In this episode Scott Becker discusses the volatility of individual stocks like Astera Labs, Palantir, and Microsoft, highlighting recent market fluctuations and reinforcing the case for index funds as a core investment strategy.
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity Business Podcast. We're constantly in this search of looking at this discussion of index funds versus individual stocks, and taking a whole different level, talking about investing in private alternative assets versus individual stocks and index funds.
Chapter 2: Which individual stocks are discussed?
Chapter 3: What recent performance trends are seen in individual stocks?
Chapter 4: Why consider index funds over individual stocks?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity Business Podcast. We're constantly in this search of looking at this discussion of index funds versus individual stocks, and taking a whole different level, talking about investing in private alternative assets versus individual stocks and index funds.
So three of the stocks that we follow individually, because we're investing individually, are Astero Labs, Palantir, and Microsoft. So to give you a sense of this this week, Astero Labs, which is up 8% today, got crushed in the deep sea route on Monday and went down about 30%. So a bad day for individual stock investing.
Palantir continues to recover and seems to be back up about 4% today and is doing pretty well. And again, Astero Labs is up today too. Microsoft, a third stock that we'll talk about here. got crushed yesterday, down about 6%. We've been a long-term investor in Microsoft, so we'll stick with that for the long run.
But always a reminder, when your individual stocks go down 6%, or in the case of a sterile lapse, 30% early this week, that index funds are the way to go for the core of one's portfolio. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Thank you very, very much. Thank you.