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Yeah I’m considering TIPS but the yield is shitty and going down in the short term. If it’s looking like rates have bottomed I may buy some. Agreed about REITS, choose wisely but they will continue to pay, if you choose something with a long enough average lease. O would be perfect as a 10% allocation. SCHD is probably a good bet, a quality ETF. One of the ETF’s focussed on FCF (COWZ etc) and VGK. I’m also holding plenty of SGOV, JAAA, a bit of PCN, some emerging market government bonds. If tariffs are bazookered, taxes will need to go up and I’m hoping inflation will be DoA. We can all dream.
Yeah, and you know, he also recommended COWZ etf
3 is not enough for total diversification unfortunately but gun to my head $VT Total Diversification plus international 70% here $COWG Tech diversification away from mag 7 15% here $COWZ Stable company diversification 15% here
Ha - I had never heard of COWZ. Looked it up, it's a decent fund. I might buy it just because I believe the ticker will give my portfolio some good mojo :-
My advisor had me pull out of these on November 15. He explained that even if Trump hadn’t won we are on the tail end of a 20 year run favoring US (S&P) over foreign markets. That trend use to switch back to European and other foreign markets every 5 years until the 90’s. His opinion was that worst case scenario we slightly underperform the S&P, but most likely case is FANG take a huge hit and I stay liquid and able to cash in when there’s blood on the streets. He ended up putting me into some US focused funds like COWZ in addition to more foreign weighted funds.
since you are 19, my best suggestion is to open a Roth IRA investment account, (if you are working) and put whatever you can afford a paycheck either its 20, 50 or 100 into that IRA. Find some ETFs either Voo, QQQ, or COWZ, there are plenty of ETFs out there. if you just continue to do this and try to not take withdrawals. you'd be pretty good set. if you are not working just open a brokerage investment account. and do ETFs
If you cant buy COWZ on moomoo, whats the point?
Thanks for the detailed response! I appreciate the advice on different portfolio strategies. However, I was specifically wondering about whether I should sell my current holdings (AVUV, COWZ, etc.) and consolidate into VTI and VXUS.
Buy COWZ etf don’t go in n out just hold pls
Get out of cash. Plow as much as you can into VOO. Or get a little wild mix in SMH, XMMO, COWZ, CALF.
VOO- fine QQQM- just makes FANG a bigger a chunk of your portfolio. Will do shitty when the tech bull run is over. SCHD- seeking out dividends through and ETF is senseless. Total returns are all that matter. XMHQ- 0.25% ER is a little high. If you want mid cap exposure, why not just get VTI instead of VOO? The ER is 0.03% COWZ- looks like some sort of factor investing bullshit. ER of 0.49% is high. Looks like an expensive gimmick. AVUV- again, if you want some small cap exposure, why not just get VTI instead of VOO? SCHF- fine I would scrap it, and just get a regular 3 fund portfolio. US, international, and bonds (if you want bonds, depending on age). Maybe a small cap value tilt with AVUV if you want to roll those dice (small cap value has, if viewed over a long enough time frame, slightly outperformed the total market, but is not guaranteed to do so in the future. Something like 60% VTI, 30% VXUS, and 10% AVUV.
QQQM suffering from recency bias, look at 2001 2002 performance. There is plenty of AAPL NVDA GOOG in VOO. Don't need SCHD or COWZ. No international? No emerging markets? Why not core mid and small cap like IJH IJR?
All the holdings in QQQM, SCHD, and COWZ are already in VOO. This is essentially 80% large cap, 10% mid cap, and 10% small cap. I'd just stick with VOO, XMHQ and AVUV. You'll also probably want to add some bonds and foreign stocks.
T Bills or low volatility ETF, or maybe something like COWZ, an ETF for big, stable & cash rich companies. In your position with the cushion you have, taking a lesser risk by putting the funds to work in the market is reasonable. But not all at once now, maybe DCA 10k every two weeks until after the election.
There’s different risk levels within equities. Something like COWZ is large cash rich companies. It gets less of a return than an S&P 500 stick but it’s more stable. There’s also low volatility ETFs and equal weight ETFs.
Look at COWZ. It’s out preformed the SPY over the last 5 years if you are interested in small caps.
COWZ out preforming SPY over last 5 years 😳😳
I own CALF and it’s mother COWZ
COWZ is the large cap value version..they both perform pretty in line with each other and have been outperforming the IWM in both directions.
By "news" I figure you mean "market believes/assumes". You shouldn't be listening to the chatter. If you believe in a stock/etf long term then almost any time is fine. And you want to "buy at the bottom" when "rates go down"... Something something something... What bottom exactly is going to form in this scenario? Buy VOO as and when you have money available as long as you still believe in the mid to long term future of the US economy. This is not a secret hot tip. It is a modus operandi based on long term, statistically meaningful data. Furthermore you would do well to add holdings of COWZ and VIG to latch onto cash flow and dividend growth stories.
Is there a thesis on how it will grow ? Otherwise the money goes to COWZ
Edward Jones is meant for people knew nothing about investment that 3.5% fees spoils all plus all the funds suggest have another point for them. Look for a 529 +year of redemption fund for your children. PAVE, COWZ, XSVM and POCT are good bets. I will also add some foreign etfs in case US economy turns sour.
> I'm planning on throwing $20,000 into ETFs-7500 VOO, 5000 SOXX, 2000 SCHD, 1500 QTUM, 1500 PAVE, 1500 COWZ, 1000 HFXI-$10,000 Ok, you *could* do this. Or you could just make your life easy and put 100% into VT which includes all the stocks included in the above ETF. > $10,000 in long-hold stocks like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta, etc. Don't do that. > and $10,000 in CDs Why would you do that
If you’re trying to gain some diversification from the funds available in the TSP then I would consider funds such as: MOAT, MXHQ, AVUV, COWZ, FNDX, IWF, QQQM, DGRO
Avian flu hitting cattle herds in Texas. Puts on COWZ.
Given what you said, get rid of SCHD. Lame return currently, with risk. There are other not very volatile ETFs that have a better return like COWG or COWZ, or get SGOV and lock up a 5.4%ish return that is totally liquid with zero risk. For the second one, VXUS has been doing pitiful because of its China holdings. If you want international, find ETFs with little or zero China exposure, at least as long as both American political parties are trade warring on China. > and then not looking back Always look forward, but don't make yourself a slave to your previous decisions. You can always change your mind if you decide to do something that makes you happier.
Own: COWZ, XSVM, POCT mid cap COWZ There are not growth, cash cow high yield. Lower risk for diversification.
COWZ or SCHD are great value etfs. Now risk look at SGOV or TFLO
what is Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (COWZ)?
SGOV or TFLO are great "no risk" short term treasury ETF's. Buy them around the first of the month after they go ex-dividend. Want more yield go with something like SPHY or USHY for corporate bond ETF. They also pay dividends monthly. Want some opportunity for capital appreciation with income look at COWZ or SCHD for dividend paying stock ETF's
Great that you are thinking about these things! Always keep learning. At your age, I think you should limit your exposure to SCHD. While it's a great ETF, it's not going to grow like VOO. You could look to start moving funds into it when you hit 50 and want to start hedging against a downturn. I would also limit your international exposure. You somewhat get exposure with the S&P500 as most companies trade international (Apple in China!). The international ETF's just have not performed in the last several year. I know that there is a strong presence on Reddit that states that VXUS is a good thing, so you will have to make your own decision on that. I currently invest in SPLG (Large Cap Blend) (50%), SCHD (Large Cap Value) (20%), QQQ (Large Cap Growth) (10%), XMMO (10%) and COWZ(10%) for mid cap exposure. You could try upping your exposure to QQQ in place of SCHD. DCA, DRIP, and time in compounding interest are also key to long term wealth. Happy Investing!
SPGP and COWZ are two interesting ones
Also novice I bought MOO and COWZ in my Roth last year and they’ve been doing pretty well
I'll look into those! Honestly, haven't heard of those before QQQM and VTI. COWZ I want to invest in just because of the name lol
I just checked out COWZ, very cool idea, probably gonna do fairly well
I can't speak for others, but some of my favorites are VTI, QQQM, SCHD, COWZ, and then some FLIN and VXUS for international exposure it's produced pretty good returns for me over the last 3 years I've experimented with other stuff as well.
Divide your money up in 2 parts. Make sure you have 3 - 6 months pay for your emergency fund then you can be more aggressive with the rest. I like COWZ for Dividend growth & IYW if you want to outperform. Most people & financial advisors are too conservative but if you don’t need the money for 10, 20, 30 years then you can be more aggressive as long as you can sleep at night if it drops 30%. But look at long term charts of SPY & it will make you feel better.
I use PRDGX when I invest for my wife & daughter for good returns but lower risk. COWZ is a good ETF that is similar.
CALF was head and shoulders above the others in 2023 but AVUV and RZV/RFV were next best and should become CALF's peers with interest falling. COWZ was disappointing last year because it was too heavily loaded with energy stocks, but looks like the recent rebalance has improved that so its worth keeping an eye on. Despite sucking last year, COWZ is the best performer of this bunch over the past three years. (It isn't small/midcap tho.)
CALF, COWZ, XSVM, POCT etc
I'm 50. And am pushing my retirement to 70. But, if you lost money and are trying to build it back up. Kinda my situation as well. I my current portfolio is 25% SPLG, 25% QQQM, 25% SCHD, 15% COWZ and 10% CALF. I'm really pleased with the returns so far. I stay away from investing in single stocks. Just my preference. In 5-10 years I will start adding bonds once my portfolio grows to where I'm comfortable with it.
4 or 5 funds is all you need at your age. This is my current portfolio. I'M 50 25% SPLG-S&P 500 25% QQQM- LG GROWTH 25% SCHD- LG VALUE 15% COWZ- MC VALUE 10% CALF- SC VALUE In 5 to 10 more years I will start adding bonds.
Dude that cash is earning nothing. Check out JAAA and CLOA. 7%. Triple A CLOs which have never defaulted. BINC and JPiE for high quality bonds with a little duration. The only stocks I own are a few regionals banks I bought in may, reits, COWZ, and GCOW.
Take your profits and diversify. If you don't have a plan, or an approach, and are here asking - even more reason to take the win. We are likely entering a slowdown. Markets are in goldilocks euphoria this month. Don't take that to sell everything. Just sell your peripheral gambles like these and put there somehow stable and better for the long term where you can withstand drawdowns. VOO is great, I'll also give big recommendations to COWZ. GCOW and CALF if you care to diversify internationally or for small caps.
So, first, your premise is wrong. Falling interest rates do NOT generally lead to higher equity values. The fed most often only cuts aggressively when the economy is in serious trouble. 0-1% FFR is not stimulus. High unemployment and credit contractions are far more impactful to corporate earnings. The answer to your question is dependent on your timeline. If this is money you can invest for AT LEAST a decade: Yes, put it all in VOO. If this is money you want to be liquid within 5-10 years, consider putting half in VOO (or COWZ) and half in BINC or JAAA. If this is money you might need very soon, do not even consider it. Needing $130k soon is probably unlikely right? It is most likely in your best interest to DCA into higher returning assets. Just don’t think falling FFR and a recession make it some amazing time to buy equities which are on the upper bounds of historical valuations. Be bullish America, but on a long time frame.
If this is going to be judged on short term performance, dude, TAKE YOUR PROFITS. After this performance with these economic risks, and 5.5% FFR, what else do you want?? Take profits and redeploy into QQQ, VOO, or my favorite, COWZ.
I like $COWZ similar but better weighted
COWZ FCF/EV which is actually well documented to outperform.
Put their money into a brokerage account and put the whole thing into SGOV USFR or something similar. Each month buy $500 or VOO or QQQ or COWZ. If and when the market dives to more reasonable valuations, start to load up. This all assumes they are on board with the risks and rewards. If not, don’t touch it.
Also COWZ. Need to diversify from the Magnificent 7
Look at Pacer cash flow etfs, COWZ, ICOW, ECOW, etc.
Look at Pacer cash flow etfs. COWZ, ICOW, ECOW, etc.
JAAA A couple regional banks and PACWP Opportune positioning in COWZ, equal weight S&P, small caps Opportune purchase of select reits and high cash flow companies
Investors buying equities from 1999 to 2009 (eleven years) were still underwater after over a decade of investing. Just be glad you weren’t here going all in during 2006 or 1998. Sure, the same could happen now, but then again it might not. That’s the game. That’s the risk we’re paid for. I would advise to owning cheaper equities like VBR or cash flow quality companies like COWZ. My “cash position earns over 7% in JAAA. Once spreads widen, FRA is a great play in the high yield space.
Valuations are too stretched to sleep well with equities that are not objectively cheap. $COWZ $CALF $IWM are the only long term ones I’d hold right now. I don’t expect the major indexes to outperform bonds. A great sub for cash is JAAA the fund yields over 7%
SCHD is great. Also check out COWZ, you won’t be disappointed
If you are looking for cash flow companies check out the ETF [COWZ](https://www.paceretfs.com/products/cowz) - even if you don’t invest in the fund look through their prospectus and composition to find a lot of solid cash flow companies as that is their primary fund strategy.
Everybody has given plenty of good advice, I will put my 2 cents worth in to this conversation. I do not waste time buying very many individual stocks. Too much guess work involved. You can read a thousand positive articles and still get screwed, Analysts are biased and newsletters are guessing half the time or more. I sleep much better at night with my money in SCHD, OMFL, and COWZ. I have held all for a good amount of time and will probably never sell until I am so old I need the money for my meds. I did get stuck with INTC for a short amount of time because it had a good div so I sold puts then got assigned. I sold at a loss. I sell puts on many stocks just to keep things interesting and have been profitable 80% of the time. The other loss I took this year was on MPW. Everybody including their brother and his cousins and a newsletter that I subscribe too said this was a great stock. I sold puts at a low price with a good premium, got assigned because it tanked and then I sold covered calls a couple of times. Made a small amount back but finally had sense to sell the last time it got above 10. If you are not comfortable with the price swings of individual stocks just don't do it! DCA in to etfs and do not sell!
For equity exposure long term, COWZ, then Nasdaq if/after a crash
MOAT, SPGP, OMFL, COWZ, SPHB, SYLD and others have beaten VOO the past five years and obviously could beat it again.
Partly, but SCHD's factor/secret sauce is dividends. Look into other factor funds like MOAT, OMFL, AVUV, COWZ, CALF. See how they compare given the current times we are in. SCHD has done fine in the past, but specifically this year its mix has been horrific, far worse than the others I just mentioned. In good times, perhaps a 33/33/33 with SCHD would be a good idea (except for the taxes). I owned some SCHD last year. It did alright, but you shouldn't lock yourself into any secret sauce ETF if it's secret sauce is clearly not in tune with the times.
As far as quality screens go? That'll be a little tricky as growth screeners usually look at EPS and its growth, as well as forecasted earnings and such. If that's alright, just grab SCHG and sleep easy. You could look at something like Wisdomtree's new fund, QGRW. Looks at RoA and RoE, trying to find "quality growth". Very new, but matches QQQ over short lifespan. QQQ meets quality screens instead of market cap weighting. IUS has a few more screens, also looking for quality picks. Sp500 meets quality screens instead of market cap weighting. COWZ looks at free cash flow and so probably will have higher dividends than you're looking for. SPGP weighs EPS growth, maybe sales growth too, it's been a bit since I read its prospectus. Then also screens for a discount. All of these look like good funds to the right investor. Maybe they're for you, maybe they aren't. How to know if they're for you? Actually read the prospectus for anything before buying, please. Understand the products you're buying! That last part is to everyone. It's amazing the ridiculous things you read on these subs that a quick prospectus check debunks. Good luck and happy investing!
making bank of $COWZ today, $ICMB fucked me tho
Check out COWZ and SYLD as more expensive competitors. They have better valuations but much more fee drag, I know not exactly the same but they are alternates' to vanilla VOO and growth funds like VONG and they function differently. I know its not exactly what you were looking for. VIG is another more common idea.
COWZ is a good one but it's companies with high FCF
XSD, XLK, QQQ, SPGP. Maybe MOAT, COWZ, OMFL. No need to limit yourself to just one other besides VTI. If we assume there are still times ahead that are not all rainbows and pixies, having different types of ETFs that have different approaches is a good idea (as long as they all outperform the baseline of VTI).
If you have a good job, your current portfolio is pretty awful. SCHD has a good recent five years but has been pitiful year to date. It's quite bad for someone your age to have funds that barely breakeven on total return but give you taxable dividends. If you want to pursue the oxymoron of "safe growth", look at ETFs like SPGP ("growth ate a reasonably price"), COWZ ("cash cows"), MOAT, and SYLD. Or just be simple and let the market do the work 50% VOO/ 50% QQQ.
Check out COWZ and ECOW if you are looking for some easy diversification.
I kinda Like SPGP, COWZ, GLVU, GSPY
My best advice is to just ignore dividends and look at the total return of a stock. If a stock goes up 25% and pays a 2% dividend, who cares about paying the tax? You made a bunch of money. Again, just don't seek them out. The process to set up a portfolio should start with you taking as much time as you need to get comfortable. Don't be in a hurry. A basic starting point is VOO, the ETF of the S&P500. Pay attention to its historic return and current performance. If something doesn't do better than VOO, the only reason to have that other thing is because you see some longterm value in having it (either possible growth or the reverse, something safe to hold onto). Besides that, look into sector ETFs (solar, semiconductors, infrastructure, dirty energy, info tech, etc) and factor ETFs... things designed to outperform both in the longterm in any more difficult environments like now. Examples of these are MOAT (companies with a clear competitive advantage), SPGP ("growth at a reasonable price"), COWZ (cash strong companies), and SCHD (above average price performance combined with above average dividends). Go ahead and follow different ETFs, see how they compare to VOO and each other; make paper portfolios with different combos of ETFs. You got plenty of time to fine tune what you want to do, just get yourself to do it.
To me it looks like: Bonds are super conservative, anticipating bad times. Amazon is still doing worse for a year than the other big five stocks, but is up over 20% for the month... seems like looking for a big score. Anyway, just seemed opposite. Amazon in the long run is a sure thing, but may not be so great short run if things go bad (on the other hand it should be great if things boom). I have SPGP and XSD is the top ETF for the past ten years, so those sound good to me, although SPGP is a defensive stock in my book. :) Also check out COWZ, OMFL and MOAT as ETFs whose factor concept is basically defensive but will perform above average in good markets too. Basically all four of them have performance in the ballpark of QQQ over the past five years, but didn't go in the toilet the past year.
Dividends are not free money. {Repeat} Your thesis here fails simply by mentioning dividends. Assuming you want to make money, the only thing that matters is the total return on what you buy. Some low PE stocks are good, some like Verizon are complete shit. Withe the mindset you have, what you should be looking for are low PE stocks with high performance. Three ETFs, SCHD/COWZ/SPGP, use different formulas to some up with stocks of the type you are looking for. Other ETFs do too, but SCHD, COWZ and SPGP have better records over the past five years... better than SPY but worse than QQQ. If you have the mindset you mention though, those three are the place for you to start.
Thanks for the response. All else being equal low PE's are better than high PE's, and I am a fan of COWZ. Your point about the fund simply being defensive is a good one.
I'm a fan of COWZ. I also like MOAT, QUAL and VIG, as alternative to traditional S&P 500 index funds.
"Is COWZ at risk of investing into many value traps" No. EXXon, Chevron, Paypal, Meta, Cisco, Diamondback, Pfizer, Kroger, US Steel... are not value traps. They also are not all in a similar circumstance. XOM is up 55% for the past year while META is down 54%. I don't know why you are thinking high free cash flow and low p/e are bad things, but most investors think those are valuable attributes. COWZ merely gathers them together. Some stinkers might get in the door, but the fund is just the top 10% of the Russell 1000 that meets the criteria of the fund. It is a fundamentally defensive ETF, but still has outperformed VOO +76% to +55% the past five years, and only underperformed QQQ by 3% during that time frame. It has also outperformed SCHD for the five years and the past six months and one year, so it should either be right at the top of your list of broad defensive ETFs or right up there near the top.
I also like the cashcow funds, COWZ for the main fund, BUL for the growth cashcows, CALF for small cap cashcows and HERD for a fund of fund
COWZ ETF proves this point
Also check out COWZ, a complimentary idea to SCHD... an ETF of high free cash flow stocks. Defensive now but same performance as QQQ for the past five years.
That's true, but you should thinking about making the most money in the long run, not holding the exact same stock the longest. If holding SCHD for one year allows you to buy and own 5% more shares of QQQ a year from now, wouldn't that please you? Dividend funds are generally bad for someone your age anyway, but you could also check out COWZ or SPGP. At minimum, XLK has outperformed QQQ in every timeframe (3m,6m,1y,3y,5y,10y), so consider that.
IVV, VOO, COWZ, VIG, any reputable ETF that’s broad market or invests in companies with solid financial backing, high cash flow, and low debt
I'm thinking about going long COWZ and short QQQ if apple misses. Tech will be completely fucked and COWZ is mainly cash flow like energy/health care so I think it will continue to outperform. Really not sure what to do right now though. Everything is kinda fucked
VIG is one of my favorite long term equity ETFs. Also like QUAL, COWZ and MOAT.
Yeah bonds are not really my thing. Bond investors think they are the smartest people in the room. But equity investors make more money. If you are into Etfs check out COWZ. I think that’s the etf of companies that are cash cows. Spy value is a good one. Spy dividend is really good too. If we go into a deep recession it won’t matter because everything will tank. As of a few days ago i was outperforming the s&p by 2% so i was happy with that
I think FCF is a very important metric. You should check out a couple of ETFs: COWZ and GCOW. They are managed by the same company and the holdings are chosen based on FCF.
It would be, though Biden could always invoke the Defense Production Act with lawyer-created rationales about putting the U.S. on a wartime footing, shipping more natural gas and gas to Europe to strengthen the attempt at enlarging the embargo of Russian oil. Biden won't, but he could. Years later, the now right-wing federal court system would probably restrict this power, but dividends from oil companies would be lower in the meantime. On a slightly related note, I'm thinking about buying the COWZ top cash flow of the Russel 1000 ETF. But, right now, it is extremely heavy on energy stocks. Compared to recent history, U.S. oil companies aren't investing in new refineries and new production. With domestic production, they know that the Saudi's/OPEC can always turn on the pump as soon as U.S. production ramps up, like they did when they crashed production in the Bakken fields. But, there's also no competition among the merger-created oil companies to undercut competitor prices. Instead, there is competition to appeal to the shareholders. The free market is working, but the primary customer is no longer the consumer, but the shareholder. I think there are also probably plenty of current internal memos in the big oil companies that gasoline demand will go down in the next two decades, so there is little point in building new hugely expensive refineries now. I'm a lefty so I have been hesitant to expose myself to big oil with funds like COWZ, but it has slightly outperformed the S&P 500 over the last 10 years. But, as a lefty, I also think oil and gas prices should be high to encourage renewable energy production and battery production when even a natural gas peaker plant is expensive energy. Also, the math on the $~20k cost of gas over the lifetime of a vehicle changes in favor of electric vehicles when energy prices are high. So, part of me doesn't mind that big oil is currently doing a good thing for the wrong reasons. tl;dr: I think I'll probably buy COWZ.
Lmao one ticker Is literally $COWZ for cashcows
COWZ, an ETF that ranks its holdings based on a free cashflow screen. GRN, a carbon credit ETF. RJI, and RJA, two commodities ETFs.