best stocks in this space.
“And he expects this one to be even BIGGER.
“One company is using this patented technology to corner this $12.2 trillion market boom.
“It is the BEST positioned company out there.”
Man, what more could you possibly want? 62,000% returns? Best positioned? BIGGER? All super exciting.
How about some specific clues? Yep, we get those too… he goes into what he means by this “C-V2X” business…
“I believe it will be the most profitable trend of the decade…
“C-V2X
“It stands for Vehicle (V) to (2) Everything (X)….
“It lets cars talk to each other. It also connects things like street lights, signals, and roadside cameras. Even parking spaces! ….
“By 2023, there’s a possibility your new car must have this type of revolutionary technology – by law.
“Proposed legislation out of Washington makes it a near-certainty.
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“One that would mandate all automakers to install a form of this tech beginning in 2020.
“By 2023, it will be practically everywhere.
“No wonder C-V2X has the support of automakers like Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ford, PSA, SAIC, Tesla, and Toyota.”
So this is one variation of the many predictions about “connected cars” and “self-driving cars” — that they will build on an increasing avalanche of information from sensors and from each other to help make traffic faster and safer and reduce collisions and accidents, among other things.
Nothing shocking there, cars are steadily moving in that direction through technological evolution… though predicting exactly which tools will be used and what the timeline will be is more art than science.
What else does he tell us about this investment opportunity? More clues:
“My research indicates only one company has what it takes to help the big car companies ramp up in time… so they hit their targets by 2023.
“Believe it or not, you can get a piece of this superstar company for less than $6 a share today.
“It could easily double or triple from here.”
And then we get some clarity about what he’s actually teasing:
“5G is the emerging mobile technology that will let our cars drive themselves…
“Making our roads far safer than ever before.
“Perhaps you’ve heard of it… and thought it was just a new “cell phone” network.
“Well, you’re only getting half the story…
“Five years from now, almost everything you touch will rely on 5G in some way.”
Yes, I do keep hearing that self-driving cars will be a huge beneficiary of widespread adoption of 5G… assuming that technical challenges of 5G can be surmounted and get the required coverage and latency delivered to enough cars. That’s partly because 5G allows for much faster (100X faster, hopefully) data transmission, so it could enable a lot of the “thinking” of cars to be done in the cloud, instead of in a supercomputer in the trunk of each car… but faster communication between cars could also be critical, and 5G is much faster than the current modern 4G/LTE standard.
Presumably those things are a ways away, since 5G is still just being tested in a few cities and the telecom companies seem much more comfortable with fixed 5G so far (and are still struggling with 5G’s problems, like small coverage areas and penetrating buildings for the highest-band spectrum, the part that offers the fastest downloads and lowest latency), but it’s possible that things could move much faster than I think.
More from Brown:
“Based on all my research, a brand new 5G Super-Cycle is kicking off.
“The C-V2X car technology you’ve seen today is just the first potential wide-scale application.”
And then he begins to roll into some specifics….
“Instead of relying on large towers placed far apart (like you see along the highway),
“The new signals will come from smaller equipment placed an average of 500 feet apart in neighborhoods and cities.
“‘Millions of new cell towers will spring up to handle the traffic,’ admits FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
“One may be needed on practically every street corner….
“…the latest digital revolution also means we’ll need new cells, radios, antennas, chips, base stations, switches, modems, and data center storage.
“And tons of fiber, too.
“But here’s what almost no one is talking about…
“Hundreds of thousands — perhaps millions—of containers the size of refrigerators will be discretely placed on or near the ground.
“There are none today.
“These ‘magic mailboxes,’ as I call them, will transmit signals up to 1,000 times faster than what’s possible today.”
Ah, now this is beginning to sound a bit familiar. Haven’t we covered these magic mailboxes before?
Indeed, yes — that exact phrasing was part of his ad for what he called “Invisible Fiber” in ads that we saw starting back in the summer[4]… which also turned out to be a “5G” themed teaser pitch.
So… is he still talking up the same companies, just in a different spiel wrapped around this “C-V2X” term? Let’s see if he drops some clues…
“At the center of this frenzy is the “$6 Digital King”
“There’s one company that is head and shoulders above anyone else.
“They’re using patented technology and covert negotiations to get ahead of the competition.
“To say this company is in the catbird’s seat would be an understatement of epic proportions.
“Their stock is hovering right around $6.
“A price that low might conjure up a startup with barely any experience.
“But this is NOT your ordinary $6 company.
“The ‘$6 Digital King’, as I call it, already has operations in 50 countries.
“This year sales could reach a staggering, mind-blowing $28 billion.
“That’s BEFORE they even get rolling on 5G.”
So… yep, that’s the same spiel he used way back in July… and this “$6 Digital King” stock is still good ol’ Nokia (NOK)[5], the wireless pioneer that has essentially shed its handset business and refocused on network equipment (and licensing its patented technologies).
And you should stop listening to me on this one, because I’m now “talking my book,” as the Wall Streeters put it… I own both Nokia shares and short and long-term call options[6] on the stock, and I mostly agree with Brown that it is a likely beneficiary of a rapid investment phase in 5G infrastructure by all the telecom companies. I’ve been buying NOK in relatively small bites over the past couple months, starting in earnest when I wrote about my 5G investing strategy for the Irregulars in October[7].
This is not necessarily a short-term, “we’re gonna get rich in a year” position for me, I think telecom infrastructure is likely to go through a multi-year investment phase that will benefit Nokia, but my options positions do imply a small bet that things could accelerate fairly quickly in 2019 as 5G investment (and press coverage) heats up… with a little juice added to that if the revolt against Huawei that President Trump is leading really ends up helping Huawei competitors like Nokia (and Samsung, and Ericsson, etc… I also own some Ericsson (ERIC)[8]).
Nokia probably won’t have $28 billion in revenue this year, but that’s about what they had last year — they’re still in a gradual revenue decline, partly because mature global 4G networks haven’t required as much equipment and investment in recent years, and 5G investment by all the big players (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, etc.) has all been quite small-scale so far even in the US, South Korea[9] and China[10] (it’s been far slower elsewhere).
So far, analysts estimate that they’ll have about $26 billion in revenue in 2019, with earnings per share growing nicely from this year’s low (26 cents this year, 36 in 2019 and 46 cents in 2020 — that’s earnings growth of better than 25%), and the company is committed to paying a growing dividend (they pay once a year, in May, with the expectation that they’ll continue to pay a dividend that provides a yield of roughly 4%). A lot is still unknown, particularly when it comes to the speed of 5G network rollouts, but I’m pretty pleased with this as a core 5G investment… we’ll see how it goes.
But, as I said, you should look elsewhere for skepticism. Here’s a long-term chart on Nokia, in case you want reason to be cautious… the stock has required a heaping helping of patience from investors over the past few years:
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Brown also teases some other plays on this “C-V2X” theme, which are really more like ancillary 5G ideas… are those still the same as they were in past versions of the ad?
Not quite — one of them is:
“A Picks and Shovels Play that Could Generate 100%+ Returns in 24 Months—Remember how I said we’ll need more than 1,000,000 cell phone towers to support the 5G rollout? That’s a 5X increase from where we are now. This Picks and Shovels business is surprisingly simple… it builds towers and leases them to wireless carriers. Plus, they own the most valuable ‘real estate[12]’ in the country.”
That’s the same spiel he had earlier in the year, and this is what I noted at the time:
“This could apply to any of the big tower companies in the US, Crown Castle (CCI)[13], SBA Communications (SBAC)[14] or the larger American Tower (AMT)[15], all of which are structured as real estate investment trusts (REITs[16]) for tax purposes. AMT is probably the more likely target for Brown, since it’s bigger and a bit more flexible (CCI pays a higher dividend, and pays out more of its operating cash flow than AMT does… SBAC is still trying to spiff up its balance sheet before they start paying a dividend), but all face essentially the same market forces — they’re at risk of losing a major customer if Sprint and T-Mobile merge, and they’re investing to try to be able to offer 5G networks, but it’s not entirely clear if the “cram the tower with antennas” model will work as well in 5G, as little antennas and “small cells” need to be on essentially every street corner to provide urban coverage.”
Personally, I’ve opted for Crown Castle (CCI) in this bunch, which is the highest yielder and one I’ve also owned in the past, and I bought a small position a couple months ago, but they’re all quite expensive and not exactly ‘contrarian’ ideas… and they’ve all performed similarly over the past five years and they’re all very big and carry a fair amount of debt, so they’ll also be sensitive to any big swings in interest rates — here’s a chart of their total return:
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So that’s the same, but then we get one more, which is different than the variation of this ad that I covered a few months ago:
“The Gorilla Attacks! – Very few recognize this, but one of the best ways for investors to get exposure to the coming 5G boom is through phones themselves. Today’s “4G” phones will not be able to take advantage of this breakthrough technology… at all. So new phones capable of operating 100 times faster—and with 99% less delay—will be a compelling reason to upgrade. That means a whole lot of orders for a ‘gorilla’ in the market. No, it’s not Apple… or Samsung… but a ‘Made in America’ pioneer in our own backyard.”
It’s probably good that he switched it up, since the first version of this ad that I covered was teasing Snapchat owner Snap (SNAP)[18], which has been a disaster. I noted back then that any growth would be from a very low base back in July, as the stock had been falling and was dropping through $14 a share, but, as so often seems to happen, falling begets falling and it’s down another 60% or so now, and remains one of the more widely shorted stocks in the market.
Other readers noted different versions of this ad a few times over the past few months, so perhaps SNAP was dropped by Brown a long time ago — this “gorilla” version seems very likely to be a tease about Corning (GLW)[19], the creator and manufacturer of Gorilla Glass that is used in so many phones and other portable devices for its strength and scratch-resistance, though since we’re just going off the “gorilla” term and the fact that, yes, volume of phones sold is a key indicator of Gorilla Glass sales, I can’t be 100% certain on that one.
Assuming that is indeed the pitch, Corning is worth consideration as a dominant company in display glass and fiber optics (which will presumably be in more demand as wired backhaul data demand and fiber-connected data center demand grows with 5G, too, since fiber is the fastest physical transmission media)… Corning is growing revenues pretty nicely for a large and established company (7-8% or so), and the expectation is that they’ll be able to grow earnings at about 10% a year, which is pretty decent for a stock that you can buy at 15X forward earnings. Not dirt cheap, and Corning has been more volatile than one might imagine for its size, partly because they’ve historically been quite dependent on a couple major industries that fell victim to oversupply and competition (fiber optic cable, then big-screen TVs), but it’s a great company with a great history of innovation.
I don’t know if Corning will necessarily benefit from 5G anytime soon — it seems likely that a big sales push for 5G handsets is probably at least a year away, and we’re currently seeing widespread reports of a lull in smartphone sales thanks in part to the “my phone is great, why should I upgrade?” sentiment… that’s the cause of most of the Apple (AAPL)[20] panic of late, and Apple is unlikely to have a 5G phone before 2020. In Apple’s case, that’s partly because they want to wait for Intel (INTC)[21] to have a viable modem, since they won’t use Qualcomm (QCOM)[22] anymore, and partly because there’s little reason to produce a phone until the networks are big and useful enough to create consumer demand.
A big upgrade cycle would benefit Corning (and Apple, and all the mobile chip and part suppliers), it’s just that I think such a cycle is probably a year or two off — there will be 5G phones from people who want to be first to market, and upgrade sentiment in the US is still really driven by Apple devices — there are some phones you can buy now that are “5G ready,” but Apple has always pushed for “best and most polished,” not “first,” and no one creates market demand like Apple once they get moving.
So there you have it — looks like C-V2X is mostly a rehash of the old “Invisible Fiber” pitch from last Summer, a broad tease to invest in some 5G-related stocks. Do you like the looks of an investment in Nokia, any of the tower REITs, or Corning? Think other favorites will do better? Let us know with a comment below.
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Corning Glass sounds good to me as a core holding. But wait for possible bottoms if there really is a big market crash over the next year or two. 5G is going to be like changing from black & white TV to color; from pay and wired telephones to cell phones. More than the change from cell phones to smartphones. I personally remember when radio was the norm. I watched TV come to be in the marketplace. And all the rest. 5G will be a slow tsunami of electronic services that will develop [grow] like topsy. 6G and onward will improve the services but 5G is like trying to explain to a farmer in 1900 why a telephone is good and what it can and will do. In two or three years everyone will laugh at how did we get by before 5G? ALL cell/smart phones will have been replaced with 5G phones by 2022. Corning seems like a very basic ‘picks & shovels’ company for the future of communications. A quick peek at the stock shows a 2.3% dividend, not shabby for a core holding. At the Dot-Com bottom GLW was worth pennies; in March ’09 the chart seems to show maybe $7. If it gets below $15 anytime soon [~next 2 years?] it is worth buying with both hands to at least a full position, number of shares or dollar value relative to your portfolio. Then enjoy the dividends forever. Or just see what can be managed in the near term volatility to get a low price from the current $26-$37 range. GLW was not much above $16 or $17 in Feb 2016. Almost worth setting a limit-gtc bid now, partial position, for $15 just to see what might happen in Q-1 2019. Note that this is how I think when I am trying to buy. “Strategy.” I am a micro-retail investor and have no positions and wouldn’t buy GLY in any case unless it drops as described in this rant. I got burned [due to bad paid advise and no advise] enough in 2008-2009. Thank you Travis for helping me change my sources of information to things that are useful.
GorillaGlass seems like a weak way to go. 5G will make AR practical which will obsolete every single smartphone. Be forewarned.
I don’t know enough about fiber optic production anymore (that’s so last century!) to know if Corning is a major player or not.
Why not just buy Apple instead of tertiery companies? They’re not gonna run the ship to the bottom of the ocean like poorly diversified suppliers will.
I’d also be looking at Cisco and IDCC as well as many fiber and tower companies…
There are some health concerns with 5G emerging, and could it be one of the technologies where it has, like nuclear power, gotten ahead of itself? I am not certain that we yet understand the effects of RF radiation, thus assuming 5G will be the next best investment …. better to be cautious?
I’ve certainly heard that concern before, particularly when it comes to temperature changes in the skin caused by millimeter wave radiation, though I haven’t heard any industry participants opting out because of the health impact of these particular wavelengths of radiation. There has been a lot of study of these wavelengths over the past decade, though I’m not at all qualified to tell you what they mean or which studies are most rational or most useful for real world understanding.
My general understanding right now is that because these are non-ionising forms of radiation, there’s no real risk of the scariest stuff — DNA damage and cancer risks that you get from UV radiation or X-rays. These are more like wifi or other radio signals, in that a very high wattage can cause temperature increases (like a microwave oven), but controls on power output by regulators keep that from being an issue for cell phones and, presumably, for 5G devices.
It’s hard to balance, because every new use of any kind of radiation, whether TV or microwaves or X-rays or high-voltage power lines, causes fear… sometimes that fear is appropriate, but it’s also often irrational. I’m keeping an eye on the science, but not fooling myself into understanding exactly what the risks are going to be.
Why is 5G a greater concern than 4G and earlier versions? Rf radiation has been a cell phone concern since at least 1990 with the publication of : https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Currents-Electropollution-Promise-Electromedicine/dp/0874776090/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1545591162&sr=8-5&keywords=the+body+electric+robert+becker
Higher spectrum = poorer coverage = novel multitudes of transmitters. The density of the resulting RF radiation will increase by at least an order of magnitude. If EMF fields, high power tranmission lines and cell phones were all equivocable in terms of causing cancer and disease, I think we’ll finally have a definite answer with 5G. Look to Europe to lead the way as they’re more concerned about long-term quality of life than making a short-term profit.
Because different frequencies have different effects on the brain and body.
The “density” of radiation will NOT increase over current levels, but probably remain approximately the same. Just as current 5 GHz. Wi-Fi features exponentially greater bandwidth and speed over 2.4 GHz., but with a corresponding geometric or log reduction in range, 5G cellular service will require such an expanded “net” of antennae precisely because the current antennae density results in inadequate signal penetration and coverage. The end “density” of radiation should therefore be approximately the same, just at a higher frequency, not necessarily power or amplitude. The frequency effects, if any, are what needs to be investigated.
Travis – if the P/E is 103 and the dividend is 4%, how is the dividend “safe”? Stock price is just over $100, with earnings of about $1.30/ share. Dividends at 4% are running at $4/ share. I get a shortage of cash of $2.70/share if dividends continue. Basically they are paying 3X earnings as dividends, unless my arithmetic is wrong. This is a Ponzi scheme, not a company, like oil and gas “trusts” that repay your investment as dividends, until there is nothing left. What have I missed? Thank you, Roger
I assume you’re referring to CCI, yes? CCI is a REIT and is generally evaluated like REITs, which means that investors tend to focus on the funds from operations (FFO), not the earnings. Because these companies generally use a combination of debt and equity to fund capital investments to refresh and grow their portfolio, they maximize cash flow for investors because they don’t set aside much of their depreciation to use to grow or replenish their capital assets (towers, etc.) — it’s a model that does rely on perpetual financing for growth, so to that extent it’s a little Ponzi-ish, but that’s true of most REITs… and valuable real estate does not generally lose value as fast as it is depreciated. Whether that’s true of communications assets like towers and cell sites, time will tell, so we each have to make our own call on that.
But for standard Wall Street valuations, at least, it’s the FFO that matters most and that analysts typically watch — expectations are for about $5.50 per share in FFO this year, and they’re on track to meet or beat that number, with a likelihood that the FFO per share will keep growing next year (the company is guiding investors to expect 6% growth), so the dividend seems safe — the new dividend, after the latest raise, is $4.50 per share ($1.125 per quarter per share). That would mean the company next year is likely to pay out 75-80% of FFO as dividends, which I think is a reasonable number compared to similar REITs.
If you want to question the Ponzi nature of REITs in general, in that they probably have a tendency to pay out too much relative to their cash flow, and tend to not be conservative in holding back some more rental cash flow for growth, which they could, then that’s a perfectly reasonable and conservative position. But it will keep you out of almost all REITs, almost all the time — not many of the are super conservative about holding onto some of their depreciation (they could if they wanted to, the tax law says they have to pay out what would have been their taxable income, and depreciation isn’t taxed… so they almost all pay out much higher dividends than are legally required).
Real estate is generally seen as a cash flow business by most investors, with the assumption that the underlying assets won’t lose value over time and may even increase in value, so your REIT returns come from leveraging equity (buying stock in a company that also borrows money to buy more assets), and receiving much of the cash flow from rent received on those assets (minus operating costs for the asset and the company’s overhead, and borrowing costs).
Excellent Article, China’s auto industry is moving so fast they are going to dominate the space shortly, there are so many specialist parts and components company’s there now, its like a giant mecchano set, just the other day a startup bought a up and running auto manufacturer just to make electric cars – https://chinadeep.info/top-10-automotive-stocks-by-dividend-yield/
Hello, have seen this link to china deep.info in multiple comments but it has not been possible to reach that website through Safari or Chrome. Any advice? Or better yet, could you provide the list of the top 10 automotive stocks you mentioned? Thank you!
I think you have a typo because the first paragraph talks about Qualcom and you provided the symbol as QXOM (more like Exxon)
You’re correct — thanks. Will fix.
Travis. Just a quick thanks for your ideas and guidance this year. It’s like Christmas every week when you send your updates. Is there any way I can “gift” a membership to a friend whom I think would enjoy your service? Have a great Xmas and happy new year!
Thanks! And sure, we can make a gift work — just email Lynn at payments@stockgumshoe.com and she can figure out the easiest way to do it.
Nokia is up 17.8% in 2018 YTD; 4.1% dividend: closed $5.49 price/share on Friday. Telecommunication stocks have been out of favour for a long time probably a long lasting blow back from the dot com hype era and the tech stock collapse. Investors seem to realise the 5G technology will require immense CapEx spending from the old line telecom providers and will have big impacts on FCF. ATT has gotten killed; people seem to think a reduction in its dividend is just a matter of time. VZ has done pretty well; AMT is up about 10% and CCI is down 3% on the year. Ubiquity Networks and Mellanox are additional small cap wireless hardware and internet connectivity plays in 5G.
I agree. Brown’s $6 stock pick with the C-V2X technology is definitely Nokia (NOK). And yes… I’m going all in.
What about SprinT?
Verizon is using INSG equipment. See the latest release.
Yes, not for the network infrastructure but for the customer equipment for fixed mobile broadband — essentially, the routers that Verizon is using to deliver home and business broadband that will be competitive with cable (their expertise was in those portable “hot spot” hockey puck devices in 3G and 4G, and this is the evolution of that product). AT&T is using Netgear “pucks” for the most part, Verizon has chosen Inseego.
Weicome back Travis… !!!
What are the “pucks” that Xfinity uses?
Is Xfinity offering a wireless hotspot? Dunno, but if so it’s a good chance it’s one of those two companies (though anyone can make them, and I think they both use Qualcomm modem chips), and with wireless service outsourced to a partner.
I own significant # of Verizon shares and look forward to their dividends! I recently
purchased 450 shares of Inseego (INSG)
at $6.32 per share as a 5G major supplier of data equipment and likely will add more very soon!
Travis, thanks for all of your hard work for
us little guys and gals out here that are attempting to keep up with the ridiculous
Inflation Rate in our country during our
Retirement and God Bless You for that!
Hello Gum Shoer’s
How many number #1 tech stocks does Jeff Brown have now? He has me all confused, I think I’m just going to put everything i have in NOKIA (NOK). I believe this is the first stock Jeff Brown and what happened to James Altucher? He was selling NOKIA and still is, but I think they all let Jeff Brown just hogg all the 5G stocks, he’s the only one I see selling them. But he has too many number # 1 Tech stocks. Which one is the number #1 Jeff for 2019? I don’t care NOKIA has always been under $6.00 and I can afford that. I think I have seen or heard if you put $500.00 into any 5G stock in 2 years you will be a millionaire. So that’s what I will do with NOKIA and you can sign the list now. In 2 years I will take anyone who signs to Nassau Bahamas, I want to go back there. I was there in 1979 see if anything strikes my memory. Now, thats if I become a millionaire in 2 years from buying $500.00 of NOKIA.
Thank :-: You
FRANK8MORRISS
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Depends which newsletter he’s selling at the time — the ads tend to persist for months, sometimes years, if the story works to get investor attention.
If you’ve heard that $500 will turn into a million dollars in two years from “any 5g stock” (or any stock at all, frankly), then you didn’t hear it from me. I do own more of NOK than any other 5G “story” stock, but mostly because it is steady and pays a good dividend and should reach a higher valuation because of the big 5G infrastructure investment that is almost certainly coming from all telecom companies over the next several years… but it’s a large-cap dividend-paying stock in a competitive industry, even a 100% gain would be quite remarkable for NOK in two years.
Are you a millionaire yet? I hope so!
@FRANK8MORRISS: “I believe this is the first stock Jeff Brown and what happened to James Altucher? He was selling NOKIA and still is”
Hi Frank, I am also betting on NOK. How do you know that James Altucher was selling? Do you have a link?
Thanks!
Lewis
Inseego is a good buy right now. ccaz
NOK or NOKBF?
Carla, Thank you for bringing up INSG! You are absolutely right. INSG is the best stock in my portfolio.
why is INSG such a great buy right now?
Many thanks for the info presented. Trying to find a small cap that supposedly has the tech to improve the penetration of the 5G signals so that the build out of antenna is not necessary. This is to be the stock that makes us properly well off from a 500$ investment. Any help here would be appreciated.
That problem is deeply rooted in the intractable Laws of Physics (shorter wavelength scatter more). So no matter how clever a gadget we invent, Physics still holds sway.
I’m sure investors will jump on the million mile battery CATL for electric cars and stock will jump short-term. For the longer term, electric cars are a great idea, eliminate pollution, etc. but how many buyers are there? Having driven a Prius, which works just fine, I find that the major problem is the lack of noise to alert the driver and pedestrians to the presence of the car – maybe a simple noise-making technology will be the next “wave”.
I’d love to invest in long-lived “million hours” batteries for more ubiquitous devices like laptops, cell phones and other technologies. Any companies doing this?
What about Jeff Brown’s predictions for Project XI and human longevity stocks – gene analyzer/sequencing from Peter Diamondis/Craig Ventner? The recent teaser for market resistant biotech stocks? Any clue as to what they are and whether they’re a good short or long term investment?
I would love to get rich quick via the right stock investments (and became poor quick with the wrong ones in 2008), but am looking for solid, growth investments, not “flash-in-the-pan.”|
Inseego