Last year suppose to be a horrible year for the stock market.
Back in march 2020, we all witnessed how the stock market dipped by 30 percent.
Most people were afraid to invest because no one was confident about tomorrow.
The crisis that was in front of us was unlike anything else.
It wasn't a mortgage crisis like in 2008 or a bubble-like in the 2000s.
It was something that we couldn't see, and yet it just stopped the world economy overnight.
We had no idea when it will be over or at least when life would get back to normal,
but it seems like it's never going back to normal.
We are just going to have the new normal.
But what we know for sure is that the market didn't crash; at least the fed didn't allow
it.
Like it always does, the fed got out its printing machines and started printing dollars like
there is no tomorrow.
But it was unlike any other case.
The fed printed unbelievable amount of money to keep the economy running even though most
people were stuck at home, so the stock market instantly jumped back to its pre crisis levels,
and the S&P500 was up by 18 percent.
That is incredibly high.
18% for the S&P500 means it's one of the best years it ever had.
But 18 percent compared to other stocks is almost nothing.
Apple was up by almost 80 percent, amazon rose by 73 percent, and some stocks like Tesla
rose by a few hundred percent.
Anyone had the opportunity to double their savings in a single year.
It took you ten years to save that much money, and in less than a year, you could have doubled
it.
Some people did that, but others missed the opportunity.
However, that doesn't mean there aren't going to be more opportunities this year.
As far as I see it, the stock market is going to keep rising this year.
Another stimulus bill is on the horizon, and fed doesn't seem like it will stop printing
money anytime soon, which could increase the inflation rate.
But that's something we will discuss in another video.
Here in this video, i am going to share with you three stocks that I believe will do great
this year, I have personally invested in them so
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If you follow my stock suggestions on Patreon,
you know that I invested in Disney last year in September.
1.
Disney
Back when the stock was struggling, since the pandemic forced its theme parks to shut
down and put at risk its entire business model, I decided to invest in it because Disney is
a unique company.
It owns the rights for all of your favorite fictional characters.
But it wasn't taking the best advantage out of them.
So when Disney replaced its CEO.
The new CEO decided to take the company in a completely different direction.
Instead of focusing on theme parks and material assets, it shifted its focus to online streaming
services to compete with Netflix.
Last September, it had around 33 million paid subscribers, which is a lot.
According to the arguments I Brough forward, Disney has everything it needs to increase
that number by at least ten times.
We all grew up watching Pixar, Micky Mouse, Marvel heroes, and Star Wars and Disney owns
all the rights for these fictional characters.
All that is left for it to do is take full advantage of them, which it started doing
last year.
Guess how many paid subscribers it has now, over 95 million, that's almost 100 million
subscribers.
And since the pandemic is not over a year, Disney is going to pour more resources into
its Disney plus.
It's entirely possible that Disney is going to have around the same number of paid subscribers
as Netflix has today in a year or so, which is around 350 million, which is why I think
Disney stock will keep rising this year as well.
I know that Disney is not as exciting as Tesla, but it's a safe investment that has a huge
potential to grow.
If it doubles its number of paid subscribers within this year, it's entirely possible that
its stock price would rise by at least 50 percent.
And that's not speculation.
It's based on facts and numbers.
The second stock that I believe is going to
have a great year is Airbnb.
If you are one of our Patreons, you know that I have invested in Airbnb recently.
Airbnb
Shortly after moving to San Francisco in October
2007, roommates and former schoolmates Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia came up with the idea
of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into bed and breakfast,
yeah its original name was AirBed & Breakfast, thank god they changed the name.
Otherwise this idea wouldn't have worked.
That simple idea has now put upside down the entire tourism industry.
No one thought it's going to work because 'Strangers will never stay in each other's
homes,' but it turns out that's absolutely wrong.
Why waste a fortune on hotels when you can stay in a similarly good place for a fraction
of a price.
The idea was - Save money when traveling, make money when hosting, and share culture"
It Doesn't get much simpler than that.
Airbnb has become a verb like we use google
when we say "search for something online" or "Uber instead of a cab or a taxi."
That does not mean it's going to be far more successful, but it certainly puts Airbnb in
a good spot and illustrates the power of its brand.
Airbnb, like other social media companies, benefits from the network effect.
The bigger the network, the more difficult it gets to compete with.
For example, you are using Facebook because all of your friends are there.
The moment they leave, Facebook serves little purpose.
The same goes for Airbnb.
If all homeowners are listing their homes in Airbnb, most people will use Airbnb by
default, which has already happened.
But besides just offering a place to stay, Airbnb is also focused on experiences, which
are already a huge part of Airbnb but could be even bigger.
It could launch services such as purchasing properties, getting a mortgage, and many more,
but that's going to be in the future, I guess.
Airbnb has the opportunity to become a tech giant like Google or Amazon, and in the years
to come, it has to prove it.
The third stock that I believe has great potential
is Fiverr.
3.
Fiverr
I am not a big fan of Fiverr, but recently I have started using it more and more.
From February 2020 to February 2021, the Fiverr stock grew by almost a thousand percent.
Yes, you heard that right, by 1K percent.
Unfortunately, I didn't invest in it back then because I didn't see that coming.
Everyone can complain about the pandemic, but not Fiverr because it was the best year
in the companies history.
Even Tesla didn't grow by that much.
Big businesses might not see the benefits of Fiverr because they have all the money
they need to hire the best talents.
However, when it comes to small businesses, hiring even a single person is super difficult.
Making sure they get paid is way more difficult than it seems, and Fiverr makes that process
a lot easier.
First of all, no one gets paid unless they get the job done.
Secondly, you are not hiring anyone full-time, and thirdly, you can hire people across the
world where labor cost is a lot cheaper than in your country.
The stock price might not grow by an additional 1K percent this year or even the next year,
but that doesn’t mean It has no room to grow further.
In January 2020, Fiverr had 2.4 million buyers and a little over 800K sellers, I couldn't
find the data for 2020, but the pandemic has clearly made Fiverr much more popular.
Not only that, its total revenue has been growing year after year to 400 million dollars
by 2019, the average bill has increased from 64 dollars to 170 dollars by the end of 2019.
Let's face it.
This pandemic is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Yeah, the vaccine is going to make it a lot easier, but the virus is going to mutate and
keep circulating among us.
This means that the number of freelancers will just keep growing, the number of people
who ill decide to work from home will keep rising.
Based on the current circumstances, Fiverr will probably keep growing this year and in
the next few years as well.
Its biggest obstacle is probably high commission fees since competitors can come in and drag
some of its customers with lower commissions.
However, as Fiverr grows, it starts taking advantage of the network effect, it could
become THE PLACE for freelancers, and if that happens, its valuation could very well grow
by a few times.
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