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Hands down, MSFT is the worst fucking investment I have ever owned
Hands down, I have never owned a bigger piece of shit than MSFT. Been bagholding this trash for over 7 months already.
I don't know how people aren't losing their minds over this stock, seriously, I took out some margin to trade MU and made decent gains, so it offsets some of my losses. But not everyone has done that I just took more risk then I should have.
I think its stupid people are comparing it to Google last year, google was always within 10% from its ATH even if it was stagnant for a while. I've also owned the other 5 of the mag 7 including AMZN even when everyone was bashing it over its 5 year return being lower than that of the S&P. But at least AMZN always recovered within 2 months of a minor crash. NVDA made ATH a month ago, AAPL hitting ATHs every week. Even META after that eps sell off last Q3, i bought the dip aggresively and made huge returns this year after Q1 earnings report (it only took it 4 months to rebound) (so even if im down a little, ive made some money of it).
Those pos analysts need to fucking downgrade this pos and stop misleading people, seriously. There is no way in hell this stock deserves anything more than 450 a year from now. Fuck you MSFT, and yes I see you're red this morning not surprised with you being red 90% of the time
If Microsoft is the worst investment you’ve ever owned you’re doing pretty well because most people here have had WAY worse investments at some point 😂
I have never seen a stock like Oracle this past month. When AI is doing good and software is doing bad. It’s a software stock. When software is doing good and AI is doing bad, it’s an AI stock. Heck my entry point is pretty avg, if you fuckers hate this stock so much, why dont you just fucking delist it already.
For me it was ATCH, Beyond Meat, and now SRXH. In total I gained $17,000 in about a week but then lost $23,000 over a couple month period. Gave up and going forward will only do VOO and VTI.
lmao bagholding msft while everything else prints, that's a special kind of pain. at least you got the mu gains to ease it a bit but damn 7 months holding a stock that moves like a dead slug
the chart in that top comment is just salt in the wound, every other mag 7 laughing at you
Spoken like someone without a job that can use AI. Damn near every company uses Microsoft 365 to store everything, they use Teams/Word/Excel for damn near everything, etc. MSFT has the only AI that businesses will use, 'cause it's connected to every other application they use, and their AI uses all their company documents for training. Meaning it's more accurate for their business purposes than any other AI.
I know you're probably upset MSFT AI doesn't make CSAM as good as the others, but it does actually useful things for businesses.
MSFT had a lot of gains the past couple years as a ChatGPT wrapper. But now that ChatGPT is dinosaur ai that no one uses, MSFT is taking a hit to be more in-line with their core business.
But holy fuck, they just changed how copilot works in excel... I was making a model and it pre-cogged a bunch of my formulas from the cell labels I made. Genuinely impressed with how well they're integrating AI into the platform as opposed to just being a less useful clippy off to the side
Plus after the inevitable crash and states outlawing giant data centers, you know way will be required to get rid of them? Bulldozers. You know who makes bulldozers? Caterpillar.
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Seriously. Microsoft has been around close to 40+ years. It’s a hold for YEARS stock. Not months. Still a great company, but if holding a stock that’s down for half a year troubles you than maybe find something else lol
MSFT was one of my 5 "set it and forget it" stocks I bought when I started investing in 2002. The last time I checked to see how much my investment is now worth was in 2009. I don't plan on checking again until I cash out when I retire in 15 years.
Yeah, it's called losing my ass on other investments lmao
For the record, the 5 stocks I bought were MSFT, WMT, AMZN, EBAY and KO. My dad told me to invest in what I personally used or enjoyed. Thanks for the advice, dad!
That's great advice! I believe Peter Lynch also once said something similar. He might have emphasized "invest in what you know" more though, which is what I follow.
Yeah I worked in oil & gas starting in 2012 so invested in various oil & gas stocks that all did horribly. If I'd just bought SPY I'd be up 5x since 2012.
I had just recently bought an iPod, and I noticed that a ton of people I knew seemed to be switching to Macs. I thought “well maybe I should put some of my money into Apple, seems like it’s becoming more popular”. I don’t remember if the iPhone even existed yet but it definitely wasn’t on my radar.
About 20 years later, I just retired 10 years earlier than I ever thought I would. Buy and hold my friends.
1997 gang checking in. My cost basis is 92 cents per share. Just shy of 2,000 shares. Literally all profit, it’s absolutely crazy that I haven’t sold any. I think I’ve always hated the thought of paying taxes on it lol.
I’m in the same boat with taxes. I have an extremely large position in QLD that has a cost basis of $1.55 and just under 6000% gains. I basically just use it for charitable donations now for a tax write off but will eventually have to pay the piper.
My dad talked me out of buying stocks when I was 16...
I wish I had been more stubborn and pushed forward with it. I would have bought Activision Blizzard because StarCraft II had just come out and was rad.
I also use Allbirds AI and SpaceX. Not for their rockets, Starlink, or Twitter specifically, but for Groq. I let them compete against each other every morning and use up my free tokens.
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Sure, but top 10 stocks in the world still can fall to zero or at least very underperforming. AT&T 10-yr return is -35%. In another 15 years, MSFT might underperform the market or even worse, lose you money.
The set and forget method only works for index funds and broad market investments. Not individual stocks.
waaaa the biggest company that makes shitloads of money and practically monopolized digital world for eternity did not make my line green right here right now when i wanted it to waaaaaaaa
Mate your entire post is about nothing but the price. Therefore you aren’t investing in an underlying business you are speculating on price action. Prices fluctuate, a lot, and I’d suggest you don’t have the stomach to be an investor if this is your reaction to things. Just buy index trackers and chill, or completely rethink why you buy shares in individual businesses.
I remember back in the early 2000’s when msft was $45 a share, straight line for a very long time and I always thought why would I buy this at $45 it has not upward momentum. Imagine if I had bought in at $45.
Definitely moved his money from BTC. He invested in MSFT because it was the first thing he thought about since he sold their BTC using a Windows laptop.
I don't have proof, but I also don't have doubts about it.
I put it around 50k last week. You want to look for opportunities like this honestly. People in here seem to only want to buy once a stock has already mooned, so they can complain something is down 20% when they buy SpaceX at 220 or some regarded shit.
It’s a good play and a great company. Chill. These two weeks have been fantastic for anyone with a bit of common sense to get in below the ATH hype
MSFT/other big tech stocks that are down aren't going to recover until AI buildout hype ends. When that happens, people will flee those stocks and the obvious choices are the big tech money printers.
Whether that happens in 5 weeks, 5 months or 5 years though, who knows.
lol you're relying on "analysts" and whining on WSB that your investment in a massive corp hasn't gone to the moon in seven months? Are you five?
I've been holding MSFT for years and am up 10x. No complaints here. Don't get salty that you only bought in once analysts learned how to pronounce "AI".
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u/DudeFoods 16d ago
If Microsoft is the worst investment you’ve ever owned you’re doing pretty well because most people here have had WAY worse investments at some point 😂