one of the questions that Brian and i get asked all the time on our youtube channel
comments and on social media is "do you guys own the stocks that you're talking about?" well
both brian and i are contractors for the motley fool which means we are required
at all times to disclose our holdings for the public however those disclosures don't show you
our percentage allocations so in this video we wanted to walk through the top 10 stocks
that make up Brian Stoffel's portfolio my name is Brian Feroldi and my name is Brian Stoffel
thanks to Quartr for sponsoring today's video well first brian let's tell people how to find
what stocks that we hold ryan if you want to do that you can go to the motley fools website
and type in the names that we have for me it's tmfcheesehead because i'm from wisconsin for you
tmftypeoh because you're not very good at spelling nope terrible at it it's a miracle that i ever got
through writing a book but if you look at our profile pages and click on the info and scroll
down to the stocks we own that is a complete list of all the tickers that we own at any given time
before we even think about making a trade in the stock market we need to clear it with the
legal department at the motley fool and make sure that we immediately update this page so
that it reflects what we own that's right and this page is always up to date for both of us
but let's give viewers a more complete view at what your portfolio currently looks like alright
brian so what's your 10th biggest holding my 10th biggest holding is definitely the newest out of
this group of 10 and that is Airbnb a company that just came public last year but i'm very
interested in about five percent of my portfolio hasn't done much since i bought it now what is
the crux of your thesis for owning airbnb well brian what i love about this company is i think
that they're offering something that's incredibly valuable they're mission driven helping anyone to
belong anywhere and they've got a powerful network effect brian both you and i talked about airbnb
on the channel before if you want to see that video click the link in your screen but this
comedy card very well on both of our investing checklists yep brian anything that scores above
the 12 is labeled anti-fragile in my category and airbnb checks that box moving on to your
number nine holding is the artist formerly known as Google that's right we don't want to call it
Alphabet because almost everybody knows that as Google this is one of my oldest holdings still
about five percent of my portfolio and as you can see it is basically increased eight times
in value so why have you allowed this company to become such a big part of your portfolio well
google makes tools that i like they make my life easier and they're available to anyone i realize
that they use that for advertising dollars which i'm not a huge fan of but by investing in Google
you not only get that core business but all of these other bets that they're working on too
yeah this company scores extremely well on both of our investing checklists and what's most amazing
is that none of their other bets have really paid off what will happen to the company's financials
once one finally does all right time for number eight what do we got well we got a stock that i
bug you about all the time and that is Axon Enterprises it's one that i've owned for four
years and i basically talked about it every day for the past four or five years i can tell you
that i personally ignored axon until i met you and you talked my ear off about it and i gotta say
i like it now just as much as you do but give us the bull case what does this company do
so axons started out as taser international they made stun guns for police forces their mission is
to protect life and they thought that was one way to do it but 10 years ago they got into the body
camera business and then started creating software to help organize store and search through that
now they're making other tools that help make life easier for police officers and more importantly
hold everyone accountable and give people the time to connect in their community yeah we've done a
deep dive video on axon 2. if you want to see that click the link you see on your screen all right
number seven is an up-and-coming ecommerce company i hear about yeah maybe you've heard about it
amazon this used to actually be my largest holdings by a wide margin it's still done a
great job increasing 15 times in value and i've owned it since 2010. now you just said used to
be your top holding is something going wrong well here's the thing the way that amazon works is they
build all these tools to service the everything store that's where fulfillment by amazon came from
that's where aws came from and then they offered to the rest of the world but their mission since
day one is to be the earth's most customer-centric company advertising is starting to become a bigger
bigger part of the business but i don't think that serves customers well at all and so that's why i
decided to trim my state fair enough you don't think the company is living out its mission as
well as it did before but even with this this company scores extraordinarily well on both of
our investing checklists it does it's tied for the highest score of any company i've put through it
all right time for number six what the heck is atlassian well this is a company that a lot of
people might not know about i've only owned it for three or four years and it's a little over five
percent of my portfolio atlassian is basically making tools that allowed teams to work together
especially in today's distributed work from home workforce yeah there's a lot to like about this
company but what's your bold case moving forward well the thing is is atlassian makes tools that
make life easier for people that work at companies that have distributed workforces and this chart
shows that the company not only holds on to those customers because these tools work but they get
those customers to add more tools over time which is great for those companies the people working
at them and shareholders brian this is a company that yet again you have banged the drum on and
this company scores unbelievably well on both of our checklists all right brian up next is your top
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brian let's talk about your fifth biggest holding which to be honest when this company came public i
said boy i don't like that name and you know what that's why we dig into the company itself and that
company is datadog this is a stock that i've only owned for three years but it's already quadrupled
in value and that's because like many others it's designing things that makes life easier
especially at tech companies now we've recently did a deep dive into data but remind us what does
this company do well this company was started by two individuals who worked at an education tech
company but they realized that the development side and the operations side of the company they
didn't talk to each other much so they created tools that allowed them to talk together they've
now looped in security departments as well and by looking at this timeline you can see how they've
rolled out more tools over time and importantly customers are using those tools in droves this
company has executed nearly flawlessly ever since it came public revenue growth has been high and
man oh man does this company check a ton of boxes and what we look for in great businesses all right
time to pivot a little bit to the cyber security market and you're number four holding crowdstrike
that's right i did a write-up on crowdstrike once for the motley fool and after i did it i
said man there's a lot to like about this company and there has been it's almost tripled in value
in just three years yeah one thing that impressed me about crowdshrike is its ability to upsell
customers over time yeah it really is impressive and the reason i chose this image is because they
shared a similar one when they went public in 2019 and there were 11 possible tools to choose from
today there's 21 possible tools and customers are again adopting additional tools in droves
love that and this company blew away both of our investing checklists so very high quality business
all right moving on to number three which is a stock we have yet to talk about on this channel
that's right and that stock is mongodb what this company does is it makes databases that you can
use and get and organize information even if it's not in rows and columns a mongodb can be
a difficult company to wrap your head around but one thing that really stood out to me about this
company was founded by the same team that found the doubleclick doubleclick was an acquisition
that google made many years ago and that was one of the key acquisitions that allowed google to
become google now brian one of the things that i really want to highlight about mongodb is that i
invested in this because i liked what i saw but i am not going to claim to totally understand
how this company works or what makes it so much better than anybody else but what i will say and
this is important is that when a stock does very well over a very long period of time even if i
don't totally understand what's happening i'm just gonna let it run until it gets to be too big and
that's why mongodb has grown to be my number three position the thing that i always like to watch
with mongodb is the number of developers that are using the platform and if you look at that metric
it's clearly heading in the right direction and aside from that when we look at the rest of the
business this company scored very well on both of our checklists moving on to the number two this is
also one of my top holdings as well yep and brian people might not know this but i spend a part
of every year in central america and this is a company that focuses on latin america and that is
mercado libre i love this company it's increased almost eight times in value since we purchased it
and i'm a big believer in all the things it's trying to do in that section of the world and
those returns are despite this company getting essentially cut in half over the last couple of
months but what is the bold case for mercado libre from here well look mercado libre's mission is to
democratize commerce and finance so it has its mercato libre marketplace platform which is a
combination of ebay and amazon but then it has a payment solution mercado pago it has a fulfillment
solution mercado embios it has a credit solution in mercado credito those are the four biggest ones
and who knows what they'll look like in years to come yeah i love the optionality of this
company and not only does it have optionality it's executing brilliantly on each of those categories
beyond that this company scored very well in both of our checklists and brian when we were talking
about amazon i said it was tied for the highest score this is the company that it's tied with
mercado libred a score of 15. moving on to your number one holding brian your largest holding is
shopify what's impressive about shopify is i've owned it for about five years and it's already
about a 17 bagger and that includes with the stock almost getting cut in half in the past couple of
months this is a great company that has been a great stock for our portfolio yeah shopify is
one of those businesses that checks just about every box that i look for in a great business
and i am particularly fond of this company's founder and ceo toby lootcake i am too and what
i love is that they have created a platform that basically anyone can benefit from from
the big companies to the small mom and pops and people just trying to get started off the ground
if you need an e-commerce presence and you need things taken care of shopify can handle almost all
of them for you shopify is a business that taught me a lot of lessons because i ignored it for a few
years even though many smart people and they were buying it simply because i was overly focused on
the company's valuation i finally gave in when the stock was trading at about 250 dollars per share
and that even though it was a very high valuation proved to be a savvy move all right brian we just
walked through your top 10 holdings but tell us how is your portfolio done recently well brian
this is where we're going to see a little bit of blood in the streets it hasn't been pretty
in just the one month of 2022 my portfolio is actually down 19 the overall market is
down the s p 500 by six percent but mine by much more does the picture get any brighter
if we zoom out over the last year believe it or not brian the picture actually gets worse
in terms of underperformance sure i'm only down three percent but that's at the same time that the
s p 500 is up 21 all right well we always preach having a long-term time horizon what's the picture
like if you look like over a three-year period well it gets much better and this goes to show why
if anyone ever tells you what their returns were over a year or two years that's not enough you've
got to zoom out over the last three years this portfolio has done much better returning 170 put
in perspective that's almost tripling while the s p 500 was up 67 how about if we zoom out even more
and look at the five-year returns it gets better the portfolio has more than quadrupled in value
while the s p 500 has basically just doubled again the longer time frames are what really
count and finally how have you done over the last 10 years all right brian this is a really
interesting example go back to mid-november 2021 and my portfolio was up over 900 over the past 10
years it has fallen a ton and that's been painful but it is still doing so much better than indexed
investing in the s p 500 returning basically a seven bagger in 10 years it underlines why
volatility can be tough but over the long run it can be worth it if you're invested in quality
anti-fragile businesses now there's no telling what your portfolio might do next but as you
say this is all the experiment for you to test out anti-fragility in the portfolio that's absolutely
right brian and the way i like to think about it is we can either make gains or learn but we're
not losing either way awesome well thank you for sharing that and if you enjoy this video
and like us do it next week with my portfolio let us know in the comment section below Brian's out