107 - Investing Goals for 2021

Mental Models discussed in this podcast: Goals and Habits Concentration vs Diversification Signal vs Noise Please review and rate the podcast If you enjoyed this podcast and found it helpful, please consider leaving me a rating and review. Your feedback helps me to improve the podcast and grow the show's audience.  Follow me on Twitter and YouTube Twitter Handle: @TreyHenninger YouTube Channel: DIY Investing Support the Podcast on Patreon This is a podcast supported by listeners like you. If you’d like to support this podcast and help me to continue creating great investing content, please consider becoming a Patron at DIYInvesting.org/Patron. Show Outline The full show notes for this episode are available at https://www.diyinvesting.org/Episode107 2021 Investing Goals Identify 2 new companies worthy of holding a 20% position in my portfolio Actually, build those new 10-20% positions by selling out of 2 of my current holdings. (I have already identified which ones to sell) Become more comfortable with high levels of concentration. My current largest holding is 35% of my portfolio. It's grown to this size from 20% and if all goes as I expect, it will likely continue to grow as a percentage of the portfolio. I need to become comfortable with 50% of my portfolio in a single stock if that company earns it through business performance.  I may also sell 2 of my current positions before I have found the two new positions. Consequently, I need to tolerate holding less than 5 stocks for part of the year. Earn a 20% annual return for the year 2021. I earned a return of 22% in 2020, beating the S&P; 500 by 3.7%.  Read my full annual letter here.  I believe I can match or exceed that return again this year. My discount rate is 10%, but that is used solely for the fundamental analysis portion of my stock analysis. With the current setup of my portfolio companies, I am often seeking 10% of the cash flows of the business, and an additional 10%+ from multiple expansion. I am optimistic that I can achieve this rate of return and perhaps substantially exceed it due to the types of companies I currently hold. We'll see how that comes to fruition. This is clearly an inferior goal as it is results based instead of process-based. I'm simply documenting it s that I have it as a reminder. 2021 Business Goals Pass the Series 65 Exam Needed to become a Registered Investment Advisor Will allow me to take on clients interested in me managing their portfolio. If you'd like information about this and are perhaps interested in joining a waitlist, you can reach out for my information at my email: trey [at] diyinvesting.org Marketing Goals: 5,000 Twitter Followers (Currently just over 2k) 1,000 YouTube Subscribers (Currently just over 300) At least 1 outside investing client Useful research goals: Screen X number of companies this year (Say 100) Write-up 12 companies this year Read a 10k a day or a 10k a week, etc... Goals I will no longer pursue It used to be my goal during 2020 to move to only checking stock prices once a week.  Going forward, I will no longer have that as a goal. I have found that my focus on illiquid stocks means that I'm often monitoring stocks frequently because it takes a long time to build a stock position. If I had completed that prior goal, my results would have been worse.   Summary: In this episode, I outline my top investing goals for the new year. I aim to identify 2 new companies worth buying and my goal is to attain a 20%+ annual return for 2021. I also cover process-based goals relating to how to go about investing research. Finally, I would like to pass the Series 65 exam so that I can begin managing money for outside clients.