Might be good time to buy some AT&T

[Lowexpectations]

GE announces a dividend cuts and drops 6% ytd there's more than a 50% performance spread vs the s&p500

[artillery77]

Originally Posted by mathjak107

if t make's up only 1% of your equity side , first question is why bother to own it as an individual stock ?

it would do nothing for you , in fact general rule of thumb is get rid of anything you have less than 5 % of and even that is questionable ..

unless you want to rule out individual company risk like a mutual fund does and then you own hundreds or thousands of stocks with very small pieces of each .

you are not a mutual fund are you with small holdings of many many many individual stocks ?. .

A rare disagreement with you on this point. Keeping holdings small in many individual stocks is fine so long as you remember why you bought them and can keep track of them.

[mathjak107]

not for those who have little investing knowledge . as you see here ,many complain how they bought a few issues and lost a lot of money

[IDtheftV]

Originally Posted by artillery77

A rare disagreement with you on this point. Keeping holdings small in many individual stocks is fine so long as you remember why you bought them and can keep track of them.

Originally Posted by mathjak107

not for those who have little investing knowledge . as you see here ,many complain how they bought a few issues and lost a lot of money

Again, you did not read the post you were responding to.

.... BUT .... you got the last word in.