Healthcare: How Many Stocks Should You Own in Your Portfolio?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
You know the market is risky and you shouldn't own just one or two stocks, but you're probably wondering how many stocks you should own. In today's episode, we dig into diversification to help you build a better portfolio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone Christine here just letting you know that the episode you're about to hear was pre-recorded in October |
| 0:05.1 | We're playing it for you on November 22nd just before the Thanksgiving holiday. I'm back in New Jersey with my family and the rest of the team is also out for the rest of the week as well. |
| 0:15.2 | So sadly there won't be any shows released tomorrow, Thanksgiving or Friday, but we will be back to |
| 0:21.9 | normal programming on Monday. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm your host Christine Hargis and I have in studio with me right now |
| 0:34.1 | health care analyst Todd Campbell. Todd welcome to Fool HQ. Christine |
| 0:38.2 | thank you so much for inviting me to come down. It's so great to be on the show |
| 0:41.4 | with you live and in person. |
| 0:43.2 | This is very exciting as our regular listeners have probably picked up on. |
| 0:47.0 | Usually Todd is skipping in, but he is here in Alexandria, Virginia today because we're having |
| 0:52.4 | our annual writers |
| 0:53.6 | conference where all of the pool.com writers come in for a couple of days of |
| 0:58.4 | meeting each other and meeting the in-house gang and doing a bunch of workshops |
| 1:02.4 | and we are about to kick it off in a few |
| 1:04.6 | hours and we're very excited to have you all here. |
| 1:07.1 | Oh it's just such a wonderful opportunity to connect with all the great people that work for |
| 1:10.9 | the fool and fellow writers you know for health care and be able to just kind of share our |
| 1:15.4 | experiences and what we think about certain things and I'm sure that we're going to get some really |
| 1:20.1 | great articles out of some of those conversations. |
| 1:23.4 | Absolutely, and I can't wait to read them. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, it's always a really good opportunity to talk shop with people. |
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