StephenMcBride

StephenMcBride

The US government recently announced it will launch an investigation into “big tech.” It is looking into whether Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), and Facebook (FB) are too powerful and should be broken up. These are the 3rd-, 4th-, and 6th-largest companies on earth. Combined, they are worth over $2 trillion. And they’ve grown 470%, 175%, and 95% over the past five...

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What do an iPhone and Nike sneakers have in common? Both are made by iconic American companies. Both are also made in China. American goods used to be made in America. Then cheap labor transformed China into the “world’s factory.” Today we get 80% of our air conditioners, 70% of TVs, and 60% of shoes from China. But there’s one disruptive area that America...

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Today we’ll bust a big lie about investing. This big lie keeps many investors down. Belief in it is a tall hurdle to building wealth. How many times have you heard a statement like this? “The only way to make big profits is to take big risks.” This is the conventional wisdom. It gets repeated in classrooms, on TV, and by stockbrokers over... and over... and...

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My longtime readers know 5G is the most disruptive force of the decade. In short, 5G will supercharge America’s wireless networks. It will give us internet speeds 1,000x faster than today’s. This will open up a whole new world of disruption. Think of 5G as a “tool” that will enable tomorrow’s disruptive businesses, one of which I revealed in my free special...

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Banks have grown very, very rich in the last 30 years—thanks to their privileged monopoly position. JPMorgan Chase (JPM), America’s largest bank, has grown profits by 2,000%+ in the last 30 years. Bank of America (BAC), the second-largest American bank, has seen its profits surge 4,700%. JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America are the 10th- and 13th-biggest public...

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Last year, half of Americans aged 22 to 45 watched zero hours of cable TV. And almost 35 million households have quit cable in the past decade. All these people are moving to streaming services like Netflix (NFLX). Today, more than half of American households subscribe to a streaming service. The media calls this “cord cutting.” This trend is far more...

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Uber’s IPO is the biggest IPO since Facebook (FB) went public in 2012. It marks the first time individual investors can buy this beloved company. IPOs carry a special allure. Investors dream of “getting in on the ground floor” and riding the stock to 20X–30X profits. But collecting profits of 20X or better is possible if you identify disruptive stocks early...

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On April 12, Disney (DIS) took a massive leap. The stock jumped 12% in a single day. Big, safe stocks like Disney don’t often move 5% in a day, let alone 12%. And Disney isn’t a small, medium, or even large company. It is a giant company. It’s the 18th-biggest publicly traded American company—bigger than Coca Cola, McDonald’s, and Wells Fargo. Let me explain...

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Take a look at its 720% surge since 2016. Now I know you might be thinking: Stephen, this stock has already had a heck of a run… why buy it now? I understand the concern. But when investing in truly disruptive companies , this way of thinking is often a mistake. From 2009–2013, Amazon (AMZN) stock gained 680%. Most so-called “experts” said the easy money had...