Hi guys, it's Mark.
So your 20s are a pretty exciting time,
but you also have a lot of important choices to make.
Unfortunately, many people choose to waste these years.
However, if you're smart, you can use them to your advantage
and set yourself up for financial freedom
or just a future full of Lambos and mega yachts,
if that floats your boat.
So with that said, today,
I'm going to be sharing 10 of my favorite individual stocks.
By investing in these during your 20s,
you should be well ahead of the crowd.
It's really important to watch this video
all the way to the end, just in case you miss out
on the perfect stock for you.
While you're smashing that Like button
for the AlTube Yougorithm,
let me remind you that I'm a businessman
and not a financial advisor.
So all of this is just based on my own personal experience
of becoming a millionaire and should not be taken
as financial advice.
All done, let's dive in.
Firstly, if any of these stocks seem too expensive,
then don't worry, you can just buy a fraction of a share.
This means if a stock is $1,000,
then you can choose to buy a tenth for only $100.
Believe it or not, you can actually invest as little
as $2 if you want.
Public.com offers this in the USA
and they're also giving away a free stock worth up
to $1,000.
Freetrade also offer fractional investing in the UK
and you can currently get free stock worth up to 200 pounds.
I'll leave those links in the description below.
Stock number one has to be Tesla.
A lot of people will tell you that Tesla
is heavily overvalued and has seen most of its growth.
However, in my opinion, I think we're just getting started.
Sure, Tesla is expensive,
but I don't think it should deter you from investing
if you plan to hold the stock long-term.
Just a few months ago, I gave $1,000
to a beginner investor called Laura,
and she decided to put $200 into Tesla.
A lot of people in the comments said
she was making a mistake.
However, yesterday she texted me
and said that she had made over $58 in the last month.
This just proves Tesla still has amazing explosive growth.
I'm certainly a bit biased when it comes to this stock
as both me and my son, Curtis,
own a Tesla Model 3 and love it.
As soon as I got into it and felt the speed
and tested the autopilot, I really fell in love.
Even my neighbor loved it so much,
he went and got one for himself.
Tesla is just so much more than an electric car company
as it's got so many potential revenue streams,
I'm really excited about the electric battery storage,
as well as the self-driving technology
and robotaxi service they plan to launch.
Just imagine Tesla owners had the ability
to let their car become a taxi
that drives itself during the day
when they weren't using it and profit from it!
Recently, Hertz, the car rental company,
announced they were buying 100,000 Tesla Model 3s.
And the more interesting thing
was they didn't buy them at a discounted rate.
This is because Hertz see that Teslas are cheaper to refill,
cheaper to maintain and have a higher resale value,
not to mention that hundreds
of people will now be renting Teslas.
And after knowing how it feels to drive a Tesla
for the first time, I have a strong feeling,
these unofficial test drives are going
to create even more sales.
It's safe to say Tesla stock makes up a big chunk
of my portfolio and I'll be holding it long term.
Stock number two is Coinbase.
If you bought into Coinbase when it first went out
for trading on the stock market like my son Curtis did,
then there's a chance you might be feeling quite sad
about this stock.
But let's face it, IPO day is always a risky one.
Saying this, a couple of months after the IPO,
Coinbase rallied and regained 37%, meaning the people
that bought in at the dip made some nice profit.
And I believe this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Crypto is on the rise and a recent study showed
that 13% of Americans traded crypto in the last 12 months,
which is pretty staggering, really.
If you still aren't aware of what exactly Coinbase is,
then let me fill you in.
It's kind of like PayPal, but for cryptocurrency.
You can purchase, send and receive numerous cryptos
all from their app in exchange for a transaction fee.
During the last year,
I bought hundreds of thousands worth of cryptocurrency
and I've tried out various different platforms,
but I always find myself coming back to Coinbase
because it's just so easy to use.
Coinbase make a lot of money from transaction fees.
This is even better when Bitcoin's price is rising
and more people are buying in,
as the amount of Coinbase are able to take in fees,
is higher as well.
They actually generated over one billion in revenue in 2020,
which was 136% increase on 2019.
I don't think this will slow down anytime soon
as a partnership with Facebook and their new NFT platform
is currently on the horizon.
I also like that they reached out to me
and offered everyone who uses the code TILBURY10
when signing up, $10 worth of free Bitcoin.
I'll also leave a link in the description for that.
At the end of the day,
I think there are a lot of challenges ahead for Coinbase.
However, I do think they'll overcome them.
Number three is Amazon stock.
Amazon started off as a small online bookshop,
but over the last decade has grown by over 1588%,
making it shareholders very wealthy in the process.
I remember first hearing about Amazon in the late 1990s
and being intrigued by the plan
to dominate the book industry
and then progress on to bigger markets.
Amazon were actually one of the few internet companies
that survived the survived the dot-com bubble.
I don't think that Jeff Bezos will be satisfied
until we're all Amazon Prime members.
It's just so convenient being able to order something
with a swipe of a finger and it turn up
on your doorstep the next day.
Just to prove this point, Amazon actually delivered
a record performance in 2020
with its annual revenue up 38% to $396 billion,
which was a yearly increase of over $100 billion.
This is probably due to the amount
of packages my son orders.
I swear we have a new piece
of camera equipment arriving everyday.
He's addicted, but seriously, these figures are promising
as they show Amazon is still growing at a scary rate,
which means now is still a good time to invest.
I also really like how Amazon are pushing the boundaries
with their digital voice assistant, Alexa.
They probably entered this market so they could compete
with the big rivals, such as Google and Apple.
The result: a staggering 53.6 million of the Amazon Echos
were sold in 2020 alone.
Stock four is one of my most recent investments, Affirm.
Affirm gives customers access
to interest-free payment plans.
They do this by passing the interest costs
onto the retailer.
They're happy to accept this cost
because it opens their market up to so many more people
that wouldn't be able to buy their products otherwise.
I find this stock very appealing
as late August, Affirm announced that Amazon
would integrate Affirm's buy now, pay later services
into its marketplace and enable its shoppers
to split purchases, $50 or more into monthly payments.
This is huge news as it means you can have exposure
to Amazon without paying the high stock price.
I admit this stock is more of a risky one
than the other blue chip companies I've talked about so far,
but I love how disruptive it is.
I also think there's a real value in the strong partnerships
it's formed with retailers.
If you're looking for a risky stock
with some huge upside potential, then Affirm is for you.
Stock number five is Enphase Energy.
The move to renewable energy is inevitable.
So I think it's very important to have this stock
in my portfolio.
But Mark, even if I agreed that renewable energy
is the way forward, why is Enphase a good stock?
Enphase stock surged 554% in 2020.
And it's showing no signs of slowing down in 2021.
And the best part, they're profitable
with a gross margin of 39%
and some fantastic recent earnings.
It also ranked up $774 million in revenue for the year 2020.
And they have been managing
their debt to asset ratio really well.
They're also not currently paying a dividend
so money is being reinvested into the company
with a strong focus on innovation.
With more and more customers turning green
and the demand for solar and clean energy on the rise,
I see a bright future for Enphase Energy.
Stock number six is Corsair.
If you like video games, which I'm sure a lot of you do,
then Corsair is a great stock to watch.
I'm gonna be honest, their stock has taken
a bit of a beating in 2021,
but I'm seeing this as a great buy-in opportunity.
It's all well and good buying a stock
when everyone's raving about how much money they've made.
However, the real money is made
when you buy an undervalued stock.
Becoming a YouTuber or Twitch streamer is a career
lots of kids want.
They love the idea of being paid to play video games.
I mean who doesn't like the sound of that?
It sounds pretty good to me.
This just shows the huge demand for Corsair products,
'cause if you're playing on a console
like Xbox or PlayStation, you're gonna need
an Elgato Capture Card and software,
which allows you to record all the video game footage in HD.
Even if you're not playing on a console,
the chances are you'll still need Corsair
as they are one of the market leaders
in gaming PCs and monitors.
In addition to all of this,
they also sell mice, keyboards, chairs,
green screens, webcams, lights and much, much more.
Their revenue for 2020 sat at 1.7 billion
with a net profit of 103 million.
They're extremely profitable
and there is no reason this stock should be this low.
The only real major downside I see to Corsair's business
is the ability to stream games
from a main server in the future.
What this essentially means that you could have
a low quality PC but still stream games
from the main server in an alternative location.
However, I don't think this is gonna be a major issue
as Corsair's target market won't want to deal
with the lag involved with streaming a game.
If I was a serious gamer,
I'd definitely rather have my own PC
and play at the best of my ability.
I'm consistently buying Corsair stock
and just HODLing it, waiting for it to go to its true value.
Stock number seven is Facebook.
If you're watching this, Facebook,
I find it hard to still truly love you
since you deleted my Instagram account.
However, even I can't deny their stock
and overall business is fantastic.
Facebook gets a lot of bad press.
However, it's recently revealed
that it has big plans to change its name
as part of a company rebrand.
Facebook stock price has been climbing for years
and at the moment, the stock has actually taken
a pretty big dip.
So I've been buying even more
as I do believe in Facebook, longterm.
Even with the dip, Facebook stock still sits
at strong 30% gain for the past year,
which is still drastically higher
than the average rate of return of the stock market,
eight to 10%.
Nowadays, Facebook can be seen as a social media platform
for boomers like me.
However, let's be honest, we've all, at least,
used Facebook, even if we don't use it anymore.
So, therefore, they have lots of data on us
and we all know that data is worth more than gold.
The more interesting thing to me
is Facebook's strategy of acquiring competitors
like Instagram and WhatsApp.
I've met hundreds of business owners
that rely on social media advertising to get customers.
And in 2020, these adverts brought in
a whopping $84 billion of revenue for Facebook.
So it looks like Facebook is here to stay.
And I just hope they eventually give me
my Instagram account back.
(clicks tongue) Come on, guys!
You know you want me.
Stock number eight is Adobe.
During the gold brush, I remember those days well,
it was the people selling the shovels
that made the huge profits.
This is a lot like today, but instead the demand
is for video and graphic creation.
And Adobe is the creative tool
that helps you in that process.
We use Adobe software daily in my businesses to edit videos,
photos, and to create different designs.
When people talk about editing their photos,
they even refer to it as Photoshopping.
The name of the app is actually integrated
into our language.
This just shows how widely used it is.
It's a bit like here in the UK,
we all call our vacuum cleaners Hoovers,
even though that's actually just a brand name.
Adobe are just dominating the space
when it comes to creative software and tools.
Plus, about 97% of its revenue is generated
from subscriptions which keeps income stable
and makes forecasting future growth a lot easier.
Stock number nine is Microsoft.
Microsoft stock has been a great money maker in 2021,
achieving returns of over 43%,
which means $1,000 investment
would now be worth $1,430.
And that's not including the dividend
they currently pay investors yearly.
I like Microsoft as they are one
of the most forward-looking companies out there.
They invented the smart TV as well as the tablet.
And they completely revolutionized online gaming
with Xbox Live.
There was even a time in the 1990s
where Microsoft saved Apple
as they supplied the much needed $150 million
for them to stay afloat.
So we can thank Microsoft for a lot of things
over the years, maybe even the iPhone
that you're watching this video on at the moment.
If you're an Android, leave a comment down below
so that I can ban you from the channel.
Only joking, you know it's only love around here.
Microsoft actually had its best year yet during 2021
and has delivered 168 billion in revenue so far.
It's already smashing the $145 billion from 2020.
When you walk into any IT room,
they will most likely be filled with Windows PCs.
They have dominated the space with a 73% market share.
They've also proven their ability
to enter new markets like with game consoles.
In 2012, Sony's PlayStation had 96%
of the gaming console market.
However, fast-forwarded to 2021,
Microsoft Xbox has managed to grab over 50% market share.
The moral of the story is that Microsoft
are absolutely crushing it with market share
and most likely always will be.
That's why I think it's such a great stock to buy.
Stock number 10 is Disney.
Disney are dominating the golden era of entertainment.
And I can't see them slowing down anytime soon.
The chances are the last time you went to the movie theater,
it was to watch one of Disney's new films.
They own so many popular franchises like "Star Wars",
Marvel and even "Avatar".
It's getting to the point where they own so much stuff,
they're dominating the box office charts
with eight out of the 10 of the top-grossing movies
of all time being owned by Disney.
Even now, they're still dominating
with four out of 10 of the top-grossing films this year.
And that's not even the entirety of their business.
Disney has returned to investors a whopping 37%
over the last 12 months.
To put these returns into perspective,
if you had invested $1,000 into Disney a year ago,
then you would be sat right now at $1,370,
which is a fantastic return on investment
and well above the standard eight to 10% expected
by most investors.
The greatest thing is the rabbit hole
of Disney stretches far deeper
than just your favorite movie.
They have multiple Disney World Theme Park attractions
as well as cruise lines, which help them create
a captive market so they can extort the max
from their customers.
They love trying to take a bite out of your wallet
and also my son's hand.
(upbeat music)
(man gasps then laughs)
On top of that, their latest addition,
a subscription-based video-streaming platform,
called Disney+ showcases only films
and TV shows that they own
so they don't have to pay any licensing fees
and they're able to reach their customers directly.
The beauty of Disney's diversification means
that their stock is quite resilient,
that when something unexpected happens like a pandemic,
even though their theme parks have to close,
they can make up for it with other areas like Disney+.
If you wanna know exactly how I do this,
then you can always check out one of my past videos
where I run you through how to properly analyze
a company's stock.
It's also important to note
it's a good idea to have some money invested in index funds
like the S&P 500 as these have historically given
an eight to 10% average yearly return.
I always see this as my safety net
as it has given me reliable returns over the years.
If you'd like to see a separate video
on the best index funds,
then just let me know in the comments below.
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