Thoughts on the Portfolio’s Cash Position
We've got a prudent plan for the portfolio and using our cash holdings is part of it.
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Over the last few days, we’ve used the recent pain in the market to make several opportunistic buys, including just this morning. The net effect of those buys and our trimming of Lockheed Martin LMT shares puts the portfolio’s cash at just under 7.5% of its assets.
Our plan over the last several months has been to prudently position the portfolio for what’s ahead. As we made those moves and expected to make more of them like we have this week with Meta META and now Eaton ETN, we shared the possibility that we might eventually have to make some tough decisions about some of the portfolio’s holdings.
We’re not quite there yet, but should we choose to further grow the portfolio’s exposure to some of its newer holdings, we may need to raise additional cash to do so. The decision process for that will come down to owning the best-positioned companies with the right risk-to-reward tradeoff that can drive the portfolio’s returns. Inherent in that is EPS growth in the coming quarters that far outstrips that of the S&P 500.
One of the biggest mistakes we’ve seen others make is becoming emotional or too attached to a position “because…”. While we’re not perfect, we will do our best to tamp that down, letting data and context be our guides.
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At the time of publictaion, TheStreet Pro portfolio was long LMT, META and ETN.
