In 2022, a market anomaly investors had never seen before hit.
It was the first year in history that both stocks and bonds fell double-digits together.
As a result, millions were stunned to see their portfolios take a huge hit seemingly out of nowhere.
For many investors heavily invested in speculative investments, non-profitable tech, crypto, SPACs, and meme stocks, it felt like another Great Depression.
I’ve heard from many people who lost 50%, 60%, or even 70% in their retirement accounts, including family and friends.
If you fall into that category, I have good news for you.
At Intelligent Income Daily, we’re focused on finding you safe and reliable income-producing investments. And we leverage our team’s combined years of research and experience to help rescue the financial dreams of people like you who have suffered massive setbacks.
That’s because we’ve been there before. And we’re living proof that you can come back from destruction, and it doesn’t have to take multiple decades.
Today, I want to share with you how it’s not too late to rescue your portfolio from painful mistakes and where to find safe profitable picks moving forward. I’ll even share the name of one company that can help you get there.
Learning My Lessons Early
I started investing at the age of 9, during the tech bubble of the 1990s. It was a giddy time when even doctors and lawyers were quitting their jobs to day trade their way to champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
Companies with no plans to make a profit were doubling or even tripling on IPO day as long as they had “.com” in their name.
The Nasdaq went up 825% in five years, and doubling your money seemed possible every year. In fact, that was my plan when I invested my pocket money savings in a tech stock called Network Appliance (NTAP) at age 13.
This company had more than doubled every year for a decade. So I bought it, in the hopes of a more than 1,000X increase.
I made 20% in my first month and felt like a stock market genius.
I asked my mother, “What will I do with my trillions?” in all earnestness.
Later, I learned that I paid 400 times earnings for NTAP. For context, the Nasdaq has a 15-year average price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 21. I’d paid 2,467% more than that.
But I didn’t even know what a P/E ratio was… and few people even cared at the time.
Oh, if only I knew back then what I know now. Simply put, most individual stocks turn out to be disasters, especially if you pay absurd amounts for them.
(Source: JPMorgan Asset Management)
In the tech crash of 2000 to 2002, the stock market was cut in half, tech stocks fell 82%, and NTAP fell 95%.
I consider myself lucky to have “only” lost 50% of my life savings at the time. Even today, 23 years later, NTAP is down 45% off its tech bubble highs.
But the lessons I learned from that disastrous first trade ultimately helped rescue my future retirement dreams.
Learn How to Keep Your Wealth
I would love to tell you that I learned my lesson at the tender age of 13, and ever since, I’ve been practicing prudent and smart investing.
But it actually took me 15 years trying every get-rich-quick scheme under the sun before I finally became religious about the right way to get rich and stay rich.
Just like millions of others, I tried day trading, commodity speculation, momentum trading, currencies, options, and crypto during this period.
I lost and made several fortunes, including as much as $150,000 in a single day.
But the lessons I learned are now permanently seared into my soul. I finally realized, it’s not how much you make that matters. The only thing that matters is how much you keep in the end.
And when it comes to building life-changing wealth over time, nothing beats dividend blue-chips.
As you can see above, dividend-paying stocks will give you a much higher return even after just one year.
To make this comparison more concrete, below is a breakdown of what would happen if you invested $100,000 into either dividend payers or non-payers over the next 20 years.
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After 1-year: $108,570 (dividend non-payers) vs. $112,790 (dividend payers)
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After 5-years: $150,851 (dividend non-payers) vs. $182,538 (dividend payers)
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After 10-years: $227,561 (dividend non-payers) vs. $333,201 (dividend payers)
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After 20-years: $517,841 (dividend non-payers) vs. $1,110,227 (dividend payers)
Even after year one, there is a significant $4,000 difference between these two investment strategies. And the gap grows exponentially over time.
By focusing on high quality dividend blue-chips, you can save your retirement portfolio if you were one of those unfortunate souls whose portfolio suffered in 2022.
And I’m saying that because I’ve done it and helped others do it, too. Below is the story of how I saved my best friend Sean’s retirement portfolio.
Dividend Blue-Chips to the Rescue
Simply put: A diversified set of high-quality blue-chips stocks can save your portfolio – from even the worst losses.
One name I’ve been following for quite some time and am sharing with you today is Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM).
It’s the world leader in computer chips. In fact, about 50% of all chips on earth are made by this company.
Today, TSM yields a safe 2.5% and is growing around 11%. That means over the long-term, it can likely deliver 13% to 14% returns, better than dividend blue-chips have done over the last 50 years.
But thanks to an attractive valuation, it could almost double in the next three years.
And if that has you excited, know that this isn’t even the best blue-chip stock you can buy.
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You can get back up again after a setback like 2022.
If you buy the world’s best dividend blue-chips, making back your wealth and multiplying it isn’t a matter of luck; it’s just a matter of time.
Safe Investing,
Adam Galas
Analyst, Intelligent Income Daily