Andy Cross
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Podcast Appearances
I'll say seven years for the S&P and I'll say 12 years for the NASDAQ.
Yeah, as a person who owned Microsoft through those dark days and then eventually sold it about a year before Satya Nadella took over and then the stock took off.
And then I finally bought back into it a few years later.
Gosh, $10,000 in Microsoft in 2000 would be worth today?
Man, I'm so bad at this.
It took 14 years.
I think it took 14 years for Microsoft to recover is my guess.
It's got to be a 50 bagger.
I mean, it was a penny a share, because I know in Stock Advisor, our call space, this is David's call space, this is like pennies.
Long-term, it's a slugging percentage game, really.
Across diversified portfolio lists, those mega winners drive the bulk of the return.
Studies show this time and time again.
But most investors, I think, are trying to much more focus, at least in the short-term, on batting average.
They don't want to lose money.
They want singles and doubles.
Well, team, let's talk about a company that most people use and may know if you wear a uniform at your place of work.
And that is Cintas, symbol C-T-A-S.
Company has been around for years and years and years.
It was family founded and family and a father-son run combination.