WBA

HolteyFinancial

Well Tuna I am a professional, I give advice for a living (obviously you wouldn’t want to be one of my clients) …. The reason you buy the index is because it is self-regulating, if a company is not performing it will be replaced with a new company. You are right you can’t expect them to perform into the future, but if they don’t then some other small cap or mid cap firm will take their place. Hence why WBA just got booted out of the index and WDAY was added, WBA performance has sucked WDAY has been great. So by buying the index, it is rebalanced and set up to buy the winners and sell the losers. I’ve spent years researching diworsfication and it’s most certainly a thing. Morale of the story is my boy Mostr10 is doing great and would be better served buying SPY, SPTM, QQQ, XLK over the long term. No international index fund is gonna beat that and to be honest international funds are correlated to the US markets anyways… if the US is down 4 the EU is down 8, etc. I don’t see the benefit of buying international index for diversification when they are all correlated. We are also talking about a 25 year old here, who probably wants simplicity and is looking to accumulate and build up his portfolio. There is no need to “diversify” to international right now. Maybe could make the case if we are talking about millions to diversify to other asset classes to preserve wealth but in this situation we are trying to accumulate it, so stick to the best of the best funds out there, which historically have been SPY, SPTM, QQQ, XLK We can agree to disagree Tuna 🍣 I be curious what your advice for Mostr10 would be?

HolteyFinancial

Well Tuna I am a professional, I give advice for a living (obviously you wouldn’t want to be one of my clients) …. The reason you buy the index is because it is self-regulating, if a company is not performing it will be replaced with a new company. You are right you can’t expect them to perform into the future, but if they don’t then some other small cap or mid cap firm will take their place. Hence why WBA just got booted out of the index and WDAY was added, WBA performance has sucked WDAY has been great. So by buying the index, it is rebalanced and set up to buy the winners and sell the losers. I’ve spent years researching diworsfication and it’s most certainly a thing. Morale of the story is my boy Mostr10 is doing great and would be better served buying SPY, SPTM, QQQ, XLK over the long term. No international index fund is gonna beat that and to be honest international funds are correlated to the US markets anyways… if the US is down 4 the EU is down 8, etc. I don’t see the benefit of buying international index for diversification when they are all correlated. We are also talking about a 25 year old here, who probably wants simplicity and is looking to accumulate and build up his portfolio. There is no need to “diversify” to international right now. Maybe could make the case if we are talking about millions to diversify to other asset classes to preserve wealth but in this situation we are trying to accumulate it, so stick to the best of the best funds out there, which historically have been SPY, SPTM, QQQ, XLK We can agree to disagree Tuna 🍣 I be curious what your advice for Mostr10 would be?

Just_call_me_Face

It's really 50/50 on whether they bring on the right person for CEO.. It'll rebound on good news, but if they keep dragging their feet to choose the wrong person INTC is going to be the next WBA

Straight_Turnip7056

Sorry, to give you a disappointing news. But there's no ceremony like the hunger games, when a stock drops out of index, or a new one replaces it. Index rejig happens usually Friday after hours, and takes effect on the following Monday. You can expect high volumes on those Fridays and Mondays. But sorry again, there's no live TV show or website portal for that. And, Santa isn't real too. Sorry. Paste from Wikipedia, to show you that it's quite routine exercise. Nothing to see here! On March 18, Linde replaced Splunk. On June 24, Arm Holdings replaced Sirius XM as company failed to meet minimum standards. On July 22, Supermicro replaced Walgreens Boots Alliance as WBA no longer met minimum weighting standards. On November 18, AppLovin replaced Dollar Tree as Dollar Tree no longer met minimum weighting standards.

LilPrinceTrashMouth

Anybody bullish on WBA? I have it on good authority that they’re gonna make an announcement about divesting from some of their unprofitable holdings. Stonk go up? Surely this is the bottom, right? 👀

Competitive_Oil_6599

Dude it is not equity it is futures. It is a little different than what you read on Thetagang and I do trade. I am at about 58k a month. I don't do what the discussed above person does but I definitely don't do one trick pony stuff on just the right stock in the market like NVDA which has become a meme, is just a broker, and is a $2 book value where even WBA is a liquidation book value of $15 trading at $9. It sounds like you have been burned and so have I. But I am not averse to learning more and picking up what I can to diversify my strategies. Sorry for your brain explosion. And wtf cares about how old a thread is except people grabbing at straws. There are lots of old books written by humans just like us and no better we can all learn from da.

Roadrunner44143

I just made a quick 20% on these puts and got out. So from now on I’m wishing you luck on WBA 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

Caloric_Recycling

RKLB up, WBA down. I'm geenus I tell ya, geenus!

greenpride32

O reports their occupancy percentage each quarter and even keeps the historical chart on their website. [https://www.realtyincome.com/our-portfolio/portfolio-diversification-overview](https://www.realtyincome.com/our-portfolio/portfolio-diversification-overview) As you can see, it took it's biggest dip during the "financial crisis" of 2008-2010. But even then it only went down to 96.6%. Many retailers have come and gone during the length of that chart. It even covers the "amazon era" and growth of e-commerce - so much for the death of brick and mortar. Diversification of clients is the key. Also agree WBA is failing, but DG is far from it.

KawasakiFever223

WBA 7.5 leaps

Competitive_Angle883

WBA puts next month expiration🤞🏽

Drclayboobs

Yeah shorting a stock that has hit a double bottom already isn’t what I’m doing…. WBA has bottomed and with the S&P valuations at all time highs, WBA is undervalued about 80% compared with the rest of the S&P. You pray for a bankruptcy or removal, I’ll wait for a normalization in Value. XOM got removed from the Dow in 2020 when it hit $32 now it’s $120 ish. WBA will likely do something similar over 4 years

Roadrunner44143

Already replied to the same question, but basically because: - WBA is already trading at an all time low - expiry is already in January - I don’t want to crash my portfolio at the end of the year - S&P removal won’t always lead to 5-10% decrease

Caloric_Recycling

On Friday the news will drop that WBA moves from the SP500 right into the trash where it belongs.

floppy_panoos

Swing WBA back to $20 with me and collect a $0.25 dividend while we wait. Double-bottom just put in last week along with extending Bullish Divergence.

floppy_panoos

There are "deals" out there, depending on your time horizon and risk tolerance. Actually, TGT is at a GREAT price right now (which typically doesn't last long). I'm not "investing" at the moment but am swinging PARA and WBA. Looking for entries into KSS too because despite what everyone is saying, interest rates ARE going back to near-zero again and within the next year. And when they do, WBA and KSS will be right there refinancing their debt and finding Billions in the couch cushions in their 2025 Q3 or Q4 earnings.

Butteritto

Should have been shorting WBA, SAVE, SMCI, INTEL, MU.. tons of stocks. But NVDA?? You have some huge balls for holding so long lol

Entropope

I'm sorry to use "sq" word. People are sensitive about that. But just look at WBA. Do you think it's going bankrupt? If not, what do you think is going to happen? Come on, roast me if you like to.

Samjabr

bro, im thinking of buying a crap ton of WBA

DoNotBanhMi

GTFOH... WBA is down 60% this year. You don’t make that up on dividends and covered calls. Also, $50 calls have no premium when the stock is $20 like it was earlier this year. Go LARP somewhere else. You’ve had these shares for a maybe week because you found r/thetagang and think “wheeling” is gonna make you rich.

nogizako

I’ve done something similar with selling Costco covered calls the past five years but then all of a sudden the prices went up and I had to buy them and lost quite a bit :( do you have a strategy on how to avoid that for WBA?

fuglysc

If you bought recently why are you making it out like you've been making 250k+ on dividends and covered calls for years...just admit you bought recently and plan to sell covered calls...no idea how you going to make 150k on covered calls when they're so dirt cheap...and you best pray they don't keep cutting dividend or get rid of it altogether "WBA does more revenue than NVDA"...lol...you're not just comparing apples and oranges....you're comparing a Ferrari to a car that has 300k on the odometer whose engine may or may not start when you want to drive it...no use having all that revenue when your margin is 1%

TheFailologist

I don't disagree on its pitifully low P/E but why not have your strategy on something that has positive sentiment like VICI? Hell, even F looks like a better bet than WBA.

xtravar

Yep, I was in to WBA for a year and lost money. I gave up. They need more memes.

pac1919

Well, coincidentally, I also bought WBA last week. For largely the same reason you describe. Thus far it has not proven fruitful.

Drclayboobs

I have been selling $12.50 and $15 calls about 1 year out when WBA has a random up day… dividend pays about $1 a year and I can get another $1 for those calls it’s not crazy money, but it’s easy, and I think WBA is pretty bottomed out. So I’m happy to rinse and repeat for a few years if it stays rangebound

Drclayboobs

Yeah there is mostly only bad news for WBA but they have a new CEO, they are closing all the stores that are losing money because of theft and looting which will be immediately accretive to earnings over the next 2 years. I guess I just don’t think WBA is going to 0, I think it’s more likely to rebound to $15-20

Drclayboobs

Basically I think is really oversold and heavily shorted. Future P/E is 5 compared to an average s&p 500 stock of 20. So roughly trading at 25% valuations of other companies. WBA does more revenue than NVDA per quarter and almost as much eps. 7B market cap vs 3.5T market cap. It’s not apples to apples obviously… but I thinking nvda is overvalued and wba is undervalued

Drclayboobs

In general I’m a contrarian investor. For example I bought all oil stocks in 2020 after oil went $-40/barrell. But for WBA specifically they pay a 12% dividend, they have a future P/E ratio if about 4-5 whereas an average S&P 500 stock is about 20-22. So I just think they are undervalued. They have lost 90% of their market cap in the last 5 years. Companies that do 140B in revenue and make $2/share per year don’t go bankrupt, even if their debt is high. I also think dividend stocks will rally once fed rates get back down to 2-3%. Money market accounts still make nearly 4.7% with 0 risk. But once it’s 2% people will be looking for stocks for yield over the next 2-3 years IMO

pac1919

You’re only down 8% on WBA so that must mean you bought it very recently. So I have to ask… why?

romeo-bravo-delta

WBA is so far off my radar I immediately thought of Cameron Brink.

SalemKinkTrials

It's been about a week and I haven't heard the ticker WBA in here maybe everyone has accepted Walgreen's inevitable doom?

Samjabr

Is it just me or does WBA look like a ridiculous deal? $7 billion market cap - $150 billion revenue!!! 12% yield. They are closing underperforming stores and now that Trump is president, they won't have to lock up chewing gun behind plastic screens.

IntentionDeep651

Ok Iam going to do same with WBA once it drops to 2$ and start selling weed in their stores

abrahamlincoln20

Dunno, probably those stores weren't making a profit anyway. Analysts are estimating WBA will make around 1.5 eps next year. That would be more than enough to keep the dividend alive.

notreallydeep

There are many other stocks with a 10% yield that have a brighter future than WBA.

GoZukkYourself

They have a PBM at least, but AMZN is going to end up killing both WBA and CVS.

NotSoTough-Tony

HOOD rats ready to loot  Puts on WBA TGT WMT NKE M

AsgardWarship

Curse of the Dow refers to superstition that stocks that are added to the Dow Industrial Average underperform the stock that they replace. AMZN replaced WBA in the Dow earlier this year. AMZN: Up 12% WBA: Down 54%

lankystankyleg

GE was dropped from the Dow in 2018 and replaced by WBA… just saying

gov12

Short term, its a coin flip. Long term, it means nothing. GE was replaced, continued to drop another 50% chop around, and now is up 3X from when it was taken out. WBA replaced GE and is now over 75%

Frightrain

There is very strong support at the 55 and 52 dollar levels. We did have a minor dip below 55 recently, but this was a buying opportunity as far as I'm concerned. The last time the stock was below 55 (other than earlier this year) was in 2019. The last time the stock closed below 51.70 was in 2013. My average cost is around 54. If I see a close below 51.70 I will be 100% out of my position and looking to go short if we get a single close below 50. There is very little support below 50 and I am looking to target the 30 dollar range. So, in my opinion, this is the wrong time to be selling shares and you might as well wait unless you desperately need the money. Assuming you put a stop somewhere around 50 \~ 52 (which I highly advise), you are only risking a few dollars per share from the current price. However, the potential upside is upwards of 100%. If this thing breaks support though it's going into freefall and I imagine the chart will end up looking something like WBA. So please sell and take your profits in this case.

Alwaysnthered

EL the next WBA. Share price could half from here.

NotSoTough-Tony

The Real Thot Housewives Of Hinsdale picking up their STD medication at WBA in downtown Hinsdale 

Digitlnoize

It’s just money. You still have $24k. Just 100% shares a few times and your money is back. My advice: Watch some fucking mainstream stocks that are “too big to fail”. Shit like Intel, Target, Starbucks, CVS, Nike. Yes, these companies have their problems, but they’ll be fine. Catch the turn around. SHARES ONLY. You’ll be fine. Look for shit that’s multiple standard deviations below its long term moving average. Z score is your friend. Use longer time frames (weekly even monthly) and be patient. You’re looking for big long term slow moves here. I caught the TGT bottom at $100 and rode it up to $175. WBA/CVS, NKE, INTC probably gonna do similar shit. Easy to catch 1-2 per year that gain 50-100% on shares. One will get you back to almost 50k. Two to 100k. Three to 200k. Four to 400k. Just don’t yolo on short dated options ever.

NotSoTough-Tony

If 🥭 wins, NKE WMT TGT M CVS WBA getting looted If 🥭 loses NKE WMT TGT M CVS WBA getting looted Puts on NKE WMT TGT M CVS WBA

TeachMeSumthn

Only move rn for me is some puts on WBA

Pretend-Durian9189

$MBGAF $WBA extremely good value rn 

diamanthaende

Imagine being a WBA shareholder. The share price is now down to a level not seen since 1996. Imagine holding a stock for almost 30 years with zero gains!  Since its ATH in 2015, the share price has gone down by 90%!

diamanthaende

>Walmart ([WMT](https://www.finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT)) announced Tuesday it will offer same-day prescription delivery services in six states, with a plan to roll out to all 49 states in which it operates a pharmacy in by January. >The move brings Walmart into the competitive field of online pharmacies and same-day retail deliveries, with players like Amazon ([AMZN](https://www.finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN)) Pharmacy, Walgreens ([WBA](https://www.finance.yahoo.com/quote/WBA)), and CVS ([CVS](https://www.finance.yahoo.com/quote/CVS)). CVS and especially Walgreens are so very dead. Giants like Walmart and Amazon disrupting their core business, what is actually left for them?

GoZukkYourself

I doubt WBA is still around in 2030.

bak2skewl

WBA

Vitriolic_III

WBA

bak2skewl

WBA

rogocop34

WBA

Juicebo-x

WBA. They’ve gone so downhill. I tried walking into Walgreens the other day and they had one teenager for the whole store.

Bulky-Gene7667

Shit you got fucked sideways.  Sometimes I gamble on this, but never more than 25% of portfolio, and I mash that shit into degenerate shit people hate like WBA. 

whoisjohngalt72

Dead money. Long homeless short WBA

Legitimate-Source-61

So you are basically investing in Hubert. The customer of WBA. Is there a future in that? Do WBA sell cruises tripd or Jagaur F-Paces?

Tejon_Melero

WBA closed their store in the Gamer Word Can't Say building in Manhattan. Closing huge stores is usually not great. They are clowns and are clearly downsized in their higher level counsel positions. They don't trigger insurance when they should, like they don't have it. They are 1) saving tons of money on purpose cutting back for the shares! Or 2) melting down and buying their various pharmacies isn't working and they are rolling up stores because broke.

DaneDan99

What does $WBA do again?

YusoLOCO

I can explain it shorter than that: WBA i currently loosing money... And paying 10% dividend yield, sooo puts?

2to1000

Anyone have an opinion on WBA? Seems like a low risk proposition from here

2to1000

I like buying WBA. Think it’s high reward/risk proposition from here. Still profitable and working past its mistakes

Educational_Tea_9929

Long calls on WBA?

miromar65

WBA

ranjithd

WBA

AlarmingAd2445

Where’s that guy who bought a shitload if WBA?!?

leomeng

Any hopes in a WBA squeeze ? It’s so incredibly suppressed and finally taking bold action

bak2skewl

same brother. somehow my portfolio grew to 35% WBA. Im not mad.

Samjabr

up $1000s on my ANF and WBA plays - unfortunately, between Biden and that shitty Europoor semi-company, my NVDA positions made me go blood red.

Right_Traffic_4821

Mods put LEU and LUNR and WBA on the board so we can have some green, please.

Spectacl323

WBA - Walgreens looks like she wants more 

Bulky-Gene7667

Been holding since Aug 28th. Averaged share down to $9.85 at 485 shares. It's a couple k gamble, but I told my wife and her boyfriend about this insane muther fucker that chucked 250k at WBA.  Your the best,  not like that simp Micheal Burry

Recent-Cookie-6350

WBA killing it bro

Plus_Seesaw2023

I'm not looking to catch tops or bottoms! I made +30% on AAPL. I'm really happy, because I had put 25% of my portfolio there. With the money and the profit, I was able to buy CVS, WBA, CSCO UPS KHC F INTC NKE.

drew-gen-x

I nice 14% pop up for $WBA this morning. I'm finally in the green after BTD in Walgreens.

Spectacl323

Ah yes. Rotation of NVDA AI trade into Walgreens/WBA was definitely something I predicted 

NaluknengBalong_0918

Whoever betted on WBA… congrats…

404abe

got out way too early in WBA

unwanted_hair

Was thinking calls on WBA and bought NVDA instead. Motherfcker.

GoZukkYourself

Another 1,200 store closures for WBA. I wonder if they will still be around at the end of the decade.

Venusflytraphands

WBA is hitting. Thanks to whoever posted yesterday.

mannycalls24

WBA literally went down for 7 years straight

miromar65

Holy WBA

JohnPaulJ_

How do y’all feel about WBA (Walgreens)?

JohnPaulJ_

I’m confused, why are people buying WBA?

Samjabr

WBA seemed like a no brainer. Brrrr