Rambling On Investing -- July 25, 2023

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Right now there are three leaders in three different sectors, and some might argue their lead is insurmountable in the short- to mid-term:

• EV charging and large scale utility batteries: Tesla.
• Blades: Nvidia. 
• Chip design: Apple. 

Let's expand that list, but I'm less sure of the following than the above. But for discussion:

• retail, brick and mortar: Walmart
• banking: JPMorgan
• big oil: Chevron
• little oil: Devon
• capital preservation: BRK
• US trucking: Daimler
• US fast food: McDonalds 
  

That would give one a portfolio of "ten." Even less sure:

• utility: SRE
• rail (not owned by BRK): UNP
• US agriculture: Deere
• US infrastructure: CAT
• chip manufacturing: TSM
  

That's "fifteen." I think TSM could be moved to one of the top three or top ten.

A few more, even less sure. These are (currently) top in their sectors, but the sectors are lousy sectors to be in or very, very crowded sectors or sectors about which I know very little or very hard to predict:

• streaming, entertainment: Netflix
• payments: Visa 
• social media: Meta
  
• cloud/associated: Microsoft
• caffeine: Starbucks
  

So, there we have a portfolio of 20 blue-chip, big cap stocks, with an exception or two.

For mid-cap and small-cap, I have no idea.

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