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Today's Letter

• ETFs that hit the sweet spot between Growth & Dividends.

• The GameStop Saga - Things just got weirder

• DWAC & Trump's Truth Social - Is it over?

• Top Meme Stocks

Investors,

Today I’ll get into the popular “growth x dividend” cross-over ETF... What are the benefits of allocating a portion of your portfolio to these income-generating investments? With the help of these funds, investors can purchase a multitude of dividend stocks in a single dividend ETF that contains a variety of holdings, rather than over-allocate capital into single positions then watching them frantically as they move up and down. Compared to managing individual dividend equities, these ETFs are simple and convenient investments, so instead of analyzing and researching numerous equities to have in your portfolio, you can simply pick the greatest dividend ETF that meets you needs.

These funds, particularly growth-oriented stocks, are typically less erratic than broad market indices and generate a consistent stream of income for investors. Additionally, and for the sake of any long-term investors sanity, they usually have less beta and volatility than single stock names.

The downside to growth x dividend ETFs is that investors have a lack of control over the selection of securities, just like with other ETFs or mutual funds. Typically, the dividend yield paid out by these funds is based on the average of all the underlying stock holdings and the fund's total average yield will decrease if any holdings in the portfolio cut dividend payments. It also comes with price risk where a drop in stock prices as a result of market conditions could be greater than dividend yields and result in a loss for the fund.

I’ve scoured dividend-specific and other ETF-investing forums to see which tickers were being talked about the most and I’ve compiled a full list of the funds…

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Without further ado, here is the list, ordered by dividend yield, and in descending order. Highlighted in RED are ETFs that have underperformed vs SPY year-to-date.

Dividend stocks and ETFs usually have the stereotype of being a more stable investment compared to singular names… but are they actually more “safe”. Here are a few things I can take in when looking at this list of names:

• ETFs where the holdings are large-cap and mega-cap dividend stocks have outperformed the markets, while more volatile small cap dividend stocks and higher yield ones have been a bit more volatile. This is an obvious case throughout the bear market where mega-cap and big-tech have been the last generals to fall.

• Following up from the point above, the out-performance of many names on this list also comes with a caveat, and that they will most likely under-perform in a big bull run.

• Similar to the market, small-cap and growth have been hammered while mega-caps have been resilient. The opposite may also be true when growth names show more opportunity to the upside than mega-caps do. It’s all about cycles.

• Some names on this list offer a very reasonable yield with the protection of owning an ETF and not single-named stocks. It also gives you exposure to the equities market while having the capability to generate income similar to a bond.

At the end of the day, anything to do with ETFs or dividends isn’t meant to be exciting, but allocating a portion of your portfolio to a “Growth x Dividend” fund might eliminate some of your downside risk and give you protection against a bear market. However, all this comes at the opportunity cost of reducing gains in a big bull run, so choose an ETF that may be right for your investing strategy.

The GameStop Saga - Things just got weirder

Nearly two years after the whole thing started, the GameStop Saga continues. GME sitting at an +800% 2-year return, and -25% YTD. So what's the latest-spilt tea?

Ryan Cohen, GameStop's chairman, has been known to be rather vocal on Twitter with leaving the occasional cryptic message for the Apes to decipher... but a new stone has been turned and uncovered in the latest news that just dropped this weekend. It seems Ryan Cohen has started his own kids book company that is now curating children's books with even more cryptic messages about GameStop's future. Here's what we've been able to dig up.

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The Summary

Ryan Cohen's Twitter description has changed to "The Book King" and has linked to the Teddy books as his pinned tweets.

Internet sleuths are suggesting that the "children books" all have meaning and all have something related to GameStop and the shares being shorted. I'm sure more will be uncovered in the coming days and weeks, but what do you all think? Here are the titles of the books.

• Teddy and the Piggy Banks

• Teddy goes to China

• Teddy and Words Can Never Hurt You

• Teddy and The People Who Make The World Go Round

• Teddy Goes To Work

This is a stretch, but also crazy... I'll keep you updated if anything new arises.

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DWAC & Trump's Truth Social - Is it over?

This weekend Elon Musk made a Tweet asking all of Twitter if they think Trump's account should be re-instated. Here are the results:

Seems like Trump is going to stay loyal to his current platform, Truth Social... but will this revival of Twitter under Elon's wing mean the end for DWAC and the Truth Social platform? It's possible as not many platforms have been able to match the performance and growth of any of the existing social media platforms (Facebook, Insta, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, et al). First mover advantage is a real thing and makes you sticky.

Meme stock sentiment for DWAC on WallStreetBets has been very bearish over the last few months, a rare occurrence to see this many people constantly talking shit about a stock... Interesting. DWAC is down 60% YTD, but down 80% from the peak earlier this year.

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What else was trending this week?

• Nvidia (NVDA)

• Walmart (WMT)

• Apple (AAPL)

• DWAC

• PPI (inflation)

• CPI (inflation)

• CORN (bitcoin)

• Amazon (AMZN)

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