how's it going today guys so today we're
going to be talking about my top 5 stock
picks for beginners in 2018 and these
are stocks that I think are suitable for
beginners for a number of reasons that I
will discuss going forward now before we
go ahead and talk about that I want to
do a bit of an accountability check here
for myself because I made this exact
same video back on April 20th of 2017 so
I picked 5 stocks back on April 20th and
I said these stocks would be suitable
for beginners and so what I want to do
is take a look at the performance of
these stocks from that point until now
and looks like I made some very good
picture because all 5 of these stocks
did very well and all 5 outperformed the
S&P 500 so first of all we had waste
management was on my list there and
waste management returns 17.4%
since April 20th second we had Microsoft
on this list and Microsoft returned
43.6%
since being added that was obviously the
top performer of this list number three
was American Express and they returned
23.5% number four with Cisco Systems
they were the second best stock
returning 34% and number five was Apple
returning twenty three point two percent
and in that time frame the S&P 500
returned sixteen point six percent so
the overall market now I still have
confidence in all five of these stocks
listed from 2017 so these might be great
picks for beginners and I will also link
up that video at the end of this one if
you guys want to check that out but I
wanted to do five completely different
picks for the year of 2018 and that's
what we're going to talk about now now I
did have one main piece of criticism
from that video and that was the fact
that as a beginner you're looking for
investments that are not very volatile
so a volatile investment fluctuates up
and down frequently and beginners who
have little experience with the stock
market might get frightened or nervous
from that volatility and this could
cause them to make emotional decisions
if they see that price falls
significantly in the short term they
might get nervous and say ok I better
sell this investment it's an emotional
response that many beginners especially
have with the market so stocks like
Microsoft and Apple those are quite
volatile investments and so for these
picks I wanted to make sure I included
low volatility investments and the way
we are doing that is by looking at the
the beta basically allows you to compare
the volatility of this investment to the
stock market and a beta below one means
that this investment is less volatile
than the overall market and if the beta
is above one it means that this
investment is more volatile than the
actual market itself so the only
criteria for these five picks here is
that these stocks have to have a beta of
less than one which makes them less
volatile than the overall market itself
and that is going to make sure these
investments are typically going to be
less volatile than the market itself and
that is something that beginners should
be looking for now I just want to
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into this video and talk about my top 5
stock picks for 2018 and these are in no
particular order these are just my five
favorite investments for beginners again
all of which that have a beta of less
than one number one on my list here is
UnitedHealth they trade under the symbol
U and
they have a price to earnings ratio of
24 they pay a dividend of 1.3 percent
and they have a beta of 0.6 for so this
is a very simple company that offers
health care products and insurance
services particularly to employers so if
you are an employee and you have an
employer sponsored health care plan in
the United States there's a good chance
that your health care plan is actually
through United health now the reason I
like this is because this is a very
defensive industry and what I mean by
that is this is not a industry that is
going to be affected much by the
underlying market itself you typically
see with cyclical industries that they
outperform in a bull market and then
they underperform in a bear market just
because there is less spending being
directed to these businesses and
industries but with defensive industries
the spending is relatively consistent
and what I mean by that is people are
not going to be spending more money on
their health insurance just because they
have the extra money they tend to pay
for their health insurance plans no
matter what the underlying economy is
doing and when we're looking at stocks
for beginners one thing we are going to
be looking for is consistency over the
long term and due to the defensive
nature of this business this should be a
great pick for beginners
now there is one threat to United health
and it actually sent this stock into a
bit of a sell-off here in 2018 and we're
going to go ahead and discuss this now
so amazon berkshire hathaway and JP
Morgan Chase have announced that they
are teaming up to create a new
healthcare company with the goal of
lowering health care costs and better
serving customers now obviously because
united health is one of the largest
providers of health care insurance and
services that stock went into a bit of a
sell-off and I think that that sell-off
is really overdone because particularly
when we're looking at Amazon they take
on very long term projects so is
UnitedHealth under a threat to do to
this new idea being formed with these
large companies taking on health
insurance they may have a threat long
term but in the short term this really
will not affect United health at all and
I really don't see this happening for
the next five years or more because this
is a very large project that they are
undergoing so I don't see this as a
threat to United health in the short
term maybe in five to ten years this
would be a threat to them but in the
short term I still see United health as
a very strong investment so moving on
the second stock on my list here is the
Boston Beer Company they trade under the
symbol Sam or sa M they do not pay a
divot
they are a smaller company the smallest
one on this list they have a p/e ratio
of 26 and they have a beta of 0.76 so
the Boston Beer Company has a number of
key brands under their name my favorite
beer of course is the Sam Adams Boston
lager and that is their flagship beer or
the main product the best selling
product for them but they also do have a
couple other recognizable names under
them as well and those would be twisted
tea angry orchard then the truly brand
of spiked beverages and Seltzer's so the
Boston beverage company is one of the
leading craft breweries in the United
States and I think that a lot of people
really enjoy their product especially
Millennials I know a lot of people are
into the craft beers and craft breweries
and so I see a lot of positives for this
stock however a lot of people would not
invest in this company because this is
what we call a syn stock and since
stocks are companies that produce a
product that harmed the general public
so this would be like for example
tobacco companies and alcohol companies
are the major sin stocks out there now
if you're somebody who does not want to
invest in something that is possibly
damaging people's lives then maybe you
would not be interested in the Boston
Beer Company but I just tend to look at
things objectively I wouldn't really
have a problem with investing in that
craft brewery I would never invest in
the tobacco company that is just for
personal and ethical reasons that is not
something I would want my money invested
in just because I think that cigarettes
and tobacco products are very damaging
to people's lives but I don't really see
that same effect here with a craft
brewery but the reason why people tend
to like these sin stocks is because they
are again recession proof investments
because people tend to buy their
cigarettes in their alcohol no matter
what the underlying economy is doing
especially if they're falling on hard
times a lot of people are going to be
consuming more of these harmful products
like alcohol and tobacco and so this
might be an investment that is going to
have better durability during a poor
economic time so the third pick on my
list here is 3m they trade under the
symbol mmm they have a price to earnings
ratio of 26 they pay a dividend of 2.3
percent and they have a beta of 0.97%
so 3m stock correlates very closely with
the actual market itself looking at that
beta the reason that like 3m is because
they have a very consistent operating
and growth history and they also have
diversification across different
industries within their product segments
so the main positive here for three
is that through this investment of one
stock you're getting exposure to
multiple different sectors because they
are involved in so many different
products I'm using a 3m product right
now I don't know if you guys can see the
logo but 3m owns post-it they got the
logo in the top right there it might be
getting cut off by the camera but
personally in my room here I have many
3m products that I'm using every single
day this right here is an example of
another 3m product I'm using frequently
I have sound padding all around my
studio and this is the general-purpose
45 spray adhesive that 3m makes and I
use this to attach those actual sound
panels to the cardboard so 3m has all
kinds of different products most people
don't even know whether or not a product
is owned by 3m because they just have so
many out there but they have things like
painters tape they have solvents they
have adhesives and I'm gonna go over a
few more examples of that now so first
of all we have consumer goods we have
things like the post-it brand as well as
scotch tape things that people are using
every single day at home and also in
their offices second we have the
healthcare industry they have bandages
they have casting materials they have
dental products and other medical
technology products as well and then
third of all we have the industrial side
of the business they have a lot of auto
products they have adhesives they have
abrasives and they have filters they
have all kinds of different products
that are used in industrial applications
so the main plus for this company is the
consistent operating history there are
very old time-tested durable investment
and it gives you exposure to multiple
different sectors out there through one
investment number four on my list is
actually a REIT a real estate investment
trust and this is the American Tower
corporation they trade under the symbol
AMT now AMT has a p/e of 54 but we're
going to talk about that in just a
second they pay a dividend of 2% and
they have a beta of 0.86 so as we said
the American Tower Corporation is a real
estate investment trust meaning that
they own real estate all over the world
in this case and what they own is cell
towers so they basically rent out cell
towers to major cell carriers now they
have about 40,000 towers here in the
United States but what is more
interesting to me is the fact that they
have over 108 thousand international
cell towers and those international cell
towers are particularly in three
different areas that is Latin America
India in Africa three emerging markets
so what I like about American Tower
corporation as it gives you a lot of
exposure to global emerging markets and
as these markets are growing there is
expected to be rapid growth in the
telecommunication space as there are
more and more people looking to be
connected to data networks but the big
question you may have is why is this
investment on my list here when they
have a price to earnings ratio of 54 it
is significantly higher than any other
one on my list here and I'm going to
explain to you right now why looking at
the price to earnings ratio is pretty
much useless when you're analyzing
equity REITs or real estate investment
trusts that is because these equity
REITs have a lot of depreciation
expenses when they buy a piece of real
estate they are able to depreciate that
asset over a number of years now these
expenses are not actually costing the
company anything but they are accounting
for them each year so that inflates the
price to earnings ratio as expenses are
higher but again keep in mind these are
not expenses that are actually costing
them anything this is just them
accounting for depreciation so you
really have to throw that price to
earnings ratio out the window when
analyzing any kind of equity REIT so the
reason why I like the American Tower
corporation is because we are all using
more data there are more devices being
connected to the network and that is
putting more demand on the
telecommunications industry and more
carriers are going to need to buy space
on cell towers now when a carrier buy
space on an American Tower corporation
cell tower it is typically a 5 to 10
year contract and one of the best parts
of this is that they have inflation
protection built in so they actually
have a set rate that their rent is going
to increase every single year and it is
going to outpace inflation so American
Tower Corporation has built-in inflation
protection through that increased rate
every single year the other thing is
most of these carriers renew their
contracts they have a very low churn
rate it's about one to two percent so
after that five to 10-year contract
expires most of the telecom companies go
ahead and renew that contract with
American Tower corporation now as a REIT
90 percent of the profits are returned
to shareholders in the form of dividends
and the rest of that money is invested
into new real estate more cell phone
towers that they are able to rent out to
other companies so this is a very
appealing business to me as an investor
and I think it is a suitable investment
for beginners and then fifth and finally
on the list here we have Lockheed Martin
they trade under the symbol LMT they
have a p/e race
oh of 27 they pay a dividend of 2.2% and
they have a beta of 0.69 now for me it
was between Boeing and Lockheed Martin
but I had to kick Boeing off this list
because they have a significantly higher
beta so Lockheed Martin has a beta of
0.69 while Boeing has a beta of 1.65
meaning that Boeing stock is more
volatile than the market and that is why
I don't see this as a suitable
investment for beginners that are
looking for very low volatility Bolling
is still one of my favorite stocks and
one of my top picks for 2018 but for
that reason they did not make this list
for my top picks for beginners so
Lockheed Martin is a global aerospace
defense security and advanced technology
company and their biggest customer is
the United States government in fact 70%
of Lockheed Martin sales in 2017 came
from one customer and that was the
United States government that is what I
love about this company is they benefit
from consistent government spending now
the reason why they are on this list is
because defense spending is expected to
increase over the next two years
significantly so a 15 percent defense
spending increase has been passed for
the US government in 2018 and this is
the largest increase in over a decade
now on top of that we are expected to
see another increase in 2019 as well of
around seven percent so Trump is
requesting a seven percent increase in
defense spending on the 2018 levels for
the 2019 budget but that has not been
passed yet however that 15 percent
increase for 2018 has been passed and
when 70 percent of Lockheed Martin's
sales is coming from the US government
and they're increasing defense spending
by 15 percent I bet you guys can take a
guess what's going to happen to that
company as far as their earnings their
sales and their revenue goes so this
increase in defense spending will
significantly benefit two companies
those are Lockheed Martin and Boeing and
that is why those are two of my favorite
stocks for 2018 but due to the low beta
Lockheed Martin fits on my list here of
stocks for beginners anyways guys that
is all I got for this video if you want
me to do a monthly update on these five
stocks
leave me a comment below because that's
something I'm doing for my other series
on my best picks for 2018 I could do the
same thing but on my best picks for
beginners for 2018 where I update you
guys monthly on the performance of these
stocks and set up a dummy portfolio so
if you guys want to
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