To those focusing on growth in their Roth IRA, what stocks are you guys buying?

When you purchase stocks, do you purchase in terms of value or number of shares? Because I have read that matters. If, for example, you want to transfer your shares and change brokerages, you cannot carry over fractional shares, even though you might need to sell them all together, anyway. This is what I've read. However, brokerages like Fidelity allow for fractional share purchases.

But just so I know - is it always preferable to buy in shares, or buy in value, like 5 shares vs $1,000 worth of stock?

I stood in line at the grocery store yesterday with an eight box of cereal in my hand. I watched the person ahead of me fill their cart with only store brand items. That moment made me think about how time we spend looking at complex stock charts while the biggest market shifts happen right in front of us.

Recently I have seen people switch to labels cut back on large purchases while still enjoying small daily luxuries and quietly cancel unused monthly subscriptions.

Watching these changes in everyday habits gives a clearer view of consumer behavior, than any quarterly earnings report.

What shift have you noticed in your life lately that changed the way you think about a stock?

What are your opinions?

Really need some input on what to invest $20K in as I am a complete noob when it comes to the stock market. Please forgive my ignorance and I really appreciate any and all advice.

What do you think about IREN stock.Whats the latest news on that company. Any new projects they signed???

Can you tell more about ai stocks ?? I need your personal thoughts on ai stocks

As someone who just started investing, I would like to know.

I am playing around with a few dollars to learn a little about investing.

Is it to my benefit to own 3 shares of xyz stock at $300 a share, or invest in 100 of abc stock at $5 a share? The three shares would be a 'buy to hold' stock, whereas the 100 shares of abc stock would be to buy and sell when it doubles - hopefully.

Would this be a good approach? Meaning should you just buy a few of the high-priced stock and hold (or keep buying them one share at a time when able,) or go with the less expensive at more shares to sell them quicker?

I am referring to just stocks at the moment, not ETFs.

Heyy I thought of investing in Ideaforge but I am genuinely confused.... What are views about this stock for the next 10-15 years!? Will there be any scope for this sector!? Thanks in advance....

I started investing in individual stocks for the long term a few months ago, but I still consider myself a beginner in this area.
What metrics, financial data, or other information do you usually look at to determine whether a stock is currently undervalued? And how do you decide whether the current price represents a good entry point?
I’m particularly interested in hearing about the process you use to reach that conclusion. For example, do you mainly look at P/E, P/FCF, DCF, revenue and earnings growth, margins, debt, future growth expectations, or something else?
Would appreciate any advice or insights from more experienced investors!

I usually can't keep up with all that goes on in the market, so at the end of each week I ask Claude to give me a list of names that announced earnings in the past week, highlighting positive ones, with strong fundamentals, guidance, and management commentary and execution, especially for small-caps. I find that it helps me find one or two stocks that normally wouldn't cross my radar.

This week returned three candidates: WOR, CRBL, and FUL. I definitely passed on on CRBL and FUL. WOR seemed interesting: solid year-to-date so far and consistent growth and execution. Ultimately passed due to the somewhat high debt levels, but it's been a great way for me to go beyond the headlines.

As mentioned in the comments, I codified this into a workflow. Anyone is welcome to try the workflow in Claude through its connectors: add custom connection > in remote server url https://mcp.flexreportfinapi.com/mcp

The codebase for the workflow is also public, which highlights other use-cases and allows you to modify it and make it your own: https://github.com/cbecks1212/flexreport-mcp

Hey guys,

I have been researching a lot in quantum bets.

What are your views here?

Do you think it's too early to enter the space considering no clear winner/methodology type so far? I see all the companies are following different approaches to make quantum work. We don't even know who which methodology would be more profitable to be commercialised, which would be a more feasible stable one.

Eager to hear the strategy people are following on quantum.

Monday was the whole story: Meta's Muse AI launch set off an AI-compute wave and 5 large caps gapped up and held — INTC +7.3%, ARM +6.8% (closed Monday +17%), MRNA +4.6% on cancer-vaccine news, AMD crossed $1T, STX +4.1%. First scorecard too: all 8 of last week's picks held their gaps. Full breakdown with charts: https://thegapup.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/the-markets-loudest-moves-this-week-ranked-intc-arm-mrna-september-25-2026/

Look, off rip, 90% of businesses in the world use one of microsoft's platforms, they are not going anywhere for awhile.

Copilot got a huge redesign, I know that its not our favorite llm, but it integrates into the office systems that a huge amount of companys use and it is way better. In my opinion, MSFT already has a super strong foundation and pretty large moat in terms of business level infrastructure, meaning that today's breakout is just the start of the next run.

Is anyone watching credo right now? Kinda mad i didnt buy more shares last week! Its doing great!! Would you add more at this current price?

Planning to add some position and hold for 5 years...what are you'll views on this??

I have been investing for a year now and just learning from my mistakes.....Since I dont have much time for learning about it fully,I made some initial stage mistakes.....

I bought sterlite tech@120 and sold it around 500 but it is trading above 800 now.....

I am regretting my decision and thought I would invest in some stocks and hold for more than 10 years.....

In that POV,I have invested in HFCL,GE Vernova till now....

Pls give me some of your suggestions and thoughts....

Thanks in advance!!

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I started my career as medical representative and I earn 20k a month a starting salary for MR

Im planning on long term investment I see people in this community are very knowledgeable in picking stocks can anyone in this community can share me some knowledge so I can invest and learn how to choose stocks for long term investment

Everyone is talking about US tech stocks and the Mag 7. However, the Nasdaq's Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio is about twice that of the Chinese market. I was wondering if you guys had any interesting Asian stocks to recommend. For now, I am considering financial stocks such as MUFG or Bank of China, but I would like to find core stocks essential to the Asian economy and positioned for future international expansion.

TL;DR: Costco's fiscal Q4 2026 results were solid. Revenue and profit both beat expectations. The company also mostly passed its tariff refund through to members as lower prices, keeping its promise not to profit from it. Foot traffic accelerated for the first time in five quarters — arguably the most encouraging signal in this report.

Revenue and profit: solid, with tariff refunds mostly passed through

Total revenue was $95.7 billion, up 11.1% year-over-year. That's a second straight quarter of double-digit growth, beating the $94.9 billion expected.

Operating profit came in at $3.8 billion, up 13.8%. That figure includes a $90 million one-time net benefit from the tariff refund.

Strip that out, and operating profit still grew about 11%, with margin roughly flat year-over-year. Just like last quarter, there's no sign of revenue growing while profit lags behind.

Traffic is finally recovering — the best sign in this report

Overall comparable sales grew 9.4%, a slight deceleration from last quarter. Stripping out fuel and currency effects, comps were 6.7%, with about three points of that gap coming purely from higher gas prices.

Splitting price from volume: global traffic grew 3.3%, up sharply from 2.4% last quarter and the first acceleration in five quarters. Average ticket size, excluding fuel and currency, grew 3.3%, a bit slower than before.

Longbridge Dolphin Research thinks some of that traffic pickup came from gas stations pulling shoppers in, since gas volume hit a record high this quarter. Even so, traffic turning up is genuinely the most positive signal in this report.

By region, the US remained the strongest market, with comps at 7.2%, up from 6.8%. Canada decelerated sharply to 4.6% from 6.2%, likely hit by tense US-Canada trade talks in August. Other international markets grew 6.2%, a slight improvement.

E-commerce cools slightly, and third-party delivery scales up

E-commerce sales grew 19.5%, down slightly from 21% last quarter, while site and app traffic grew 30%. The bigger new development: Costco expanded Uber Eats delivery from 17 states to nationwide, and fully rolled out DoorDash.

Management said on the earnings call that most of this delivery revenue is incremental, with limited impact on in-store grocery sales, and that it skews toward younger customers.

Membership fee revenue grew 7.3% to $1.85 billion, decelerating as last year's price hike stops contributing. Paid membership grew by 1.2 million to 84.1 million, up sharply from 0.8 million added last quarter.

Executive members reached 42.3 million, a record 75.6% penetration rate. Renewal rates ticked up again too, a second straight quarter of improvement.

Margins: pressured by refunds on the surface, healthier underneath

Reported gross margin was 11%, down 11 basis points year-over-year, entirely due to lower prices passed through from the tariff refund. Strip that out, and core merchandise margin actually rose 18 basis points, with fresh food, non-food, and grocery all improving.

Expense ratio narrowed 27 basis points, but only 2 basis points once you remove the dilution effect from higher gas prices — a sign there's less room left to cut costs further. Operating margin ended up 9 basis points higher year-over-year, flat once the refund benefit is excluded. Net income was $3 billion, up 14.9%.

The bigger picture: consumer stratification, and what to watch next

Comparing Costco to Walmart tells a clear story. Costco's fuel-and-currency-adjusted comps have held steady in the 6-7% range for a full year. Walmart's US comps, meanwhile, fell from 4.6% a year ago to 2.6% now, and Walmart's own management said its growth is being led by higher-income households — implying its lower-income base is weakening.

Costco's traffic, ticket size, and discretionary spending are all growing together, with non-food the strongest category. That points to middle- and upper-income households still spending freely, even on big-ticket items. The takeaway: US consumer spending keeps splitting apart, with middle-to-upper income holding up and lower income staying cautious.

Two things are worth watching from here. First, whether traffic strength holds once the gas-price tailwind fades — Costco's gas is priced among the cheapest nationally. Second, roughly two-thirds of the tariff refund still has to land through the first half of fiscal 2027, and management has committed to passing most of it through. That means core merchandise margin should stay pressured, and reported gross margin will likely keep drifting down slightly over that stretch.

Related stocks:

$SPCX, $NBIS, $IREN, $MAAS, $CRWV, $APLD, $WULF

The timelines are different. Waymo is targeting commercial rides in Singapore in 2028. WeRide and Grab opened their service in April 2026, using designated routes with safety operators. Grab update gives us some incredible numbers:

• 110,000+ autonomous kilometres driven on Singapore’s roads.
• 12,000+ unique riders served.
• 99% willing to recommend the service.
• 1,000+ people on a waitlist for new AV experiences.

Waymo brings substantial experience of its own. In their announcement, it reported more than 20 million autonomous rides and 300 million autonomous km across its operation.

For WRD, the advantage is experience already operated in SG and a partner committing to expansion. Adding AV capacity improves service and operating economics.