We’re buying more of a hard-hit stock in our portfolio
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We purchased 25 shares PayPal (PYPL) at roughly $191.41 each Monday morning, shortly after the Jim Cramer is the CNBC Investing ClubNewsletter was sent. After the trade, 675 PayPal shares were acquired by the Charitable Trust. PayPal gained an additional 3.02% weight from the portfolio with this purchase.
We call this buying at large. See, when you own a stock with sellers who come back day after day with little regard to price, a disciplined way to manage a position like this is to spread out buys across levels.
We try to increase our share count every 5%-10% per share when we go into wide-scales mode. You must fight against the temptation to purchase every dip regardless of how convinced you are in the fundamentals. After all, who knows when they will end? We use a broad scale rules-based approach. We keep to our standards and remove the emotions from a difficult, falling knife situation whose basic facts are not accurately being presented in the market.
With shares of PayPal down a disappointing ~10% since our last purchase on Nov. 15, despite no change in the fundamental outlook (there was a downgrade by Bernstein last Wednesday but we believe the issues raised by the analyst were already reflected in the stock), our next level has been hit and we will unemotionally add to our position.
PayPal is a positive company. because the ex-eBay growth rates are encouraging, and merchant adoption is supportive of longer-term growth as PayPal checkout is now available at 75% of the top 1,500 North American and European retailers. The latest Venmo/Amazon partnership should increase monetization rates.
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(Jim CramerThe’s Charitable Trust was long AMZN, PYPL.
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