I wasn’t trading the markets back in the early 2000s.
Being a young kid, the only exposure I had was Sunday trips to the coffee shop with my dad.
He would often walk me through the stock prices in the newspaper.
At the time, shares of Apple only cost about $0.25…
Nvidia traded for less than $1…
And at one point, you could buy Amazon stock for under $10 a share.
As it turns out, those were great entry prices for some of the best U.S. companies.
The same once-in-a-generation buying opportunities are playing out again.
Major companies like Zoom, PayPal and Zillow have seen their share prices fall over 75%.
Drawdowns of this nature are painful. And some companies will never see their share prices recover…
But those that do will go on to see massive returns.
It Was Like the Peak of the Dot-Com Bubble
Between 1995 and 2000, the number of internet users rose over 20X, reaching 361 million.
The growth was clear as day. And investors couldn’t buy into internet stocks quick enough.
Their excitement pushed valuations to extremes, even for companies that were losing money.
If a business put “dot-com” in its name, its stock was sure to rocket upward.
Investors’ giddiness in recent years created a similar scenario. Except this time investors flooded into innovation stocks.
Like the internet at the peak of the dot-com bubble, the momentum in today’s biggest tech trends is clear as day.
- Intellia eliminated a disease-causing gene inside the human body for the first time.
- Waymo and Cruise successfully launched self-driving taxi fleets in select markets.
- New-build solar and wind became cheaper than fossil fuel plants in more than two-thirds of the world.
These technologies will disrupt trillion-dollar markets like health care, transportation and energy.
But like the dot-com bubble, investors’ excitement pushed valuations to extreme levels.
This created a new bubble: the innovation bubble.
Now, with the prices of many Nasdaq stocks well off their highs, it’s clear that the innovation bubble has burst.
(Source: Bloomberg.)
When a bubble bursts, HUGE buying opportunities arise.
As I said before, not every stock will rebound.
But if you sift through the rubble, you’ll find great opportunities to buy into the companies of the future.
Ian King and I have been doing just that in Strategic Fortunes.
We’re using the weakness in innovation stocks to buy into tomorrow’s leading companies.
Regards,
Research Analyst, Strategic Fortunes
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