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Sign into your accountLet's Invest: A Look at Real Estate Stock
July 31 2014
There is a small percentage of Americans who pay their bills, fully fund their 401K, fully fund their child's education fund, and still have a bit left over. That extra money needs to go into non-sheltered savings accounts. Where do you invest?
Perhaps the safest place for the money would be in a government savings bond. I checked today, and depending on the term of the bond, you might get about 1% interest on your money. If I invest $10,000 at 1%, after 10 years I will have a whopping $11,051.25.
Because interest rates are so low, it may make more sense to invest in the stock market. The Dow Jones yield in 2013 was 26.5%. Moreover, if invested in an index like the Dow Jones Industrial average, there was a 2.07% dividend. In other words, investing in the stock market in 2013 would blow away the earnings in a savings bond. Even the dividend alone is double!
Suffice it to say, smart money is in the stock market. I use the term "smart money" loosely. There are 30 companies in the Dow Jones. 3M does $30B in sales and earns $6.7B. Microsoft does $77B in sales and earns $8.4B. But the truth is, I really don't know those companies. I know real estate technology companies – Z, TRLA, CLGX, MOVE. Here is how they stack up.
So, if I am still trying to be that smart money investor and I look at these four stocks, using the Dow as my guidepost – I but CLGX – CoreLogic – They are the only company with earnings. The company losing the most is TRLA. The company losing the least is MOVE.
