Acerca de la inclusión de VZ en la cartera de alguien, en función de los objetivos.
"I can only speak for myself.
I think these discussions don’t look at the big picture, we seem to isolate and nit-pick an item or two when in reality it takes a number of pieces to come together to build a desirable portfolio.
I also have to deal with my own insecurities and fears. Having been through three recessions and a number of corrections, I’ve experienced the damage that can be done with portfolio values. In fact, there was a discussion on that earlier today about the fear of losing 20-30% of one’s portfolio value. A week or two ago we were discussing drawdowns and what we might do during the next market correction.
Well, in dealing with drawdowns, it is a known fact that many more growth companies lose their market value than do value companies during recessions. Part of the reason for that is that growth companies are priced in at higher performance expectations and when those expectations aren’t realized, the price takes a steeper cut.
Owning recession beaters is part of building a portfolio, and in some cases that requires owning high yield, low growth companies. One of the criteria I look to use to help minimize the drawdown is to keep the portfolio beta at a low number. The lower the number under 1.0, the less price volatility the portfolio is supposed to have.
When it comes to capital gain growth, I don’t know how to generate that. I’m at the mercy of the market. If I have certain expectations and those expectations haven’t been realized when the time has come, I don’t get to take a mulligan and get a do over.
I can control to a certain point the types of assets and companies I buy, my portfolio yield, my portfolio dividend growth, and my portfolio beta to meet certain expectations and be able to insure that at least those goals are met. As to price growth, I have to pray to the stock gods that it will follow in time. I can’t take credit for that.
Now when I look at all of that criteria and put the pieces together, then I may very well have a place for a company like VZ or T for that matter. They serve a certain function. To what degree they serve is up to the portfolio owner and the goals they establish for themselves.
VZ or T for that matter may not have a place in your portfolio but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a place in the portfolio of others. It’s not my place to tell them their goals are wrong. If I can share an idea or two in how to utilize those assets to help them meet their goal I’ll do that, but I rarely tell someone to sell something and replace it with another. I simply ask them if it is doing what it is they expected it to do and if not, they have a decision to make, not me.
From my perspective it’s not important that I understand what others are doing or not, I try to focus in on whether what they say relates to me or not and if the answer is yes, I’ll go to work making a plan to utilize the concept or idea they speak of.
As I have said many times, what I do may not be for everyone and what I sell in one portfolio, I may be buying in another. It all comes down to personal goals and expectations, and if those expectations are far more than is needed, who are we to question those motives. It’s not our portfolios."