Gun (stocks) I Should Have Bought

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DaleA

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Sure we all regret not buying that Colt Python or S&W 27 years ago when they were cheap. And maybe some regret not getting that ‘curly maple’ gunstock for their pre-64 model 70 Winchester. But here I’m talking about the gun stocks wrangled by the three-piece suits on Wall Street.

Company stocks of Ruger and Smith and Wesson rose about 7% today after Obama's speech last night. The Huffington Post also confirmed last Black Friday (Nov. 27, 2015) set a record for number of background checks in one day, about 185,000. (Which was already reported on TFL). Read about it here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gun-sales-stock-prices_5665c565e4b079b2818f5078

As an overall financial investment, since January 2009 Smith and Wesson and Ruger stocks have gone up a whopping (I almost wrote whooping but that would be okay too, I’d sure whoop about an increase like this!) 700% and 800% respectively! Kind of beats what I'm getting from my savings account at my local bank...
http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/07/gun-manufacturer-stock-prices-are-booming-under-obama/

And would this thread be fair and balanced if I didn't mention a push-back article? Despite the near incredible stock price increases in the article above the folk below want you to specifically check out your investments, your retirement funds and 401Ks and shake out any money invested in those nasty old gun companies. Their clarion call is 'Pledge to Unload' and divest, divest, divest of any and all dirty gun and ammo monies!!! (Sounds even eviler if you say 'monies' instead of just 'money'.) The movement is supported, among others, by no lessor a celebrity than Snoop Dogg.

The 'Pledge to Unload':
http://www.theguardian.com/money/us...-investment-portfolio-401k-arms-manufacturers
 
I remember watching S&W stock go up after the 2008 election. What I never quite understood was that S&W claimed they were at max production and had a back log of around a year. (memory may be a little fuzzy on exact details) If they couldn't increase production then sales couldn't really rise and that's what should drive up share prices. I'd be interested to see their sales and profit figures for the last seven years. Did they increase that much?
 
President Obama and this administrations anti gun rhetoric really are the best salespeople for firearms. Whenever they talk about banning something, gun sales - gun company stocks - go through the roof.

I do not hold any single stocks so do not get the benefits when one of these increases significantly.

Regards,

Rob
 

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I know very little about the stock market.
More importantly I KNOW I know very little about the stock market.
It's probably because of this that I still have (some) money to spend on guns.

I remember this old joke about the definition of 'business':

Business--it's an interaction between a man with money and a man with experience. The man with experience gets the money and the man with money gets the experience.
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These would have been better than even gun stocks:

Since January 3, 2000, according to FactSet, Monster -- known as Hansen Natural until January of this year -- has seen a 22,127% rise, placing it at the very top of the list of S&P 500 percentage gainers (it joined the index in June, as Sara Lee bowed out). The second stock on the list, Southwestern Energy Co. (SWN), has seen a rise of just 3,752% -- impressive, sure, but that gain is less than 1/5 of Monster's. To add even more perspective: Apple (AAPL), which recently surpassed Microsoft (MSFT) as the most valuable company ever by market cap (non-inflation-adjusted), has a 6th-place showing on the list, up 2,314% in the same time period.

Granted, Apple was at around $25 a share on Jan 3, 2000, while Monster was trading at a mere $0.27 (split-adjusted). Monster now trades at $59.56, while Apple -- having hit new highs since its victory in the Samsung patent trial -- is at $674. And year to date, Apple's percentage gain is more than double Monster's, at 64% as compared to 28%. But the decade-long performance of super-high-momentum Monster (and its massive 69,283% gain since it went public in August of 1995) is something to ponder. In the past five years, shares are up 164%, and in a two-year span, they have seen a rise of 159%.
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