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The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

IFB282: In Defense of the Top 5 Companies in the S&P 500: Things Investors May Not Know

The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

Andrew Sather

Business, Investing

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast! Today's episode will be a discussion about the top 5 companies in the S&P 500 index specifically on things you may not know about them as a beginner investor. Listen on as Dave and Andrew give interesting facts and tidbits about each companies and how it will propel their value more going forward. Timestamps of the episode: -Apple turns a dollar into three like magic and how it can continue this magic in its business moving forward. [02:10] -Google's stickiness is more "sticky" than you think especially on children today. [08:43] -The amount of cash these tech giants have can be mind boggling and presents a dry powder for ripe opportunities. [14:40] -Microsoft is building behind the scenes platforms that most people don't appreciate much and will be a huge value drive going forward. [16:50] -Amazon web services or AWS as popularly called is a behemoth in cloud services and everybody is playing catch up still until now. [23:20] -Berkshire Hathaway's energy company's scale and size deserves more attention. [28:18] -Dave gives a good advice on beginners in looking to invest in the S&P 500. [33:10] Note: Timestamps may differ and are approximate, depending on your podcast player. For more insight like this into investing and stock selection for beginners, visit stockmarketpdf.com  SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | Tunein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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